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Mark Fox @ Shaheen Gallery
Ohio native Mark Fox is known for his delicate and airy wall-mounted assemblages, made from hundreds of small, quirky cutout drawings that are attached to each other using tiny strips of linen tape. Like lace, they create playful shadows as light passes through them and dances on the walls beyond. »
Curtis Mitchell @ Sculpture Center
From a purely visual standpoint, New York artist Curtis Mitchell's work often appears harsh and guttural. Over the past two decades, he has created sculptures and installations using such materials as broken glass, dirt and ketchup. He has also exhibited scorched Oriental rugs and color photographs doused with solvents and reduced to drippy, discordant... »
Ivelisse Jimenez and Lorri Ott @ exit (a gallery space)
From the mid-1960s on, many artists have explored the elastic boundaries of painting as a unique form by abandoning its most obvious conventions. Traditional materials such as canvas and rectangular wooden stretchers were among the first to go. More recently, like-minded painters have made use of an array of commercially manufactured materials such as... »
Jim Hodges @ Battery Park
Jim Hodges: Look and See By Dan Tranberg Jim Hodges’s work has always had its playful side. His latest endeavor, an 11-foot-tall, 50-foot-long sculpture made entirely from one-inch-thick stainless steel, is no exception, forming a kind of abstract... »
“Wasted Beauty” By Eric Bogosian
Least known is Bogosian, the author of books. But his new novel, Wasted Beauty, is in no way the smallest of his accomplishments. A sordid account of lives gone awry, it begins with two seemingly disparate story lines: Reba and Billy are recently orphaned siblings who are forced to try to salvage their parents’... »
Jonathan Lasker
Lasker's identity as a painter was formed white studying at Cal Arts in the mid-1970s, which, in his words, was "a time when painting was presumed to be dead." Faced with the problem of how to reinvigorate the medium, he chose to maintain painting's fundamental pictorial formats; abstract as they are, in many respects... »
“John Szarkowski: Photographs”
John Szarkowski is widely known as a career maker. As director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1962 to 1991, he introduced some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. But long before he accepted that position, he was a photographer — not an amateur, but a... »
Hernan Bas @ Daniel Reich Gallery
Twenty-four-year-old Miami-based artist Hernan Bas is one of a growing number of emerging artists who makes figurative paintings a la Henry Darger, working in an awkward painterly style that blatantly favors psychologically rich narratives over technical mastery. But unlike his stylistic counterparts (Elizabeth Peyton, for instance) Bas delves into a highly charged social landscape,... »