Tag Archives: mixed media

A Stage Within a Stage- Ye Qin Zhu at Dimin

Published on ArtSpiel.org, Oct. 8, 2023. A Stage Within a Stage-mixed media on eight fitted panels. 5 x 27 feet. 2022-2023 There’s a riot going on. That’s what I thought as I stood in front of Ye Qin Zhu’s large-scale … Continue reading

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My Upstate Art Weekend Adventure

July 30, 2022 in ArtSpiel Vanessa German,  Black on Black, 2021, Handmade folk art cloth Black woman pin cushion, glory, wood, love, astroturf, Black seed beads, confusion, Black rhinestone trim, Black bead trim, (they traded your grandmother for a handful of … Continue reading

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Hew Locke: The Procession at the Tate Britain

Published on July 28, 2022 in Art Spiel Each year The Tate Britain commissions a large-scale art installation for the iconic Duveen Galleries at the museum. This is a vast space, an art-filled hall, more than a typical gallery that … Continue reading

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Report from Kinderhook: Feedback at Jack Shainman Gallery/The School

Oct. 21, 2021 ( yeah I know, I’m posting a wee bit late!) in Artcritical Installation shot of the exhibition under review, with Karon Davis’s Double Dutch Girls (2021) in the foreground. Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery Jack Shainman opened The School … Continue reading

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An Outsider Artist Channels His Demons Into Uniquely Funny and Dark Compositions

Jan. 31, 2020 in Hyperallergic On display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, works of Benjamin Jones project deep sorrow as well as an unvanquished ray of optimism. Benjamin Jones, “Isolating the Disease” from the Isolation Series (2003), graphite … Continue reading

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WEIRDEST YEAR EVER

A rant about 2020…….. Housebound- 2020. Oilstick, graphite. 10 x 8 I haven’t posted a rant or a rave in many years. But man, oh, man, if ever there was a time in the history of the Universe to post … Continue reading

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An Army of Female Power Figures Stands Against Injustice

in Hyperallergic 17, 2016 Vanessa German’s show packs a punch, and is especially powerful in the context of the national politics of the past year. Vanessa German, “The Boxer” (left) and “No Water Cleaner” (right) (all photos by the author … Continue reading

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El Anatsui Goes To School

published in Hyperallergic May 21, 2015 El Anatsui’s “Womb ot Time”(2014) at The School ( all images copyright El Anatsui and courtesy  of the artist and Jack Shaiman Gallery, unless otherwise noted KINDERHOOK, NY — The School, Jack Shainman’s splendid … Continue reading

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Out of This World, Domestic Objects Transcend

by Melissa Stern on March 24, 2015  Subodh Gupta, “This is not a fountain” (2011), old aluminium utensils, water, painted brass taps, PVC pipes, motor (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) New York is a big art city, with … Continue reading

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Reading a Drawing Without Labels

published Nov. 12,2014  in Hyperallergic Dan Miller “Untitled (blue ‘ON’ and yellow with graphite)” (2011), acrylic and graphite on paper (all images courtesy Ricco Maresca Gallery) Dan Miller has created some of the most glorious work that I’ve seen in … Continue reading

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