Reviews

Consuelo Castañeda: Recycle

Hardcore Art Contemporary Space - Miami
By Raisa Clavijo
For three months, Consuelo Castañeda’s project Recycle was exhibited at Hardcore Art Contemporary Space. This project constitutes a work in progress that began with Castañeda’s prior projects, such as For Rent (Americas Society, New York, 2011) and her contribution to “New Works Miami 2013″ (Miami Art [...]

Nina Dotti: Tipping Point

Dot FiftyOne - Miami
By Irina Leyva-Pérez
In “Tipping Point,” Nina Dotti continues working with two of her series, the scales and P.M.S. (Princess, Mother and Superwoman), and brings in a new element: gold as a reflection of happiness and success. The exhibition includes two series of photographs, two videos, collages, an installation and sculptures.
The [...]

Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years

Artists Space - New York
By Carla Acevedo-Yates
Inhabiting the interstices of fashion, publishing and art, Bernadette Corporation defies any conventional definitions and expectations held on the artist collective. It has become a mythical figure in New York City’s art scene, engendering the gallery Reena Spaulings and a crew of followers that is reminiscent of [...]

Archives of the Ephemeral: Ten Artistic Interventions in Nature

Universidad del Sagrado Corazón - San Juan, Puerto Rico
Curated by Laura Bravo
Organized by Fist_Art Foundation

By Irina Leyva-Pérez
Nature has always fascinated humans, first as a response to the symbiotic relationship between primal need and survival, and later becoming admiration. Art history is full of examples of artworks inspired by nature, including in a traditional manner such [...]

Mike Nudelman: Seeing Things

Thomas Robertello Gallery - Chicago
By Jeriah Hildwine
Chicago-based artists are regularly stereotyped as the modern-day embodiments of the city’s blue collar, working class history. It is an association eagerly seized upon by the self-described “city that works,” although one would be hard pressed to come up with any conclusive evidence that one city’s artists [...]

Federico Uribe: Painting on a Shoestring

Now Contemporary Art - Miami

Transforming Found Objects into Transformative Art
By Elisa Turner
For this artist, enough is almost never enough.
Federico Uribe plays with an impressively wide palette of colors and forms, primarily materials plucked from the clutter of daily life in the late 20th century and early 21st century. This mind-boggling [...]

Patricio Reig: Eden

Juan Ruiz Gallery - Miami
By Heike Dempster
The term ‘eden’ comes from Hebrew and refers to a ‘mental garden.’ Patricio Reig’s “Eden” is based upon this concept and therefore reflects not just on the physical place depicted in his work but also a state of mind and a quest for spiritual peace.
Reig’s work centers [...]

(Re-) Cycles of Paradise

LACE - Los Angeles
By Tucker Neel
“(Re-) Cycles of Paradise,” organized by the curatorial collective ARTPORT_making waves, presents visitors with works that address connections between conceptions of gender and climate change. At first glance the exhibition appears like a display room for inventive projects ready for prospective backers. Indeed, certain works use this to [...]

Happy Art: Andy DuCett’s “Why We Do This”

The Soap Factory - Minneapolis

By Christina Schmid
“Why We Do This” was an ostensibly charming show. Twelve thousand square feet of former soap factory, transformed into an intricate maze of three-dimensional vignettes, beckoned with a trip down memory lane: a painted Volkswagen bus, a beer-can studded bar, a period-perfect record store, next to thrift [...]

LOVE

One River Gallery - Englewood, New Jersey
Curated by Stephen Truax
By Tatiana Berg
“LOVE” feels devoid of a lot the hang-ups that are often applied when painting is discussed. An 11-artist show at the recently opened One River Gallery in Englewood, New Jersey, it surveys a certain kind of abstraction getting painted in Brooklyn today. Typified by [...]