Archive for August, 2020
By: Art Forum on Monday, August 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
Richard Bosman is renowned for his noirish paintings, which often feel like settings for the artist himself to play out his hard-boiled fantasies full of bloody knives, mutilated bodies, and dimly lit
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By: Art Forum on Monday, August 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
Each of the nine spaces of Tomás Saraceno’s exhibition “Aria” (Air) is introduced by one of the thirty-three cards making up the artist’s Arachnomancy Cards, 2018. Previously presented at the 2019 Venice
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By: Art Forum on Monday, August 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT and respected Chilean artists of her generation, Lotty Rosenfeld is best known as a founding member of CADA (Colectivo Acciones de Arte) and for an incisive solo practice
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By: Art Forum on Monday, August 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
Looking at Lewis Hammond’s deeply introverted works online before I ventured out of the house earlier this summer to see his show “Still Life,” I could imagine the oil paint recoiling from the overhead
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By: Art Forum on Monday, August 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
THE LAND SURROUNDING the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers—site of current-day Portland, Oregon, and its greater metropolitan area—was not that long ago one of the navels of continental
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By: Art Forum on Monday, August 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
For more than twenty-five years, Rebecca Morris has been constructing a visual language that can be read as obtuse yet direct, historical and personal, abstract but also unabashedly literal. Her syntax
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By: Art Forum on Monday, August 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
IN EARLY JUNE, as heat turned up around the uprisings in defense of Black lives, I saw an Instagram story by the wildly talented artist and musician DonChristian Jones. He had been entrusted with a
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By: Art Forum on Monday, August 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
Paul Mpagi Sepuya makes images that coyly invite close looking. In what are essentially studio portraits, Sepuya photographs his subjects—himself, his friends, and his cameras—in mirror reflections that
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By: Art Forum on Monday, August 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
Katherine McKittrick is a professor of gender studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (2006) and Dear
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By: Art Forum on Monday, August 31st, 2020 at 11:00 pm
For her second exhibition at Galerie Imane Farès, Alia Farid applied tinted vinyl to the gallery’s glass-front facade to cast its interior in pink light. The rosy atmosphere, like that of an equatorial
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