Category In sight/In mind
In sight / In mind: 3 artists discuss surface
Jaime Davidovich, Analia Segal, and Patricia Villalobos Echeverría – three artists from Latin America – discuss surface in relation to abstraction and how its complexity contradicts any presupposed notion of flatness… [Read More…]
In sight/In mind: Yevgeniy Fiks (Part 2)
Four exhibitions in a year is rare exposure for an artist in New York City, yet Yevgeniy Fiks (b. 1972 Moscow) has accomplished just that; for “In sight/In mind,” Kathleen MacQueen discusses with Fiks the conflation of “spy” with “homosexual” as well as the artist’s application of interventionist tactics to history and social space… [Read More…]
In sight/In mind: Daniel Canogar
In our everyday existence, we face any number of challenges from the banal to the life threatening. Where do we find strength? What are our metaphors for the power to overcome adversity? Such an investigation can take years but, occasionally, a timely event suffices. 1200 individuals stumbled upon inspiration by chance, last month in New York City, when artist Daniel Canogar introduced his project: Storming Times Square…[Read More…]
In sight/In mind: Nightboat Books & Callicoon Fine Arts
I wondered why a literary publication might join forces with a fine art gallery and sat down with publisher Stephen Motika of Nightboat Books and gallery director Photios Giovanis of Callicoon Fine Arts to discuss the converging initiatives of their collaborative endeavors… [Read More…]
In sight/In mind: Jill O’Bryan
Artist Jill O’Bryan divides her year between urban life in New York City and wide open spaces on a mesa in New Mexico. Shifting Connections talks to her about her newest work situated along former Route 66 where the process of her meditative practice yields to the precision of fact… [Read More…]
In Sight/In Mind: Yevgeniy Fiks
Yevgeniy Fiks‘s 3rd solo exhibition at Winkleman Gallery – Homosexuality Is Stalin’s Atom Bomb to Destroy America – derives its title from a 1953 article by Cold War pundit Arthur Guy Mathews. There is no mistaking the homophobic intent of Matthews’s remarks, nor Fiks’s irony by layering images of the first Soviet atom bomb tests with Cold War rhetoric… [Read More…]
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