Sorry for Being a Genius: Aida Makoto at the Mori Art Museum

02/28/2013

Aida Makoto, Picture of Waterfall, 2007-10, Acrylic on canvas, 439 x 272 cm.; Collection: The National Museum of Art, Osaka / Courtesy: Mizuma Art Gallery

This article was originally published by Artslant on Feb 28, 2013. “There is no more chastity in the Young-Girl than there is debauchery. The Young-Girl simply lives as a stranger to her desires, whose coherence is governed by her market-driven superego.” —Tiqqun,Preliminary Materials for a… +

Mashed Up and Shredded into Space: An Interview with Candida Alvarez

01/24/2013

The following interview was originally published in Art21 in January, 2013. I was down at the Hyde Park Art Center this last December. The doors to the main gallery on the first floor were closed when I arrived but I could sense movement behind… +

Ghost Nature

01/17/2013

Ghost Nature, Gallery 400, Chicago, 2014 (installation view). Left: Heidi Norton, Anaphase Mutated, 2014, glass, resin, plants, paint, wood, 61 1/2 x 52 in. Right: Akosua Adoma Owusu, Anancy, 2012, video and slides, 2:00 min.

Ghost Nature, Gallery 400, Chicago, 2014 (installation view). Left: Jenny Kendler, Camouflage V (Ultra-deflector for endangered Bird of Paradise), 2013, vintage porcelain bird, glue, paperclay, acrylic, gold leaf, 10 x 6 x 6 in. Center: Assaf Evron, Untitled, (sRGB 1996), 2012, MDF and epoxy, 32 x 35 x 18 in. Right: Carrie Gundersdorf, Four Sections of Saturn’s Rings, 2013, colored pencil and watercolor on paper, 40 x 60 in.

Akosua Adoma Owusu. ” Anance,” 2013, dual video projection, 1.37 min. Installation view, La Box, ENSA, 2014.

Ghost Nature, La Box, Bourges, 2014. Installation View.

Ghost Nature was featured in issue 7 of the Journal for Artistic Research. La Box, ENSA, Bourges: January – April, 2014. Gallery 400, Chicago: January 17 – March 1, 2014. Artists: Sebastian Alvarez, Art Orienté objet (Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin), Jeremy Bolen, Irina… +

The Undead Tree of Charles Ray

11/24/2012

Charles Ray, “Hinoki,” 2007. © 2007 Charles Ray. Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles.

The following essay was originally published by Art21 in 2012. Charles Ray’s massive reproduction of a fallen redwood tree, Hinoki, fills one room in the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago. The room it occupies was built around the work. At 2,100 pounds and 38 feet… +

The Past Lives of Books

11/24/2012

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Rachel Whiteread. “Untitled (Stair),” 2001.

Judith Brotman. “Natural Selections,” 2005. Leaf, thread, trim

Ox scapula with a divination inscription from the Shang Dynasty, dating to the reign of King Wu Ding. (Wikipedia).

Euclid’s Elements: Book I, Proposition 1: wherein an equilateral triangle is made using the radii of two equal circles.

Excerpt from Dan Graham’s“Homes for America 1966,” published in Arts Magazine, December 1966-January 1967.

House of an unknown Chinese author in an abandoned cottage in Chongqing, China. Image courtesy of Croatian Times, 2010.

Rachel Whiteread. “Untitled (Paperbacks),” 1997. Plaster and steel. 15 x 16 x 20′ as installed at MoMA

Jonathan Saffron Foer. “The Tree of Codes,” 2010. Inside view.

The following essay was originally published by Art21 in November, 2012. Walter Benjamin allegedly had an opportunity to leave Germany when Axis borders were still somewhat porous. Had he chosen to flee then, it’s likely he would have survived the war. To do so,… +