By Cole Tracy New York, NY- As opposed to his normal practice of working from news images, Thomas Demand turns his focus onto the everyday shots from his cellphone in “Dailies,” an exhibition on view through December 21 at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York City. The strange paradigm of looking at these ordinary moments, sculpturally recreated by Demand and then photographed, is serendipitous yet simultaneously meticulous. Each photograph shows a moment of solitude within an urban setting, with the end result looking like a visual diary. But each image was produced over several months, during which time Demand perfects these quiet moments into a miniature reality. The dye transfer prints look almost surreal; the information attained and the beautifully accurate color saturation give the images an even stronger life-like feel. This show addresses the everyday, and lonesomeness … [Read more...] about Thomas Demand: Dailies at Matthew Mark Gallery
Exhibits
George Nick: A Lifetime of Self-Portraits at Nesto Gallery
By Cole Tracy Milton, MA- George Nick, one of the pre-eminent American realist painters, has been doing the same work, painstakingly, since the abstract-expressionists were reigning in the 1960s; a collection of his self-portraits is on view at the Nesto Gallery at Milton Academy through December 13. Behind the work, there is an intense ideology of painting from reality. His images are definitive of this: the brushstrokes are swift and visible in most of the paintings; his name and date are etched into a corner of the image, added while the paint was still wet. It is clear each of the paintings was made in one sitting. Nick’s face changes little but the light quality as well as his perception led him to create many varying images of his own face. By painting from reality, he forces himself to focus on his perceived reality with intensive ardor. There are several excerpts of … [Read more...] about George Nick: A Lifetime of Self-Portraits at Nesto Gallery
Artscoped!: Revisiting Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein
By Cole Tracy The Myth Makers, a two-person artistic collaboration between Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein produce sculptures based around the ‘mystical relationship between human beings and the animal kingdom’. These sculptors were first covered in the Andy Moerlein and Donna Dodson: In a Collaborative Spirit headlined article by Elizabeth Michelman in the September/October 2011 issue. Following this inaugural coverage, they were reviewed for being part of Convergence: The Boston Sculptors Gallery 20th Anniversary Exhibition in the January/February 2013 issue. A large (twenty-five feet) seated bird made of sticks titled ‘Poised’ was shown as well as Dodson’s personal creation: ‘The Tiger Mothers’. These human-esque feminine animals are symbolic for the tribe of motherhood. The Tiger Mothers has recently been loaned to the Sothern New Hampshire University, where they stand proudly … [Read more...] about Artscoped!: Revisiting Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein
Artscoped!: Revisiting Sand T Kalloch
By Cole Tracy Malaysian born artist Sand T Kalloch has been within the pages of Artscope several times, once in an early issue covering her work at artSPACE@16, of which she is the owner. Then in the January/ February 2013 edition she was interviewed in a section of cornered, focusing on her showing at Aqua Art Miami, an ArtBasel satellite fair. Since then she has had even more exciting developments in her work. Currently she is working on a large-scale project in Singapore, which will be installed on two curved walls each one hundred feet long. The project is set for completion in summer 2016. She was shown within the Palm Spring Art Fair as well as Art Toronto by Jennifer Kostuik Gallery. In addition she was selected to be part of a two-person show at The Trustman Art Gallery of Simmons College. Finally, she has a new two-person exhibit at the McGaldrey Art Gallery in … [Read more...] about Artscoped!: Revisiting Sand T Kalloch
The Country Between Us at The New Art Center
By Cole Tracy Newton, MA- "The Country Between Us,” on view at the New Art Center in Newton through December 20, takes its title from Carolyn Forche's book of poetry that focuses on her personal experiences as a journalist dealing with violence in El Salvador. The show, curated by Ariel Freiberg, whose work is joined in the exhibition by Resa Blatman, Susan Still Scott and Zsuzsanna Varga Szegedi, takes on a political position. While this work does not come out and make a definitive statement, it addresses perceptions of the body as well as the changing landscape, two crucial facets to our modern identity. The show is cohesive due to its questioning of painting, with each artist pushing the medium to fit their needs. Freiberg confuses the genre initially by painting images she has already collaged, which originated in high quality magazine advertisements. The decontextualization … [Read more...] about The Country Between Us at The New Art Center
William Eggleston: At Zenith
At Gagosian New York Gallery By Nancy Nesvet New York City, NY - “William Eggleston: At Zenith,” currently showing at Gagosian New York Gallery, includes 15 large-scale pigment prints, each measuring 44” X 60”, from Eggleston’s “Wedgewood Blue” cloud series. The prints result from a 1978 photographic exercise when Eggleston lay on the ground during daylight in Tennessee and aimed his early instant camera at celestial zenith, directly overhead. The resulting views of fluffy clouds in a cerulean blue sky present postcard images, in keeping with Eggleston’s history of as a flaneur, incorporating fragments of his world into his photographic oeuvre. These photographs, from 1979 negatives, printed digitally from scans of the original negatives allow a color saturation that exceeds that of the dye transfer process Eggleston used in past work, and continues a tradition of cloud painting … [Read more...] about William Eggleston: At Zenith