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Tag Archives: sculpture
Report from Kinderhook: Feedback at Jack Shainman Gallery/The School
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
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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An Army of Female Power Figures Stands Against Injustice
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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Tagged collage, Melissa Stern, mixed media, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, political art, sculpture, Self-Taught artist, Vanessa German
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El Anatsui Goes To School
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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Tagged Africa, Contemporary African art, Jack Shainman Gallery, Melissa Stern, mixed media, sculpture, steel sculpture, Visual arts
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Ohr what?
George Adams Gallery has mounted an exhibition of the work of George Ohr and Ron Nagle. Each had been known, in their time, for making work deemed groundbreaking and “outrageous.” George Ohr worked in the early 20th century, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Biloxi Mississippi, ceramics, George Ohr, glaze, Nagle, Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Of Art, Pottery, Ron Nagle, sculpture, The mad Potter of Biloxi
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Dina Park…..
The first day in Israel was a total blur. Arrival, customs, bags, pick up at airport, go to see new apt, go to the art center, my wonderful friends mark and Yael showed up to whisk me away to lunch … Continue reading
Posted in Rants and Raves
Tagged Arts, Cliff, Dina Park, Israel, Jaffa, Melissa Stern, sculpture, Visual arts, Yael
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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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