Tag Archives: Contemporary art

What The House Dreams Of – Two painters at Ruby Dakota Gallery

Posted on February 26, 2026 by melissa

“Childhood” has always been a fertile source for artists in all disciplines. We all had a childhood and, for better or worse, we all carry memories that often haunt us throughout our lifetimes. Ruby/Dakota, a scrappy young gallery in the … Continue reading →

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Delusions of Grandeur -Grayson Perry at the Wallace Collection

Posted on February 12, 2026 by melissa

The Wallace Collection, a storied historic mansion in London that houses an extraordinary, far-ranging collection of art and objects, invited the artist Grayson Perry to embed and create an exhibition that responds to their collections. Collected during the18th and 19th … Continue reading →

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Martin Wilner -The Case Histories: When We Cease to Understand the World (Extraterrestrials on The Couch)

Posted on January 14, 2025 by melissa

Posted on September 18, 2024 by Melissa Stern Martin Wilner -The Case Histories: When We Cease to Understand the World (Extraterrestrials on The Couch) June 2015- Seth Shostak. Pen and ink on Bristol board 161/2 x 171/8 Martin Wilner’s compelling … Continue reading →

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The Golden Thread – BravinLee Offsite at The Seaport

Posted on December 10, 2024 by melissa

published in Art Spiel on May 2, 2024   Christopher Myers Ghezo’s Throne, 2021 Appliqué textile, 72 x 48 inches BravinLee Projects has just launched an audacious, big, and bold exhibition of 60 contemporary artists working in textile or textile-related … Continue reading →

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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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