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 [...]
Industry City - Brooklyn, New York
By Stephen Truax
“Come Together: Surviving Sandy“ is the largest independently organized exhibition in New York in recent memory. It was organized by Phong Bui, an artist as well as the founder, and publisher of the Brooklyn Rail. Bui’s studio was tragically submerged during Hurricane Sandy and he lost [...]
Ana Cristea Gallery - New York
By Stephen Truax
Ana Cristea, New York, is in Chelsea, but this show looks straight out of Bridgehampton. Literally, a summer show of beach and leisure scenes.
“Regional,” bad and provisional paintings have become unmistakable markers of contemporary art. This, I propose, is precisely the content underneath James Viscardi’s deceptively [...]
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 [...]
NURTUREart - New York
Curated by Marco Antonini
By Stephen Truax
“Can art really be free?” asked Marco Antonini, gallery director of NURTUREart and organizer of the cleverly narrative title “…Is This Free?,” a three-part cumulative exhibition held from July 6 to August 31, 2012, that included more than 30 (both willing and unknowing) contributors who [...]
By Stephen Truax
One-hundred meters past the end of the platform behind the Hauptbahnhoff-a commuter tram station that used to be the central train station in Kassel, Germany, artist Susan Philipsz positioned her seven-channel sound installation, Study for Strings, (2012). By the same title, Study for Strings is a one-movement work composed by Pavel [...]
Whitney Museum of American Art - New York
The First Rule of the Biennial is You Don‘t Talk About the Biennial
By Stephen Truax
It’s impossible to write a straight review of the 2012 Whitney Biennial when it is being actively picketed. One must consider the political/economic context that may occlude any effective discourse or artistic [...]
Casey Kaplan - New York
By Stephen Truax
New York-based artist Matthew Brannon continued his development of bewilderingly obtuse fictional narratives (which inform his entire practice) in his latest exhibition at Casey Kaplan, New York. The viewer was led through a noir world of psychologically complex relationships by a group of interrelated works, including handmade [...]
