Category: contemporary art

  • Tara Donovan at The Met

    Tara Donovan (American, b. 1969)Untitled (Mylar) (detail), 2007Mylar and glue; 96 in. x 10 ft. x 1/2 in.© Tara Donovan, courtesy PaceWildenstein, New YorkPhoto: Dennis Crowley Tara Donovan is known for turning common, manufactured objects into abstract sculptural installations. Her work typically has dimension and substance—a 42” cube made from straight pins or amoebic honeycomb…

  • Cult of Color: Call to Color–A Collaboration at Arthouse at the Jones Center

    While I was in Austin, Texas in April to hear Katy Siegel and Wade Saunders talk to MFA students and the public at UT Austin, I stopped in to see the exhibition at Arthouse. Cult of Color:Call to Color–Notes on a Collaboration featured the work of visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, choreographer Stephen Mills and…

  • ArtPace: New Works–08.1

    Past participants of the International Artists-in-Residence program at ArtPace in San Antonio, Texas, reads like a whose-who of art stars from the contemporary art world: Felix Gonzalez Torres, Antony Gormley, Glenn Ligon, Shahzia Sikander, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Edgar Arceneaux and Wangechi Mutu, just to name a few. In residence January 13 to March 17, 2008…

  • The Continuing Evolution of Minimalism: Susan York at Lannan Foundation

    Three black-silver columns are installed in the white cube gallery at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, NM. Two are six feet tall and about ten inches wide and are placed almost in two opposite corners of the space. Almost, because they do not touch the perpendicular wall, a tense space of an inch between…

  • Ephemeral BIENNIAL, Durango Herald, June 27, 2008

    ‘Lucky Number Seven’ at SITE Santa Fe explores collaboration, energy Nadine Robinson’s sculpture “Tri-Christus” is on the roof of the SITE Santa Fe building, where the show “Lucky Number Seven” will run through Jan. 4. June 27, 2008 By Leanne Goebel | Special to the Herald “It’s not the outcome that’s important, it’s your intention,”…

  • Pagosa Arts Council Show a Step Up, Durango Herald, June 24, 2008

    “The Flock” by Lorraine Trenholm won first prize at the PSAC 5th Annual Juried Show Review Pagosa Springs Arts Council’s fifth annual Juried Art Exhibition, Tuesday-Sunday, noon-4 p.m., through July 8, 315 Hermosa Street (in Town Park), Pagosa Springs, 264-5020. The Pagosa Springs Arts Council opened its fifth annual Juried Show on Thursday and took…

  • Highlights from the PULSE Art Fair, March 27-30, 2008

    I’ve overly challenged myself to keep up with all the great trips and experiences I’ve been having since winning the Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writer’s Grant. This last week the Affordable Art Fair hosted 70 galleries in New York, representing work from $100-$10,000. It brought to mind the amazing experience I had…

  • Art in springtime, Durango Herald, May 9, 2008

    Explore Downtown during Durango’s Gallery Walk Jami Tobey will be at the Rain Dance Gallery to talk about her paintings like “Wildflowers,” shown here. Twice a year, Durango galleries get together and host a gallery walk. They invite artists to show up and mingle with guests, chill the Pellegrino and put out a plate of…

  • Fireworks artist shows at Guggenheim, Durango Herald, April 15, 2008

    Cai Guo-QiangInopportune: Stage One, 2004Nine cars and sequenced multichannel light tubesDimensions variableSeattle Art Museum, Gift of Robert M. Arnold, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum, 2006Exhibition copy installed at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2008© Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation New York. Photo by David Heald. NEW YORK – Chinese…

  • Temporal Tenuosness: Whitney Biennial 2008

    Mika Rottenberg, Production still from Cheese, 2007.Digital video, color, sound; approximately 12 min.Collection of the artist. Below is the original article I wrote and submitted for publication: “A biennial is an exercise in imposing temporary order and control onto a situation that is, essentially, out of control,” writes Adam Weinberg, director of the Whitney Museum…