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Tag Archives: Melissa Stern
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
Hermannsburg Potters
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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Tagged Anthropology, ceramics, Contemporary art, Hyperallergic, Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne, Melissa Stern, Self-Taught artist, Visual arts
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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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A Memorial to Crimes Against Women and Children in Ghostly Glass
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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Tagged Contemporary art, Dublin, Glass Art, Ireland, Melissa Stern, National Museum of Ireland
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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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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