Karla Black at Stuart Shave / Modern Art
Karla Black at Stuart Shave / Modern Art and Gabriel Kuri at Sadie Coles HQ, London
April 25, 2012, 6:15 pm
Report From London: Around Mayfair, Part One
April 18, 2012, 8:35 pm
David Hall, “End Piece” at Ambika P3
Give Them the Meaning They’d Rather Not Have: Stock Language in ‘Images Rendered Bare…’
March 3, 2012, 7:38 pm
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“Romantic couple in the kitchen: Happy woman mixing vegetable salad while man embracing her from behind”
Four Artists to Know: Sarah Braman, Lucky PDF, Nikolas Gambaroff, Josephine Pryde
February 29, 2012, 9:00 am
Take a gander at the latest installment of “Moving Up,” my column on emerging and post-emerging art, written for the Beijing-based contemporary art magazine LEAP.
Sarah Braman installation view at Mitchell Innes and Nash
SARAH BRAMAN
At the age of 43, Sarah Braman has finally made her mark on the international contemporary art world. A long-time presence in the downtown Manhattan scene, Braman co-owns the well-respected Lower East Side gallery CANADA with her husband Phil Grauer, in addition to making sculpture. Supporting her two children, artistic practice, and the early stages of the gallery through the sort of back-breaking labor only desperate New Yorkers would understand, Braman could be seen as an underdog finally coming to full fruition when given the chance, or in her own words, a “Seabiscuit figure.” Within the last two years, Braman has presented solo exhibitions at the Armory Fair and Museum 52 in New York; MACRO in Rome, Italy; the Institute d’art Modern in Paris; and has participated in group shows in established institutions and galleries such as the Zabludowicz Collection, the Lisbon Biennial, Johan König, Berlin; as well as Zach Feuer and Leo Koenig in New York.
Most recently, Braman launched a solo exhibition at the estimable Chelsea gallery Mitchell Innes and Nash. Titled “Yours,” the exhibition slices and deconstructs a recreational vehicle with the aggressiveness of Matta-Clark, its insides repackaged into modular constructions and painted upon with soft, purplish hues. Braman’s work, phenomenologically impressive, reads as feminine, yet resists a reductionist definition of the term. Embracing movement both in time and vantage, the artist allows nostalgia to seep into her work while also forcing the viewer to rotate around its gargantuan size, activating it physically and emotionally. Braman is represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, and works closely with CANADA, New York, as well as Museum 52, London and New York.
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Monday Links: Scientologists ‘Can’t Afford Any Weak Spots’ in New Balkan Empire; Some People Only Know How to Use the Internet Through Facebook; A Dubstep Remix of 4′33″
February 13, 2012, 9:07 pm
Post by B Taylor
A map of the BULGRAVIA Project, a Scientology initiated effort to gain control over a Balkan region that included Bulgaria, Greece, Albania and Yugoslavia, in order to establish a safe geographic territory (if not a Scientologist state), from which to operate globally, with the minimum of disturbances. From Albanian Pyramids.
Move Over VIP! Online Exhibition ‘Can’t Touch This’ Now Live on ArtMicroPatronage.org
February 1, 2012, 7:03 pm
Screenshot of “Can’t Touch This,” artwork shown, Harm van den Dorpel, “Speculative Sculptures” 2012
Events Such as These Build Character: Navigating Farce and Fantasy in ‘Performance Anxiety’
January 11, 2012, 8:01 pm
Text and photography by Nicolas Linnert
Timur Si-Qin, “Axe Effect” detail
Chicago’s Golden Age Closes; Rafael Rozendaal Simplifies Digital Conservation; New Fugazi Online Archive; ETC.
November 28, 2011, 1:52 pm
A short and sweet video of Iain Baxter& speaking about his life and work. Via MCA Chicago
– Golden Age, Chicago’s younger answer to Chelsea’s Printed Matter, closes its doors this month. The West Loop bookstore and event space is run by my favorite Chicagoans, Marco Kane Braunschweiler and Martine Syms, who are interviewed by Jason Foumberg in New City about their decision to move on. Sad to see them ago, but excited what the future holds in store for both. [New City]
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Is Jack Strange Trying to Weird Us Out?
November 23, 2011, 7:37 pm
Jack Strange, “Metaphorical Vegetables” 2011. Courtesy Tanya Bonakdar
