Reviews

Diego Santanelli: Resilience

Canale Díaz Art Center - Coral Gables
Curated by Raisa Clavijo

By Jill Thayer

“My work is precisely the result of that interaction between the artist and the medium with which he works, between the individual and the world that surrounds him. Through this gesture, I attempt to recount my personal story, presenting it [...]

L’Oeil Phénomène

Vasarely Foundation - Aix-en-Provence, France
By Raisa Clavijo
“L’ Oeil Phénomène” (The Eye Phenomenon) at the Vasarely Foundation revolves around the legacy of GRAV (Group de Recherches d’Art Visuel) and its influence on contemporary art. The exhibition assembles works by Horacio García Rossi, Julio Le Parc, François Morellet, Francisco Sobrino, Joël Stein and Jean-Pierre Yvaral. [...]

Ed Moses

Ed Moses: Drawings from the 1960s and 70s
Los Angeles County  Museum of Art

Now and Then
William Turner Gallery - Santa Monica, CA.

By Megan Abrahams
Ed Moses: A Los Angeles Icon

Terror is my driving force. Paint is the medium.
Ed Moses, September 2014

If art appreciation has something in common with detective work, early in his career, [...]

Summer Wheat: Walk-in Pantry

Fridman Gallery - New York
By Owen Duffy
Summer Wheat continually experiments with what painting can do, what it can become, and the narratives that have constructed its grand tradition. For her most recent endeavor at Fridman Gallery, “Walk-in Pantry,” Wheat created what amounts to art historical parafiction-with, as art historian Carrie Lambert-Beatty would say, [...]

Behind the Wall. 12th Havana Biennial

Curated by Juan Delgado Calzadilla

By Noel Smith

“Detrás del Muro (Behind the Wall),” the installation of public art works on the Havana Malecón, was one of the most appealing and accomplished projects of the recent 12th Havana Biennial. Curatorially, the variety and quality of works and the poetics of their placement on [...]

Bienal de las Fronteras (Biennial of the Frontiers)

Museum of Contemporary Art of Tamaulipas - Matamoros, Mexico
By Leslie Moody Castro
Matamoros, Mexico, is the most unlikely of places to travel to see and witness the shaping of an annual international exhibition of contemporary art. There are many layers to the complexity of the Bienal de las Fronteras, the inaugural biennial that took [...]

Laura Krifka: Reap the Whirlwind

CB1 Gallery - Los Angeles
By Megan Abrahams
In her new exhibit of recent paintings, sculpture, film and video, Laura Krifka makes an unrestrained inquiry into human behavior, psychology, death, violence and sexuality without flinching. Among the range of media presented, the paintings dominate with their intensity, scale and drama. In them, gripping-and at times [...]

Ron Johnson: Unboxed

Reynolds Gallery - Richmond, VA
By Owen Duffy
Over the past decade, Ron Johnson has driven out west almost every summer. He leaves his Richmond home, with no particular destination in mind, in search of big skies and bigger views. Registering the subtle topographical changes over time-how the land gradually morphs from plains to foothills [...]

Shana Kaplow: A Coterie of Chairs

Rosalux Gallery - Minneapolis
By Christina Schmid
Fifty-seven works on paper, assembled in a horizontal series, wrap around three walls of Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis, interrupted only by two black-and-white projections. The sequence begins in pale, barely visible marks before inky black lines gather into recognizable structures: a coterie of chairs, from plastic molded to [...]

Monika Bravo

NC Arte - Bogotá
Curated by Beatriz López

URUMU: Origin and Cycle of Art and Life.

By Caridad Botella
As if it were the pointing finger of an ancient cicerone, Monika Bravo’s (Colombia, 1964) project URUMU at NC Arte (Bogotá) invites us to reflect upon the ideas of origin and cycle both in art and life. Bravo’s [...]