Category Archives: Reviews

Originally published January 26, 2010 by CityArts I have long been a fan of Tony Fitzpatrick’s eccentric and obsessive etchings. In the past he has turned his attention and finely-tuned hand to obsess on birds, bugs, hobo alphabets and the … Continue reading →

Originally published January 26, 2010 by CityArts If you’re strolling past the corner of East Fourth Street and Broadway, site of the old Tower Records store, you’re likely to hear an unlikely sound coming from the building: music. Through Feb. … Continue reading →

orig. published December 30, 2009 by New York Press Two very different exhibits with some similar ideas . David Dunlap’s “Project Book #28.” Two gallery shows in wildly disparate locations end 2009 on an interesting note. The first, on the … Continue reading →

Originally published December 3, 2009 by CityArts Carroll Dunham is a naughty boy. His current exhibition, at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery, is a meditation, shall we say, on two female orifices. This is a disappointing exhibition from a gifted artist … Continue reading →

Originally published November 3, 2009 by CityArts Kris Graves Projects, a Dumbo gallery, has just opened “Of Land,” a fresh and visionary exhibition show of landscape photography. This elegantly curated show consists of 11 photographers whose diverse visions cover a … Continue reading →

Originally published October 20, 2009 by New York Press Something In The Water A fantastical gallery opens on a ho-hum NYU block The Esopus Creek is a renowned trout fishing stream that flows through the Catskill Mountains into the Ashokan … Continue reading →

Originally published July 8, 2009 by New York Press Summer in New York is long, slow, hot and brutal—especially for art galleries. Many of the people who might actually buy something are out of town, and the traditional tourist is … Continue reading →

Originally published Tuesday, June 23, 2009 by New York Press LET’S GET THE obvious question out of the way: A “snatch block” is the part of a crane that the hook is attached to. Given that the co-owners and curators … Continue reading →

Originally published Wednesday, May 20, 2009 by New York Press In the No, a thought-provoking exhibition at Edlin Gallery, challenges some of our basic assumptions about outsider artists. The mythology is that outsider artists exist in a state of “not … Continue reading →

Originally published Monday, March 9, 2009 by New York Press The work of Penny Rockwell, currently showing at Pavel Zoubock Gallery, is harrowing, intimate, sad and beautiful. She has documented with painful honesty the progression of a psychotic break that … Continue reading →