Tag: review
Review~ Invisible Hand at Beefhaus
Ryder Richards at Beefhaus, Dallas Glasstire.com by Colette Copeland, 21 Oct 2016 [link] Ryder Richards’ most recent performance work Invisible Hand took place at Beefhaus Gallery in Dallas for a couple of weeks recently, in the run up to the fall season. The show examined the politics of labor (very specifically from the point of view […]
Review ~ Urs Fischer
Urs Fischer Standing Julian (2015) as part of “Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [link] Ignoring the common candle clichés, the more contentious aspect of “Standing Julian” is premature, celebrated, public death. Schnabel’s art-star career is characterized by egoistic confabulation, often manifest as equally grandiose work. Poignantly, […]
Review ~ Mauro Martinez
MAURO MARTINEZ published by EUTOPIA: Contemporary Art Review || July 2, 2016 Mauro Martinez In The Event of A Water Landing Oil on canvas [2016] Anchored by a fractured protagonist lost in a Bacon-esque pretense of depth, Martinez establishes a familiarity of painting as angst reflector. The ruptured figure in this delicatessen of discontent dissolves […]
Review ~ Doris Salcedo
Published by EUTOPIA: Contemporary Art Review, April 22, 2016 Doris Salcedo Plegaria Muda Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas [link] Conflating poetics with the politics of victimization Salcedo contextualizes her work with exhumation of the dead. Metaphorically and literally fecund, the dark platitude of survival through hardship physicalizes loss as symbolic graveyard. Plegaria Muda references Columbian youths […]
Review ~ Ann Veronica Janssens
Ann Veronica Janssens Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas [link] January 23, 2016 – April 17, 2016 [published by EUTOPIA: Contemporary Art Review] Experiential works, such as Janssens’ fog room or layered cubes, require little or no explanatory text to engage. The optical spectacle triggers a digital image impulse: documentary investigatory tourism is the mass socio-cultural statement. However beautiful, […]
Review~ Michael Mazurek
Michael Mazurek “New Paintings” BEEFhaus, Dallas [link]
