Tag Archives: mixed media

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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My Upstate Art Weekend Adventure

Posted on March 2, 2023 by melissa

July 30, 2022 in ArtSpiel Vanessa German,  Black on Black, 2021, Handmade folk art cloth Black woman pin cushion, glory, wood, love, astroturf, Black seed beads, confusion, Black rhinestone trim, Black bead trim, (they traded your grandmother for a handful of … Continue reading →

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Hew Locke: The Procession at the Tate Britain

Posted on December 7, 2022 by melissa

Published on July 28, 2022 in Art Spiel Each year The Tate Britain commissions a large-scale art installation for the iconic Duveen Galleries at the museum. This is a vast space, an art-filled hall, more than a typical gallery that … 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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An Outsider Artist Channels His Demons Into Uniquely Funny and Dark Compositions

Posted on September 14, 2021 by melissa

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 →

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WEIRDEST YEAR EVER

Posted on October 13, 2020 by melissa

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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An Army of Female Power Figures Stands Against Injustice

Posted on December 30, 2016 by melissa

in Hyperallergic 17, 2016 Vanessa German’s show packs a punch, and is especially powerful in the context of the national politics of the past year. Vanessa German, “The Boxer” (left) and “No Water Cleaner” (right) (all photos by the author … Continue reading →

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El Anatsui Goes To School

Posted on May 27, 2015 by melissa

published in Hyperallergic May 21, 2015 El Anatsui’s “Womb ot Time”(2014) at The School ( all images copyright El Anatsui and courtesy  of the artist and Jack Shaiman Gallery, unless otherwise noted KINDERHOOK, NY — The School, Jack Shainman’s splendid … Continue reading →

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Out of This World, Domestic Objects Transcend

Posted on April 2, 2015 by melissa

by Melissa Stern on March 24, 2015  Subodh Gupta, “This is not a fountain” (2011), old aluminium utensils, water, painted brass taps, PVC pipes, motor (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) New York is a big art city, with … Continue reading →

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