Full disclosure: Clarence Hause and I are in an Art History class together at Brooklyn College this semester and I, the historian, was assigned to create/present a talk about he, the artist (also Master of Fine Arts candidate). Before getting too deep into the presentation, we both thought it best if I wrote up a simple review...
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SUSAN GARDNER
There is art in New York that you won’t find in a gallery or museum. Take the F or G train to the Boerum Hill part of Brooklyn and walk down to 108 Wyckoff Street. There you will find the front of a residential building bejeweled with glittering tiles, beads, buttons, pearlescent garlands and an...
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JENI SPOTA C
Dicey Fabulous Carnival is the new exhibit of paintings by New York-based artist Jeni Spota C., currently at Brennan and Griffin Gallery (Bowery), and it sees her furthering an investigation into magical imagery and generous materiality. Thickly piped with designs of subdued harlequin colors, these paintings evoke banners and Maestà altarpieces, teaming with faces, symbols, and decorative...
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SHAWN ALLEYNE
This past weekend was the fourth annual Black Comic Book Festival at the Schomberg Center in Harlem, and it seems finally to’ve outgrown its space. Besides half-hour lines around the block just to get in, the aisles in-between the booths were so crammed with onlookers that it was difficult getting near much of the art. Eric...
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ANNA ZEMÁNKOVÁ
So while it’s true that this blog normally covers contemporary artists living in NYC, the new retrospective of work by Anna Zemánková (1908-1986), at the Cavin-Morris Gallery in Chelsea, was just too good to pass up. Here’s why: First, Zemánková’s botanical drawings twist and sway like dancers; using delicate pastel, ink, pencil, and crocheted details, the...
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RITHIKA MERCHANT
At the center of Rithika Merchant‘s visual language is the issue of natality. Indeed, the umbilical cord is attached to a variety of life sources in her work, though each carrier—from winged goddesses to humanoid females, to the fabled Tree of Life—suggests a pseudo-scientific explanation for why things are the way they are. Merchant is not...
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