Reviews
Espejo de Lidzie (Lidzie’s Looking Glass)
Diana Lowenstein Gallery - Miami
Curated by Marilyn Sampera
By Irina Leyva-Pérez
The work of Lidzie Alvisa (born 1969) has always being autobiographic. This is evident in her latest solo exhibition, and her first in Miami, “Espejo de Lidzie” (Lidzie’s Looking Glass), at Diana Lowenstein Gallery. The show brings together a selection of pieces from as [...]
Laura Nillni: No sé cuántas estrellas
Lélia Mordoch Gallery - Miami
A circumference on a chalkboard, a right triangle, a rhomb, are forms which we can fully intuit; the same held true with Ireneo for the tempestuous mane of a stallion, a herd of cattle in a pass, the ever-changing flame or the innumerable ash, the many faces of a [...]
Stephen Truax: How Will I Know
67 Ludlow Street - New York
Curated by Anne Luther
By Terence Trouillot
Stephen Truax’s “How Will I Know” is personal, hermetic, beautiful, erotic, touching and satisfyingly strange. The small exhibition, consisting simply of one recorded sound piece, two large photographs and six drawings, packs a dramatic punch and leaves the viewer in a constant state [...]
Fernell Franco: Cali claroscuro
Centro de la Imagen - Mexico City
Curated by Alexis Fabry and María Wills Londoño
By Irving Domínguez
“Fernell Franco: Cali claroscuro” sponsored by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain is the first retrospective show of the Colombian photographer in Mexico. The curating partnership of Alexis Fabry and María Wills Londoño decided to create an anthology [...]
Michiko Itatani: Starry Night Encounter
Linda Warren Projects - Chicago
By B. David Zarley
There is, above all else with Starry Night Encounter-with Michiko Itatani-a sense of continuity, an expansive, ever running and ever there cosmology, connected and demarcated with visible filaments born of a syringe and a steady but free hand, strung through by frozen ligaments, a complete concept [...]
Antonio Cortés Rolón – Éxodo
Galería Cidreña - Cidra, Puerto Rico
By Abdías Méndez Robles
“Art is a reflection of the world. If the world is horrible, the reflection in the mirror is horrible.”
Paul Verhoeven (1938)
Antonio Cortés Rolón lived like an emigrant during his stay in New York from 1983 to 1985, when he studied for a master’s degree [...]
Jacob Hashimoto: The First Known Map of the Moon
Mary Boone Gallery - New York
By Kim Power
Jacob Hashimoto found his niche early on in his artistic career. Hashimoto got his first big break with his massive solo installation Infinite Expanse of Sky (10,000 Kites) (1998), at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois, just two years after his graduation from the [...]
OSGEMEOS: Silence of the Music
Lehmann Maupin - New York
By Taliesin Thomas
I first saw the art of OSGEMEOS (Portuguese for ‘the twins’) while riding a rambling tourist bus down a far-flung street in Lisbon-a mural in a quiet neighborhood outside the city center. It was an oversized, mischievous figure that stretched across the side of an old brick [...]
Agnes Martin
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - New York
Decoding Agnes Martin
By Kim Power
Diogenes of Sinope (c. 412 - 323 B.C.) was fabled to have carried around a lantern in daylight. When questioned as to this practice, he replied he was looking for “an (honest) man.” Canadian born, American abstractionist, Agnes Martin (1992 [...]
Fritzia Irízar: Golden Green - Greening Gold
Arredondo \ Arozarena - Mexico City
By Othiana Roffiel
In her solo exhibition at Arredondo \ Arozarena, Mexican artist Fritzia Irízar creates a transnational corporation amidst the gallery. The work, through engaging mischievousness, spotlights something of the ethical controversies that lurk beneath the art market. Under the name “Golden Green - Greening Gold,” this fictitious [...]
