Colleen Asper



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Installation shot of the exhibition under review showing, foreground, Demetrius Oliver Parallax, 2008. Digital c-print, anthracite
Saturday, June 13th, 2009

1992009 at D’Amelio Terras

1992009 is a group show with a catchy sci-fi name that offers the theory that 1992 and 2009 share not only similar cultural landmarks–the replacement of a Bush in the White House with a Democrat, the war in Iraq, and fiscal failure–but also an artistic vision.

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Life on Mars: The 55th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Life on Mars shares a number of artists with Unmonumental, including Mark Bradford, Cao Fei, Thomas Hirschhorn, Matthew Monahan, Manfred Pernice, and Susan Philipsz. For a show of only 39 artists, that makes nearly a sixth. This is perhaps unsurprising considering the New Museum’s Eungie Joo served on the advisory committee for the 2008 International, but is rather suspect for a show that purports to be global in its representation. Suspect as well is that all but seven of the artists are from the US or Europe and only twelve are women.

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever: Curated by Becky Smith

Like the bastard twin of metaphysics, we want art to tell us the meaning of it all.