The Time for Nuance is Over? by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Walking into the first floor of the Whitney Biennial, one is immediately accosted by what can only be described as the cacophony of 2016–2017. The first step off the elevator lands you in front of Dana Schutz’s “Elevator,” a bright jumble of bodies and bugs…
Category: exhibition reviews
Exhibition: Let The Garden Eram Flourish
A New Exhibition by Bahar Behbahani By Susan B. Apel Does beauty exist, untainted? If an argument, or a tragedy, occurs in your favorite room, can it remain your peaceful place or is it changed? If so, is it forever ruined, or does beauty subsume any ugliness in its midst? Artist Bahar Behbahani asks these…
2017 Waterloo Arts Juried Exhibition
Waterloo Arts Entry Deadline: Apr. 2, 2017 15605 Waterloo Arts Cleveland, OH 44110 Phone 216.942.6500 http://waterlooarts.org/ You are cordially invited to enter the Waterloo Arts Fest Juried Exhibition. This is the third national juried exhibition held in the Waterloo Arts Gallery and the second held concurrently with the Waterloo Arts Festival.
Exhibition Review: Invented Landscapes
Surreal Visions of the Natural World By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Initially, Tula Telfair’s sweeping landscape compositions in her Invented Landscapes series may remind you of the large panoramic vistas of nineteenth-century Hudson River School painters, such as Thomas Cole or Frederic Edwin Church. All have similar attention paid to rendering natural splendor in great detail. However, Telfair’s…
Exhibition Review: Artists Choosing Artists
Jurors and Artists at Parrish Art Museum By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Juried shows abound, but Artists Choose Artists, on view at the Parrish Art Museum, is unique in that the works of the jurors are shown together with their chosen artists. Each of the seven jurors selected two out of nearly 200 online submissions. This could have proved a particularly difficult…
Studio Snapshots: The Private Spaces of Creatives at Work
An Artists Open Studio Tour By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Having grown up with an artist as a mother, I have always revered that private space of the creative at work; a space that resonates of the artist’s individuality, and a reason I’ve always enjoyed studio tours—over the years, having helped my mother prepare her own…
Exhibition Review: Traces
Lorna Bieber: Up Close and Personal By Sandra Tyler, Editor-In-Chief It’s not every day that I get to view in person works we feature in our magazine. So much of what we actually get to see is remotely, except for our first Selected Works exhibition last December, when I was graced to be in the…
Exhibition Review: Ten Photographers Envision a Museum
Reimagining a Historical Place by Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor In Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum at the Florence Griswold House in Old Lyme, Connecticut, is an exhibition of a select group of photographers tasked with creating works that address the historic site’s landscape, collections, and story. The place has proved an inspiration to artists for…
Exhibition Review: Agnes Martin
Abstract Expressionist or Minimalist? By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Agnes Martin’s works are not immediately impactful. There is no Jackson Pollock wow factor. They are to be ruminated upon, studied; appreciated for their emotional resonance, a hallmark of abstract expressionism – a movement I’ve always identified foremost with my mother, with the sweeping gestural and atmospheric of her own…
Exhibition Review: Unfinished Business
At the Parrish Art Museum By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Unfinished Business: Paintings from the 1970s and 1980s by Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and David Salle is a grouping of three artists who were friends for decades, and all who wound up on the east end of Long Island where the Parrish is located. But their similarities are…
Exhibition Review: László Moholy-Nagy
The Future Present By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Initially it was Moholy-Nagy’s kinship with Calder that drew me to this Future Present exhibition, both pioneers of the kinetic sculpture movement – Calder perhaps best known for his mobiles. But Moholy-Nagy’s works do not resonate of that same playfulness, certainly not on the level of Calder’s at…
Electric Paris Aglow with Light and Thought
We spent the last few weeks touring the New England area and had the opportunity to visit the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT. The show on display was Electric Paris which explored how artists depicted nocturnal Paris by gas light and with the new electric light bulb. There were about 50 works by artists such…