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Critic’s Pick: “We’ll All Make Out Better Than Okay” / Artforum.com

Critic’s Pick: “We’ll All Make Out Better Than Okay” / Artforum.com

Dec 13, 2013 | Artforum.com, News, Writing

“We'll All Make Out Better Than Okay” CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION 1000 W. 25th Street October 25–December 20 A giant white gym sock covering a robotic arm that once functioned in a Detroit auto-manufacturing plant speaks in a deadening monotone to passersby. He talks...

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Artforum.com Critic’s Pick: MOUNT @ Haw Contemporary KCMO

Artforum.com Critic’s Pick: MOUNT @ Haw Contemporary KCMO

Oct 25, 2013 | Artforum.com, News, Writing

Kansas City “Mount” HAW/CONTEMPORARY 1600 Liberty September 13–November 2 Donna Huanca, Cuban Rebels (The Last Supper), 2007, fabric on canvas, 8’ 4” x 11’ 7”. In this group exhibition, curator Peregrine Honig channels the historically romanticized American cowboy,...

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Critic’s Pick: Abigail DeVille at Iceberg Projects / Artforum.com

Critic’s Pick: Abigail DeVille at Iceberg Projects / Artforum.com

May 15, 2013 | Artforum.com, News, Writing

Abigail DeVille ICEBERG PROJECTS 7714 N Sheridan Road April 13–June 1, 2013 If “X” marks the spot, and three Xs mean “poison, do not drink,” the seven Xs that make up the title of Abigail DeVille’s exhibition suggest a marking of double the poison, plus one drop for...

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Critic’s Pick: Dutes Miller’s “In the Garden” / Artforum.com

Critic’s Pick: Dutes Miller’s “In the Garden” / Artforum.com

Jan 14, 2013 | Artforum.com, News, Writing

  Dutes Miller’s queer utopia is a romp through Adam and Steve’s Garden of Eden. “In the Garden” presents the gallery-as-landscape peppered with clusters of oddly sexualized finger-fungi outgrowths harvesting on patches of fake grass, blotched-out images of...

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Critic’s Pick: Gilad Ratman at Aspect Ratio Gallery / Artforum.com

Critic’s Pick: Gilad Ratman at Aspect Ratio Gallery / Artforum.com

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,...

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Critic’s Pick: Rodney Graham at Donald Young Gallery / Artforum.com

Critic’s Pick: Rodney Graham at Donald Young Gallery / Artforum.com

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...

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Critic’s Pick: John Opera at Andrew Rafacz Gallery / Artforum.com

Critic’s Pick: John Opera at Andrew Rafacz Gallery / Artforum.com

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...

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Critic’s Pick: “Ladylike: A Proper Take on Feminist Art” at Koscielak Gallery / Artforum.com

Critic’s Pick: “Ladylike: A Proper Take on Feminist Art” at Koscielak Gallery / Artforum.com

Jul 8, 2008 | Art Writing, Artforum.com, Writing

“Ladylike: A Proper Take on Feminist Art” KOSCIELAK GALLERY 1646 N. Bosworth Ave. June 13–July 31, 2008 Jessica Hannah, Showroom No. 6 (Robot Lady Talking on Phone), 2008. Performance view. One wouldn’t expect an exhibition titled “Ladylike” to present a view of...

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Critic’s Pick: Tom Denlinger at rowland contemporary / Artforum.com

Critic’s Pick: Tom Denlinger at rowland contemporary / Artforum.com

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....

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