Cassie Raihl: Appetites

Cassie Raihl at DODGEgallery By Candace Moeller Cassie Raihl: Appetites 11 July – 16 August 2013 DODGEgallery 15 Rivington Street New York, NY 10002 http://dodge-gallery.com DODGEgallery continues to serve up a mouthwatering selection of art with its current exhibition Appetites, the gallery’s first solo show with artist Cassie Raihl. Raihl is a sculptor and mixed…

Bushwick Open Studios 2013

BOS 2013 BY Candace Moeller Bushwick Open Studios was this past weekend, but if you missed it, make a note in your 2014 calendars to attend.  Now.  Because I have to say, this weekend was simply divine, and one of the best times I’ve had recently while looking at art.  Despite the oppressive heat and…

Julie Mehretu: Liminal Squared

Julie Mehretu: Liminal Squared, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York by esartia First time I encountered Julie Mehretu’s work was in a fashion magazine. I’d like to say that it was the large spread of her equally large painting that intrigued me most, because the grandiose scale of painting (just look at Gagosian’s Anselm Kiefer) and…

Matthew Barney: The Enigma of a Performative Practice

Matthew Barney: The Enigma of a Performative Practice by a.c. surga The video and sculpture installations of Matthew Barney have provoked strong critical reaction, both positive and negative. While some call his works brilliantly inventive and compare them to the radical projects of Vito Acconci, others see them as garish displays of kitsch. Whether they…

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

A Visit to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. by Lauren Kolumbic As spring struggled to descend on Washington D.C., delaying the celebrated arrival of the cherry blossoms and the associated outdoor festivities, I took advantage of the chilly weather and visited the Hirshhorn. I was not sure what to expect from this…

Outsider Art

by A.C. Surga What can wood-carved animals, a healing machine, tombstones, and chicken bones structures have in common? At the Philadelphia Museum, the visitor can find all of these under the Outsider Art Exhibition on view until the 9th of June. Outsider Art comprises all artworks made by people without formal artistic training, from Sunday…

Stories from Solar winds

by kesartia If looking at Robert Petersen’s latest body of work makes you flashback to Robert Rauschenberg, you are right on the mark.This month Jim Kempner’s gallery presents Mr. Petersen’s series of collages that the artist categorized as an homage to late Rauschenberg’s obsession with Thomas Gainsborough’s Blue Boy.  As the legend goes, Blue Boy was the first painting that made…