Reviews
Dak’Art: Off In Africa
Various venues - Dakar, Senegal
By Nevdon Jamgochian
Dak’Art, in Dakar Senegal, is the biggest, arguably the first, and the longest-running biennale in Africa. The 2018 exhibition that ran from May 3rd to June 2nd was a glorious mess. It featured a jumble of art worth seeing with some wonderful surprises but still, it was [...]
Todd Schroeder: TRANCE
Laney Contemporary Fine Art - Savannah, Ga.
By Lisa Jaye Young
Todd Schroeder’s most recent exhibition of paintings at LANEY Contemporary Fine Art in Savannah is aptly named “TRANCE.” Paintings on canvas, newsprint and steel arrest the viewer in a visual and intellectual abeyance or conscious limbo of meaning construction. Figure and ground are [...]
The Annual Ipswich Biennial
Various locations, Ipswich, England
By Jonathan Field
The inaugural Annual Ipswich Biennial is an assembly of artworks, exhibitions, workshops, films and talks that took place throughout July and August 2018 in Ipswich, England. Set up by artists, the project was intended to appeal to both a specialty audience and a broader, curious public. The strong [...]
Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer
Denver Art Museum
Curated by John P. Lukavic
By Jeff Siemers
Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition “Like a Hammer” brings the topics of identity, time, race, heritage, popular culture and philosophical inquiry into play. The exhibition of approximately 57 works, curated by John P. Lukavic, the curator of Native Arts at the Denver Art Museum, integrates Gibson’s Choctaw [...]
Israel Guevara: Color + Geometry
ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries - Coral Gables, Miami
By Megan Abrahams
Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
Paul Gauguin
If there were a recipe for the bold, dynamic, hard-edged work of Israel Guevara, it would most likely have only two main ingredients: line and color, with the latter being the predominant flavor. Color [...]
Cesare Tacchi. A Retrospective
Palazzo delle Esposizioni - Rome
Curated by Daniela Lancioni and Ilaria Bernardi
By Santa Nastro
Four years have passed since Cesare Tacchi (1940- 2014) died. Last February, Rome organized a large retrospective of his work at Palazzo delle Esposizioni to pay an important tribute to the artist. Curated by Daniela Lancioni and Ilaria Bernardi, it featured a selection of [...]
Bruce Conner, Steve McQueen, Catherine Opie, Carag Thuring and Kelley Walker
Thomas Dane Gallery - Naples, Italy
By Santa Nastro
When Thomas Dane announced last fall his decision to open a new gallery in Italy, some may have been surprised that he didn’t choose Rome or Milan, but Naples, the beautiful city that was home to Virgilio, Benedetto Croce and many more, as well as the [...]
Willem de Rooij: Whiteout
KW Institute for Contemporary Art - Berlin, Germany
Curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen
“I feel a pleasure of never contained sweep over me,
now that I know place is never”1
- Laurie Sheck
By Lydia Magyar
Willem de Rooij’s “Whiteout,” curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen, draws focus to Ilulissat, a village in Greenland on Disko Bay. The exhibition presents [...]
Su Su: Recent Paintings
By Tim Hadfield
Originally from Beijing, China, where she studied undergraduate theater design, Su Su came to Pittsburgh for her graduate degree at Carnegie Mellon University in 2011. When her MFA program here enabled her to return to her first love of painting, she grasped the opportunity and never looked back.
This [...]
New Pictures: Omer Fast, Appendix
Minneapolis Institute of Art - Minneapolis, MN
Curated by Yasufumi Nakamuri
By Christina Schmid
“Appendix,” a three-part exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art curated by Yasufumi Nakamuri, sets two recent films by Omer Fast, Looking Pretty for God (2008) and August (2016), in dialogue with August Sander’s century-old photographs of German people: farmers, construction workers, [...]
