“BC’s decentralized artistic approach took a critical position toward the commoditization of the singular artist’s identity while exploring capitalism’s strange existential slippages.”
Tag: Art in America
Notebook: Chris Kraus at RFA
“In 2011, I had a chance to speak with Kraus about her films, which were shown at Real Fine Arts (RIP) under the BQE on the border of industrial Greenpoint.”
Notebook: WORDS ARE PEOPLE – Karl Holmqvist
“I can’t look at the title of the show without hearing it echoing in my head in Holmqvist’s monotonous, lilting yet powerful tone.”
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.”
Art in America: “Tyler Dobson”
“The press release stated that the source for the words was ‘a text that the artists came across one day,’ one ‘obviously written by a gallerist.'”
Art in America: “Caleb Considine”
“Figure, ground and texture frequently trade places in a general atmosphere of sober unearthliness.”
Art in America: “Kim Gordon: Guitars, Guns, Goo”
“I think women are natural anarchists because you’re always operating in a male framework.”
Art in America: “Bjarne Melgaard: Painter as Pig, Painting as Prostitute”
“I think it is interesting how you corrupt your own work, in the sense of how you also corrupt yourself.”