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Category Archives: Reviews
Figural Sculptures That Weave an Enigmatic Story of Disassociation and Isolation
Claudette Schreuders’s most recent show at Jack Shainman gallery, In the Bedroom is perhaps both her most revealing and most enigmatic body of work to date. published June 17. 2019 Install shot: “School Days” (2019) Lime wood, enamel paint. 10 x 9.) … Continue reading
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Tagged art from Africa, contmporary sculpture, Melissa Stern, South African artist, Visual arts, women sculptrs, wood carving
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Claudette Schreuders occupies an intriguing place in the contemporary art world. Born in South Africa in 1973, before the end of apartheid, but in the center of its crumbling, her work has always elegantly danced the line between the personal and the political. Mention … Continue reading
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A Treasure Trove of Oddities and Timely Exhibitions at Oxford’s Ethnography Museum
September 14, 2018 in Hyperallergic Originally defined as an academic museum of Anthropology and World Archeology, the Pitt Rivers Museum has morphed into something much more extensive and meaningful. The Pitt Rivers Museum (all images by the author for Hyperallergic) … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthropology, Ethnographic Museums, Melissa Stern, Oxford University, Pitt Rivrs Museum
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Artists and Scientists Concoct Immersive Projects at the Wellcome
Published July 3 in Hyperallergic The Wellcome Collection in London introduces four mixed-media installations in an immersive, collaborative show between artists and scientists. Maria McKinney, Sire series, C-print, 147 X 220 cm. (all photos courtesy of the author for Hyperallergic) … Continue reading
Artists Who Unlocked the Modernist Grid
published April 11, 2018 in Hyperallergic A gallery show that turns the form of the grid inside out, shedding more light on this iconic 20th-century favorite. Arshile Gorky, “Still Life” (c.1930s), oil on canvas, 8″ x 10″ (all photos by … Continue reading
Tantalizing Quilts Woven with Poetic, Political Messages
published March 13, 2018 in Hyperallergic The artists in Piecework embed intriguing, coded messages into their quilts. Vanessa German, “Delia Quilt 1” (2015), silkscreen on found quilt (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Pavel Zoubok gallery is currently hosting … Continue reading
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Tagged Donna Sharrett, Joe Lewis, Melissa Stern, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, Quilts, Vanessa German
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The Story Behind Northern India’s Breathtaking, Disappearing Frescoes.
In Hyperallergic-January 23, 2018 The Shekhawati region covers almost 5,000 square miles and hosts an estimated 2,000 frescoed buildings built from the 17th to the early 20th century. A ceiling fresco in a haveli in India’s Shekhawati province (all photos by … Continue reading
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Tagged Frescos, Indian art, Northern India, Rajastan, Shekhawati
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Corrected Version- Please ignore previous post!
Do to some technical weirdness only half of the review posted. Please ignore that- here’s the full piece. Sorry about that!!! At MASS MoCA, sculptures by Lonnie Holley and Dawn DeDeaux reflect the environmental and political state of the … Continue reading
Miniature Universes Constructed from Archaeological Fragments
In his current exhibition TERRAoptics at Sepia Gallery, Vivan Sundaram has created tableaux with ceramic pottery shards from an archeological dig at Pattanam, in the Indian state of Kerala. Melissa SternJune 13, 2017Vivian Sundaram, “Terraoptics Split Open” (2016), 30 x 30 … Continue reading