Reviews

KARMA

Duve Gallery - Berlin

Roxanne Jackson, High Priestess of the Fray

By Sarah Walko

“All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore,
or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.”
George Santayana

Doctors and healers know their treatments, procedures, recommendations, medicines and even their wisdom, help create [...]

Katherine Sandoz: Katniss

Telfair Museums/Jepson Center for the Arts - Savannah

By Robert Claiborne Morris

For this museum’s suspended sculpture, Savannah-based artist Katherine Sandoz found her subject four years ago in Pinpoint, Georgia. She was attending an early summer cookout in the small Southern town (which happens to come by its name honestly), when she noticed a [...]

Alexis Rockman: New Mexico Field Drawings

Sperone Westwater - New York

By Robert Claiborne Morris

Alexis Rockman’s show “New Mexico Field Drawings” at Sperone Westwater is a remarkable artistic, environmental and archeological exploration into the past and future.
It begins with some 75 works on paper arranged on a nearly 25- foot wall of creatures and plant life, some extinct, some [...]

Rebecca Louise Law: Community

Toledo Museum of Art - Toledo, Ohio

By Tim Hadfield

The Toledo Museum of Art is folded away with those other eminent museums in the formerly storied cities of Detroit, Cleveland, Erie and Buffalo–a string of gems thrown south around the neck of Lake Erie.
Advance publicity for British artist Rebecca Louise Law’s installation in [...]

Two Generations: Roberto Matta and Federica Matta

Rosenbaum Contemporary - Boca Raton

By Raisa Clavijo
A major exhibition of the works of the master Roberto Matta opened at the Rosenbaum Contemporary in Boca Raton at the end of March. The show, “Two Generations,” assembled the work of this artist and that of his daughter Federica, an author, painter and sculptor. [...]

Mario Bencomo: Visual Poetry

LnS Gallery - Miami

By Raisa Clavijo

Last spring, LnS Gallery presented “Visual Poetry,” a selection of works by Mario Bencomo, an artist residing in Miami. The series assembles an extensive collection of works in which he linked his particular visual language with the poetry of various authors who have been relevant to his [...]

Matt Magee

Phoenix Art Museum
By Paul Laster
A painter, sculptor and printmaker, Matt Magee has created his own visual belief system through the making of abstract, minimalist paintings and works on paper that explore systems, repetition and sequencing and the construction of surreal sculptures, which poetically blend elements from nature with manmade objects.
Magee was born in [...]

The Incomplete Araki: Sex, Life, and Death in the Works of Nobuyoshi Araki

Museum of Sex - New York
By Taliesin Thomas
I have long admired the lusty photographer Arākī (Nobuyoshi Araki, b. 1940) for his blatant erotica, yet in the wake of recent controversies lighting up the media and exposing deplorable male behaviors toward women, I had to reconsider my Araki affinity during a recent visit to [...]

RAMMΣLLZΣΣ: Racing for Thunder

Red Bull Arts New York - New York
Curated by Max Wolf and Carlo McCormick

By Taliesin Thomas

The artist known as Rammellzee-stylized RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ; written RAMM:ELL:ZEE; pronounced “Ram: Ell: Zee”-left a fantastical legacy of art, one that has been attracting greater notice in recent years. “RAMMΣLLZΣΣ: Racing for Thunder” at Red Bull Arts New York brought together [...]

Natural Proclivities

Shirley Fiterman Art Center - New York
Curated by Kim Power and Melanie Vote

By Peter Drake

“Natural Proclivities” represents creative responses to nature, “from growth to decay.” That’s a tall order, but this show delivers, and then some. Most artists who address nature in their work fall on one side of this spectrum [...]