Reviews
Lucy Skaer: Available Fonts
KW Institute for Contemporary Art - Berlin, Germany
Curated by Anna Gritz
By Lydia Magyar
Confounding re-contextualizations and hybridizations are now expected from artist Lucy Skaer. In 2000, as a transient public intervention, Skaer left a scorpion and a diamond together on an Amsterdam sidewalk. In 2003, Skaer hid moth pupae and butterfly pupae in the [...]
Living Theatre
Casa Morra - Naples, Italy
By Santa Nastro
Casa Morra was born in the volcanic mind of Giuseppe Morra. A former gallerist, collector and Maecenas of many artists, Morra founded a museum dedicated to Hermann Nitsch. In 2016 he started this new project. The space, in a superb 18th-century palace in Naples, Italy, hosts a [...]
Lin Tianmiao: Protruding Patterns
Galerie Lelong - New York
By Taliesin Thomas
This fall New York City is host to several significant exhibitions of contemporary Chinese art, including Lin Tianmiao’s (b. 1961) solo show “Protruding Patterns” at Galerie Lelong. Lin is one of the distinguished stars of her generation and her art consistently invites a range of interpretations-from ‘handicraft-based’ [...]
Johan Wahlstrom: Distorted Happiness
George Bergès Gallery - New York
By Paul Laster
A rock musician turned artist, Johan Wahlstrom makes energetic paintings that blur the boundary between abstraction and figuration. Taking one of his own 2015 paintings of crowds of people seen from the performance stage as the point of departure, his solo show “Distorted Happiness” at George [...]
An Archive of the Future: Iyapo Repository
Law Warschaw Gallery - St. Paul, MN
Curated by Jehra Patrick
By Christina Schmid
Iyapo Repository, an ongoing project in residence at Macalester College’s Law Warschaw gallery in St. Paul, invites participation in creating an archive of the future. Envisioned by two New York based artists, Ayodamola Okunseinde and Salome Asega, Iyapo Repository pays homage to [...]
Hansel & Gretel
Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Ai Weiwei
Park Avenue Armory - New York
By Taliesin Thomas
In the classic fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, the young male protagonist leaves a trail of bread crumbs in the forest as means for him and his sister to return home. This attempt to outwit their cruel stepmother-who convinced their [...]
Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern
Brooklyn Museum - New York
By Taliesin Thomas
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887 - 1986) is widely recognized as the stoic ‘Mother of American modernism,’ the unabashed creator of sensual female genitalia-inspired paintings, the lover to her mentor and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz, and in her later years, a recluse cloistered in the Southwest. Despite all her [...]
Maggie Mullin O’Hara - I’m Trying To Tell You
Telfair Museums/Jepson Center - Savannah GA
By Todd Schroeder
Piled in a corner of Maggie Mullin O’Hara’s persuasive and conspicuous exhibition (”I’m Trying To Tell You”) is the sculptural assemblage This Is My Nowhere, a sweep of 13 mismatched television sets from the 1990s-as if a collection of discarded relics, plucked from such places of distinction [...]
Fold Unfold
Lyndon House Arts Center - Athens, GA.
Curated by Jessica Smith and Susan Falls
By Dianne Totten
The Lyndon House Arts Center (Ware-Lyndon House, built circa 1840) in Athens, GA was the perfect setting for the “Fold Unfold” exhibition. The installation culminated after a long period of research on Southern coverlets, supported by a Craft Research [...]
Ramiro Llona
The Americas Collection - Miami
By Raisa Clavijo
The Americas Collection late last year presented a selection of canvases by the Peruvian artist Ramiro Llona, all of which were created within the last decade. Parallel to the exhibition in Miami, two expositions were presented in Lima: “El lugar de la pintura” at the Museo de [...]
