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A Building Portends the Future of Bushwick
Erik Sanko with one of his marionettes (all images courtesy the artist unless otherwise noted)The impetus for the Bushwick Open Studios weekend is the concept of the “open studio.” It’s an opportunity...
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Female Artists, Female Bodies
Rosalyn Drexler, “Self Portrait” (1964) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted)I was standing with a female painter friend in the Metropolitan Museum recently, in front of...
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Founded by Twin Artists, a Residency and Foundation Brightens Vietnam’s Art...
Thanh and Hai Le in the New Space Foundation office (All photos © Susan Silas, 2012)Last month I went to Vietnam, a place I have wanted to visit since the day the Vietnam War ended in 1975. For three...
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Sympathy for the Devil
Claudia Joskowicz, “Round and Round and Consumed by Fire” (2009), video still (all images courtesy the artist unless otherwise noted)Claudia Joskowicz is the master of the tracking shot. In her video...
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Finding Empathy in the Confines of Our Skin
Cynthia Lin, “CropB32910W firescar” (2010), ink on mylar, 50 x 34 in (all images courtesy Garis & Hahn unless otherwise noted)Two billion cells make up the skin encasing our bodies, and 300 million...
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The Kaleidoscopic Visions of Leslie Thornton
Leslie Thornton, still from “Luna” (2013) (All images courtesy of the artist)Artist Leslie Thornton describes the digital as the “repository of everything.” In “Luna” (2013), her new and seductive...
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A Bag Lady by Any Other Name
Mary Mattingly, “Life of Objects” (2013), chromogenic dye coupler print (via artsy.net)There are many dystopian futures out there. Mary Mattingly’s, recently on view at Robert Mann Gallery, is oddly...
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The Twilight Performance of an Aging Queen
Conrad Ventur, “MM#29″ (2012) (all images courtesy Participant Inc unless otherwise noted)MIAMI BEACH — Amidst the overabundance, overproduction, and overstimulation of the spectacle that is the Miami...
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A Look Inside Miami’s New Art Museum
The new Pérez Art Museum Miami (via pamm.org)MIAMI — On opening night, I dutifully parked my car in the Omni parking lot as instructed and got inside the double-decker bus that would take me five or so...
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Art Before Images
Carrie Yamaoka, “14.125 by 11.625 (black/white)” (2010), cast flexible urethane resin, mylar, and mixed media, 14.125 x 11.625 x 0.375 in (all images courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery)When you come across a...
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Thoughts on the Life and Art of Barbara DeGenevieve
Barbara DeGenevieve in a still from her video “Desperado” (all images © Barbara DeGenevieve, via degenevieve.com) If you go to the artist Barbara DeGenevieve’s website you will be greeted by laughter....
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A Painter Finds Depth in Flatness
Carl Ostendarp, “Charles Kynard” (2014) (all images courtesy the artist and Elizabeth Dee, New York, unless otherwise noted) “The world is flat.” So declared New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in...
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Artifice, Authorship, and the History of Photography
Laura Larson, “Chaise by Window” (1996) (all images courtesy Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.) Laura Larson’s current show of photographs at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. feels like a small museum retrospective. The...
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Conjuring the Anxiety of Domestic Spaces During War
Helene Kazan, “Masking Tape Intervention: Lebanon 1989” (all images courtesy the artist) I was introduced to the work of Helene Kazan when I walked into Momenta Art during a discussion for the...
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On Sexual Paintings and Shifting Images: An Interview with Joan Semmel
Joan Semmel, “Self-Portrait #4″ (2010) (courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York, © 2015 Joan Semmel / Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York)I have known about Joan Semmel for a long time. But...
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A Woman Artist Who Turns Pornography into Painting
Betty Tompkins, “Ersatz Cunt Painting #1” (2015) (all images courtesy the artist) When I was coming of age, I did not have access to explicit images of female or male genitalia. Those images existed in...
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The Larger-Than-Life Projections of a Modern-Day Artist Adventurer
Janet Biggs, “Duet” (2010) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) MIAMI BEACH — When I was much younger, I was obsessed with the writings of Ryszard Kapuściński. He was a journalist, yet not a...
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A Show of Over 100 Women Artists Offers Redress but No Resolution
Solange Pessoa, “Untitled” (2011–12) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) MIAMI — The exhibition of over 100 women artists currently on view at the Rubell Family...
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Altarpieces for the Digital Age
Installation view, Carla Gannis’s ‘Nude Descending a Staircase’ at Transfer gallery (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) Enter Transfer gallery and your entire field of vision is instantly taken up...
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Using Cameras to Commune with Nature
Linda Tegg, “Cameratrap Fawn” (2015) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) In the late 1970s I met the photographer Frederick Sommer. He was then in his 80s. During a...
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