by Alicia | Oct 26, 2012 | Artforum.com, News, Writing
Gilad Ratman ASPECT RATIO 119 N Peoria #3D September 21–October 26 In Israeli artist Gilad Ratman’s five-minute, single-channel video The Days of the Family of the Bell, 2012, ten shaking bodies morph into a variety of temporary organic formations. Through this work,...
by Alicia | Oct 23, 2008 | Art Writing, Artforum.com, Writing
Rodney Graham 10.23.08 AUTHOR: ALICIA ELER 10.10.08-11.14.08 Donald Young Gallery In his sixth solo show at this gallery, Canadian conceptualist Rodney Graham continues to curiously rework historical moments. Rotary Psycho-Opticon (all works 2008), a replica of a...
by Alicia | Sep 19, 2008 | Art Writing, Artforum.com, Writing
In his new body of work, the Chicago-based photographer John Opera skillfully and conspicuously leaps from landscape to abstract photography. When creating works in the former category, Opera nearly takes an ironic jab at the genre’s tropes but ultimately smartly...
by Alicia | Jun 20, 2008 | Artforum.com, Writing
Tom Denlinger’s thoughtful exhibition—of photographs and a video—challenges notions of the local landscape as bland or static. Denlinger brings to the subject a keen sense of three-dimensional space, the museum context, and representations of landscape in art history....