
A Process That Takes Place In The Mind: Ellsworth Kelly’s Photographs
on view at Matthew Marks through April 30
The Israeli artist is at Y Gallery through February 5
Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices at the Reina Sofia, Madrid, June 10 – September 2, 2010
on view at Matthew Marks through April 30
“She demonstrates a genius for color, texture, and the exploration of spatial conundrums”
This show was featured in our October 2012 Listings
As these mercurial installations, films, and performances indicate, Conceptual art often yielded works of great elegance in novel forms of presentation.
A film review from 2009 coincides with the artist’s show at Hionas Gallery
Marcel Proust begins his novel In Search of Lost Time with a famously long passage in which the Narrator describes sleep, or more properly, the antics of his imagination, while semi-conscious. When I read this passage for the first time, the image that most struck me was that of the Narrator sitting in an armchair reading…
Published by Phaidon Press, 2007, www.phaidon.com 336 pages, 280 black & white photographs, 70 color photographs $69.95 When the findings of history, a discussion of uses and the reconstruction of story blend with criticism, portrait content, I hope, is enlivened. Still, the narratives within it keep on turning, like the expressions on faces, themselves… (p….