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A Blizzard of Paint and Objects: Joyce Pensato Makes Pop Culture Her Own
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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Tagged Batman, comic books, Contemporary art, drawing, Homer Simpson, Joyce Pensato, Melissa Stern, Painting, Petzel Gallery
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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
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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Tagged Chicago art galleries, drawing, Firecat Projects, Firecat Projets, Melissa Stern, mixed media, sculpture, Visual arts
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Grayson Perry’s Subversive and Psychosexual World
in Hyperallergic on April 28, 2016 Grayson Perry, “Sex and Drugs and Earthenware” (1995) (detail), glazed ceramic, 54 x 24.5 cm (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) SYDNEY — The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Australia has mounted the … Continue reading
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Tagged ceramics, drawing, Freud, Grayson Perry, Jung, Melissa Stern, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Pottery William Hogarth, Tapestry, Transvestite
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At Martín Ramírez Opening, A Defense of Immigrant’s Rights and Outsider Art
March 27, 2015 in Hyperallergic Martín Ramírez,”Untitled (Tunnel with Cars and Buses)” (1954), reproduced as one of five new ‘Forever’ Stamps by the United States Postal Service (© 2015 USPS) (click to enlarge) Blue-chip outsider artist Martín Ramírez was memorialized … Continue reading
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Tagged drawing, Hyperallergic, Martin Ramirez, Melissa Stern, outsider art, Ricco Maresca Gallery, Self-Taught artist, Visual arts
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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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Tagged Autisim, Creative Growth, Dan Miller, drawing, Melissa Stern, mixed media, Ricco Maresca Gallery, Self-Taught artist
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Hitting History Hard
by MELISSA Feb 18, 2014 • Frohawk Two Feathers brings revolution to art and politics Frohawk Two Feathers is re-writing American history. In his current exhibition at Morgan Lehman Gallery, “Heartbreaking and Shit, But That’s the Globe. The Battle of … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, drawing, Frohawk Two-Feathers, Melissa Stern, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Works on Paper
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Working Class Art Hero
The New York Press- Jan. 13, 2014 Spiegelman’s comix and more in Jewish Museum exhibition Much has been written about Maus, Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel that recounts the harrowing tale of Spiegelman’s parents’ experience and survival in Auschwitz. … Continue reading
Further Thoughts on the Art of Melissa Stern
Paul J. Karlstrom 19 January 2013 On a recent trip to New York my wife and I managed to see several exhibitions during what was primarily a family Christmas week in Brooklyn. Although we were staying … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Karlstom, Archives of American Art, ceramic sculpture, Children's Museum of the Arts, drawing, Freud, Images of childhood, Melissa Stern, New York Cirt Artist, Oral Histories, outsider art, Paul J. Karlstrom, Peter Selz, QR codes, San Francisco, sculpture, smartphone technology, Smithsonian
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