Criticism
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
The American artist Kara Walker poses questions about slavery’s history and legacy with a major UK commission. ...
Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
The work of earlier artists can be found in scenes from this expat Russian painter’s adolescence. ...
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
An exhibition that follows a fashion designer as she channels the spirit of her times ...

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

Strangers Seen Through a Telephoto Lens

BEAT STREULI: Bruxelles Midi Murray Guy Gallery JESPER JUST: It Will All End In Tears Perry Rubenstein Gallery A version of this article appeared in the New York Sun, October 19, 2006 Swiss-born, Dusseldorf-based artist Beat Streuli rose to prominence in the early 1990s for his work in color photography and video. Mr. Streuli’s abiding … Continued

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967-1975

an exhibition curated by Katy Siegel with David Reed

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

Leah Durner: Paintings

Wooster Art Space, 147 Wooster Street New York City September 5 to 30, 2006 This show – which was curated by David Cohen, editor and publisher of artcritical.com — covers a time range from 2001 to 2006 and as would be expected reflects some diversity. Durner appears to have moved from a rougher esthetic to … Continued

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

Liu Ye, Kyung Jeon, Chie Fueki

Liu Ye: “Temptations” Sperone Westwater 14 September-28 October 2006 Kyung Jeon: “The Impulse Garden” The Proposition 16 September-28 October 2006 Chie Fueki: “Lucky, Star, Super, Hero” Mary Boone 9 September-21 October 2006 Pop appropriation meets eroticism in the work of Liu Ye and Kyung Jeon. These artists remind us of the persistence of sexuality throughout … Continued

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

Robin Hill: Multiplying the Variations

University Art Gallery School of Fine and Performing Arts California State University, Sanlislaus Turlock, California September 7 to October 5, 2006 Cotton batting, plywood, ping pong balls, washers, stand-mounted lights, disused filing cabinets, plaster, wax, computers and CD players were among the unlikely list of items in Robin Hill’s recent exhibition at CSU Stanislaus. Her … Continued

Amy Myers, Chroma Zoma Bubble Chamber, 2006. Graphite , colored pencil and soft pastel on paper, 88 x 90 inches. Courtesy Mike Weiss Gallery
Sunday, October 1st, 2006

A Magically-Engendered World: Amy Myers at Mike Weiss

Her watercolors refer to subatomic particles, galactic forces and sexual organs.

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Alexi Worth at DC Moore, Joe Coleman at Jack Tilton

ALEXI WORTH: COUPLES DC Moore until October 7 (724 Fifth Avenue at 57 Street, 212 247 2111) JOE COLEMAN Jack Tilton until October 4 (8 East 76 Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenues, 212 737 2221)     The girl in Alexi Worth’s “Beautiful Unfinishable Magazine” (all works 2006) crouches in a moulded plastic Eames … Continued

Walking With Me 1997, charcoal, shellac, oil and pastel on paper, 67 x 30 inches, Courtesy the Block Museum of Art and the Artist
Friday, September 1st, 2006

Jim Dine: Some Drawings, at the Block Museum, Evanston

As Dine exhibits at the Morgan Library, a 2006 review of an Illinois show.

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Isca Greenfield-Sanders: Pinelawn Pools

Goff & Rosenthal 537B W 23 Street New York City 212-675-0461 September 7 to October 14, 2006 Isca Greenfield-Sanders alters found images, faded photographs from the 1960s, using digital manipulation and traditional oil painting. The resultant mixed media paintings and sketches in her “Pinelawn Pools” series depict a family lounging about a familiar suburban swimming … Continued

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Norbert Schwontkowski and Jockum Nordström

Norbert Schwontkowski: “We Make Any Size of Mirror” (Norbert Schwontkowski and Forrest Bess, Philip Guston, Alex Katz, Pablo Picasso) Mitchell-Innes & Nash 1018 Madison Ave New York City September 21 through November 22 Jockum Nordström David Zwirner 525 West 19th Street New York City September 8 – October 14, 2006 Jockum Nordström and Norbert Schwontkowski … Continued