Archives for the Month of June, 2014

Frameshift

Frameshift at Denny Gallery. There is a gallery talk with useful pictures and some of the artists tomorrow (Saturday) at 3:00pm. “The six artists in Frameshift collide with and attempt to negotiate the technical image as encoded by the camera. The practices represented occupy the divide between the hand-crafted image historically available and attributable to […]

Walid Raad

Walid Raad Work from The Atlas Group and Scratching on things I could disavow. “Walid Raad’s first major exhibition in a French museum covers two of his long-term projects: The Atlas Group (1989-2004) and Scratching on Things I could Disavow (2007-ongoing). The Atlas Group (1989 – 2004) was a project Raad initiated in 1989 – […]

Jessica Labatte

Jessica Labatte Work from her oeuvre  Jessica is the current artist in residence at Light Work “Jessica Labatte was born in 1981 in Salt Lake City, UT and currently lives and works in Chicago, IL. She received a MFA and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Labatte’s photographic work is […]

Christian Philipp Müller

Christian Philipp Müller Work from his oeuvre. “When Charles Ephrussi received A Bunch of Asparagus painted by Édouard Manet in 1880, he paid Manet 200 francs more than the 800 francs originally agreed upon — apparently because he was so pleased with the result. Pleased in turn by the unexpected increase in his fee, Manet sent his […]

Matt Lipps

Matt Lipps Work from his oeuvre “Matt Lipps recently confessed to me that, during his adolescence, he owned a lifesized poster cutout of the 1990s siren and Melrose Place habitué, Alyssa Milano, which was tacked above the frame of his bed. It was an early intimation of the themes Lipps now examines in his work: […]

Fragments of an Unknowable Whole

Fragments of an Unknowable Whole @ Urban Arts Space. The artists in Fragments of an Unknowable Whole see the irresolvable question of photographic meaning as a launching point for their artistic inquiries. They are not concerned with seeking photographic truth. Instead, these diverse practices complicate the idea that a photographic image is a fixed view […]

Hannah Sawtell

Hannah Sawtell Work from ACCUMULATOR currently on view at New Museum “In her work, Sawtell considers the relationship between the surfaces of images and objects, and the multiplicity of structures that underpin them. Through a variety of media—installation, video, print, radio broadcast, sound, and performance—Sawtell renders the fluidity of digital images with spatial, physical, and temporal […]

Jaya Howey

Jaya Howey Work from “Note to Self” at Bureau, New York. “Bureau is pleased to announce Note to Self, Jaya Howey’s first exhibition with the gallery. Howey’s exhibition includes three new bodies of work, two modes of painting: narratives and respites, and the ceramic frame works. Howey’snarratives establish an emotionally fraught thread through the use of a rudimentary pictographic code. The respitesfeature […]