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Un-Postmodern Photography
Lyle Rexer recently gave a lecture at the Scandinavian House on a group of photographers only now starting to be exhibited here in the States, the Helsinki School, whose characteristics include a propensity for abstract experimentation and an ambition to determine how … Continue reading
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Tagged Bryce Wolkowitz, Helsinki School, Lyle Rexer, Niko Luoma, Scandinavian House
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The Real Failure Desk
Early last month, Auxiliary Projects housed William Powhida for a discussion about art’s place in daily life. “Can We Talk About Art?” followed the loose rule of not mentioning the inequities of the market, but still many couldn’t help seizing … Continue reading
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Tagged Auxiliary Projects, Jennifer Dalton, Jennifer McCoy, William Powhida
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Walk-Thru to Wall St.
Workers are digging a trench at the corner of Franklin and Pine. Signs tell me Prospect is a one-way, so is Liberty. Caribbean and American food is advertised above Tommy’s Deli. I see the sign, but I’m more interested in … Continue reading
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Anney Bonney: Tod Wizon @ WG Gallery
Wizon’s paintings reanimate the endangered genre of landscape into private delirium. Perspectives may dizzy or entangle. What’s figurative chases abstraction into a self-reflexive cycle because Wizon paints timeless, time-lapse inscapes. They take root in ambiguity. Maybe you know his work. … Continue reading
Thoughts on the Existence of an Avant-Garde
A welcomed Hudson-Valley-induced amnesia surrounding the idea of commercialism inevitably killing any bourgeoning art movement led to considerations of art looking like nothing I’d ever seen. The media’s influence of who’s important and what’s good isn’t nearly as potent as … Continue reading
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Dear Mother Nature @ Dorsky Museum
The stigma of the Hudson Valley is that it’s a retirement community, that the art here is made by hobbyists. It’s an idea that has roots in the movement some art history tells us was the first one to come … Continue reading
Rebecca Strauss
Rebecca Strauss transforms wood and metal into an anemone whose fingers move in unison with the sea-bottom current, or into a company of dancers performing the movement of a wilting flower. Sensors detect viewers’ motion, which triggers the program telling … Continue reading
Attack on Gramercy Park
Rocks made of plastic sit askew on beds of yellow leaves in Gramercy Park. Keys to houses are hidden inside similar ones on suburban doorsteps. Most people see them through bars; thin vertical black lines with spikes on top of … Continue reading
Ariel Gonzalez
Poughkeepsie is where sky and water intersect bridges and rails. A new setting of dichotomies, it’s the perfect place for Ariel Gonzalez’s modernistic creative process of combining digital photographs with gesso and oil. Color fields disintegrate into luminous foggy landscapes in his … Continue reading
