Tag: Exhibits
“The art world is still a boys’ club,” artist Mollie McKinley told ANIMAL. Before a nude performer bent herself over Z Behl’s giant-horned sculpture and the crowd flooded in, we crashed the instal of this year’s massive Brucennial group show in the Meatpacking Disctrict. Soon, the lines would stretch around the block in the freezing cold and the GoPro we taped to the […]
In time for art fair frenzy, Dis Magazine just put up a Tumblr/”infomercial” announcing an IRL pop-up shop in Manhattan that will be open for the next month. “Disown,” as their video describes it, offers “consumer products made by contemporary artists” including Ryan Trecartin, Jon Rafman, The Jogging and Hood By Air. The aesthetic /subtextual snark of the show should be familiar […]
CYCLE is a graffiti writer’s writer. He started his illicit career in 1989 and since has mastered the art of tags, throw-ups and pieces. He hit clean subway trains in the ’90s, painted freight trains thereafter and bombed alongside the best and most-renowned writers in the world. “About eight years ago, after a series of […]
Like his other legal and illegal work around NY, artist Cassius Fouler brings a mix of cartoonism, expressionism, and graffiti-based text to address the themes of “life moment to moment, the flaws of starving artistry, gentrification, humility, decadence, anger, sadness, inebriation and peril.” See his work on view tomorrow at the Pandemic Gallery warehouse. “Painting […]
In 1978, when graffiti was still developing and demonized as a blight on the city, artist Martin Wong was already a fan. He’d just moved to New York and was working Pearl Paint supply store, befriending the teenage writers who were equipping their arsenal at the store. He started collecting their black books and later, […]
Jessica Stoller’s ceramic sculptures are nightmares, rendered through delicate craft. With a show opening at P.P.O.W. this week, Stoller’s works exhibit some of the most traditional feminine flourishes — ribbons; flowers; pink-hued desserts — and reveal everything spoiled underneath — mountains of ribbons wrap and choke busts; flowers gape like hungry deformed carnal canals; deserts […]
New York-based photographer Tod Seelie is back from… Where’ve you been, Tod? “In Portland, Oregon on a raft, in LA shooting bands, and then hiding out on a farm in Nebraska.” Welcome back. We’re excited, because his first photography book Bright Nights: Photographs of Another New York published by PRESTEL comes out later this month, and he’s having a solo show at […]
From a flattened, remixed kid-face shuffling on a video billboard in Detroit, to the epic mutant on the exquisite corpse Tumblr project Cloaque, Rollin Leonard has been exhibiting photography-based work since 2004. It’s body horror… if body horror was very nice to look at. His first solo show of polished plexiglass’ed sculptures, looped moving images and digital collages “Trunks, Stems and […]
The New Museum smelled like gasoline, and I didn’t mind one bit. Before the public opening of Chris Burden’s exhibition “Extreme Measures” the press got a preview of the work and the live performance of The Big Wheel. Occupying all five floors of the museum, the exhibition marks the first expansive presentation of Burden’s groundbreaking works […]
Barry McGee’s current exhibition at Cheim & Read is his first in New York in over eight years. McGee’s colorful graphic compositions command attention and, at times, may even require their own room to be properly presented. The Bay Area artist’s work is informed by various, distinct influences, ranging from the bold visual styles of graffiti to the […]
