“I was captivated by her relaxed expression as she drew the exhaled smoke into her nostrils and back out through her mouth.”
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Hanna Liden and Nate Lowman: “Umbrellas and Dropcloths”
“Pedestrians’ sneakers would leave impressions on the slick wet streets, and the sidewalk silt – a mutant peat soil host to cigarette butts, boredom, annoyance, and other nuisances – would build up and finally disappear down the drains, to be stretched and hung on a wall, or hardened in a block of civic concrete.”
Fiction: “Streak of Lightning”
“A raw but dry attraction that makes me think the words: ‘blunt and scalding colors.'”
Real Fine Arts: “Materialism Parts 1 and 2”
“His story was like a moral tale, childishly simple, and I think it was the lack of complexity in the emotions his story conveyed that made me the most suspicious.”
Feral Kid: “Muddy Banks”
“Under the dimming overcast sky, my clothes already damp from the chronic regional mist, I’d walk over to catch the commuter train, which traveled above ground, passing through layers of suburban development, residences growing increasingly dismal and forgotten-seeming, until I arrived at his stop, which had the same name as his street, one of the local proper names, the name of a judge or sheriff or gambler from the previous century, which was used commonly in the place where I grew up and which evokes such a stew of memories, mostly bad, that to pronounce it for me is analogous to a certain queasiness.”
Empire State: “Nate Lowman”
“Their obsessive lines trace a relentless impulse to filch something of the world and its (dis)contents; pictures borrowed to be returned at an unknown future date.”
General Fine Arts: “The Behavior Gap”
“The spirit had coughed up the question, but its bodily messenger had departed, leaving me to answer it alone.”
Art in America: “Sergei Tcherepnin”
“Tcherepnin’s artworks hint at the ineffability and sorcery of hearing, and in an art context could be taken as the revenge of sound on the subordinating reign of vision.”
Art in America: “Helen Marten”
“As we pan slowly over a display of Greek pottery, the Ionic’s voice chirps about suburban development, modern appliances and other signs of middle-class comfort, as if to equate the priceless and museum-worthy with the merely banal.”
Art in America: “Adriana Lara”
“In a way, their limited elements reflect the confined psychic space of the New York art market.”