Tag Archives: Contemporary art

A Stage Within a Stage- Ye Qin Zhu at Dimin

Posted on January 11, 2024 by melissa

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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A Garden Grows in the Meatpacking District

Posted on November 2, 2023 by melissa

Specimens.- 2018. 287 pieces of wood with powdered graphite, 42” x 35” x 6” approx. Posted on July 25, 2023 by Melissa Stern Sculptor Loren Eiferman has brought a veritable garden of strange to Ivy Brown Gallery this summer. Her … Continue reading →

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RADIANCE: THEY DREAM IN COLOR. THE UGANDA PAVILION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE

Posted on June 1, 2023 by melissa

  Posted on December 1, 2022 by Melissa Stern in ArtSpiel Install photo of Radiance: They Dream in Color The Venice Biennale, a sprawling art Universe, takes over the city every other year alternating its focus between art and architecture. … Continue reading →

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Motel in the Catskills

Posted on April 6, 2023 by melissa

Published August 17, 2022 in ArtSpiel The rural Catskill mountain village of Fleischmanns an unlikely a place to find a world-class contemporary art installation. In the nineteenth century, the village was a flourishing, prosperous Catskill vacation spot for the New … Continue reading →

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KATHY BUTTERLY AT JAMES COHAN GALLERY – COLOR IN FORMING

Posted on September 12, 2022 by melissa

Posted on March 22, 2022 in Art Spiel Dances With Color and Form Installation view Staring at Kathy Butterly’s ceramic sculptures, I am overwhelmed by an urge to reach out and touch them. The marriage of color and form is … Continue reading →

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

Posted on June 22, 2022 by melissa

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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A Blizzard of Paint and Objects: Joyce Pensato Makes Pop Culture Her Own

Posted on February 17, 2022 by melissa

Feb. 10, 2021 in artcritical Joyce Pensato at Petzel Gallery Installation shot of the exhibition under review showing Joyce Pensato, Daisy, 2012, to the right. Courtesy of Petzel Gallery, New York Joyce Pensato’s 2012 exhibition, Batman Returns, although her third … Continue reading →

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Hermannsburg Potters

Posted on May 17, 2021 by melissa

Reposting from March 2016. Originally in Hyperllergic Aboriginal Women in Australia Celebrate Their Football Heroes with Pottery Rona Rubunjta Arrente’s “I’m Black” (2015) (left); Ngala Wheeler’s “Brotherhood” (2015) (right) in ‘Our Land is Alive: Hermannsburg Potters for Kids continues’ at … Continue reading →

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A Memorial to Crimes Against Women and Children in Ghostly Glass

Posted on September 11, 2020 by melissa

Published in Hyperallergic August 22, 2019 Northern Irish artist Alison Lowry addresses the 200 years of crimes perpetrated by the Catholic Church in collaboration with the Irish state. Alison, Lowry, “Instead of the fragrance there will be stench; instead of … Continue reading →

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Artists and Scientists Concoct Immersive Projects at the Wellcome

Posted on July 25, 2018 by melissa

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 →

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