"Whiting Tennis", Derek Eller
Hey Whiting, you have the whole gallery and you deserve it. Good job. Seriously, the artists two-dimensional wooden panel thing drawings have become outstanding sculptures. Incredible works. Fortunately the silly 'found object organizers' handing on the walls help remind us that not everything in the world is wonderful.
"seven line drawings by picasso" venetia kapernekas gallery
Wow. It's so easy to get Picasso'd out, but this was shockingly great. He makes it look so easy...
"New Prints: Spring 2008" International Print Center New York
Nathaniel Hester gets a 'buy' rating.
"Christopher Wool", Luhring Augustine
Why show those paintings at all when the silkscreens are so much better? It's like when Matthew Barney shows mostly bad props from his mostly overdone movies, it's both uncomfortable and unnecessary.
"Anish Kapoor", Barbara Gladstone
The 21st Street mirrors are fun to experience but not great art. The freaky nuclear smoke stack shaped thing on 24th Street went from interesting to "Oh good my eyes are dying, but in a good way" in the time it took to walk inside. The big shiny needle on 21st Street was just an embarrassment, it's only redeeming factor is that it might make a good place for a dramatic super-villain death.
"Mark Di Suvero", Paula Cooper
What can save us from that giant Mark Di Suvero piece? Maybe Mecha-Godzilla. We can only hope.
"String Based Instrument Study", Tanya Bonakdar
How is it that this project instantly became boring when I saw Olafur Eliasson's name?
"Liam Gillick", Casey Kaplan
These eyeball amusers become more acceptable with the socially relevant title.
"Ken Solomon, Josee Bienvenu Gallery
Laugh out loud clever work, all about the postal system. The best piece being a post box made of boxes all shipped throught he postal system, though I confess I'm suspicious as none of the boxes showed scuff marks on their shiny paint jobs.
"Anne Hardy", Bellwether Gallery
Walked in expecting the typical flinch, but... holy shit. A gallerist lets a good artist show good art, the system works.
Art faux pax of the month: Oh no! We've all created two-dimensional works using nails to create pattern and form! Someone has to go home and change.
1 comment:
thanks. I had a feeling it was the same scam that I got caught into this spring with Art Expo Pier 94. Paid a lot for the space. they didn't spend a DIME on print ads. Only "social media" bullshit. Everyone lost big. I wrote to the attorney general in NY to get our money back and put them out of business. Harder than you think. Stay away from these scams.
Do not Pay to Play.
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