The fathers of existentialism often explored the concepts of being ‘thrown into existence.’ The fact that we neither asked for, nor gave permission to enter this universe as a conscious being, presents more challenging thoughts than there are sperms fighting to impregnate an egg. However in the context of this article, I act as the stand-in God and am able to choose which metaphorical sperm I wish to break through and develop...
Donna Talerico wows us, once again, with her new paintings of France, currently on view at Greenwich House Gallery in O’Bryonville. Her annual trip to France has been generating some of the most energetic and engaging paintings in this region, where she lives. Talerico manages to be both an Impressionist and an Expressionist at the same time, which is a remarkable feat for a painter...
“Digital” is such a loaded word. On the one hand, it can conjure up veils of endlessly encoded zeros and ones raining down from some unholy matrix, generating the images and white noise pouring forth from our flat screens, entrancing us all with a false and virtual comfort while we while away the hours in our air-conditioned encephalopods, watching the Home Shopping Network or nature shows in HD… Meanwhile, out there somewhere...
German philosopher Walter Benjamin’s angel of history surveys the past and “sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet.” But instead of turning away, the angel is swiftly driven by an irresistible force – the storm of progress – to the future. In the storm’s wake sits the growing pile of detritus....
Uniting gestural abstraction and calligraphic mark making, Frank Satogata celebrates nature’s beautiful juxtapositions.
“Found in Translation: Work by Cynthia Gregory, Christian Schmit and Greg Swiger” at Semantics Gallery is the kind of show at which you can get lost. The mostly miniature/sculptural works are tiny assemblages of objects that range from meticulously crafted to purposefully undone. Diminutive paintings, drawings, furniture, and found objects round out a densely packed gallery of seventy-three discreet pieces—more if you count...
Paul Theroux may best be known as America’s most engaging travel writer; the books that first brought him to my attention were The Great Railway Bizarre and The Old Patagonian Express , which he wrote almost four decades ago. Like Joan Didion, Theroux’s career includes writing both non-fiction and fiction, and his senses of place, landscape, weather, and character of both people and their environments are exemplary.
The Thompson House Shooting Gallery’s exhibition — “All the Usual Suspects” — is oddly titled since it suggests artists who are well known or familiar. But the participants are emerging and unfamiliar to most people although co-curators and gallery directors Jennifer Edwards and Jennifer Feld know them well.
Imagine a cocktail party where everyone knows everyone else and the conversation never stops. That’s Carl Solway Gallery’s 50 th Anniversary exhibition. More than one generation are here, but the young ones know the old ones and refine upon or react against, just like in your...
