Sara Macel

In Tribute: Sarah Charlesworth (1947-2013)

[caption id="attachment_3081" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Photo by Matthew C. Lange and Nick Shepard[/caption] Sarah Charlesworth left us a week ago today. I didn’t plan on beginning my run as CCNY’s guest blogger on such an unexpectedly sad note, but here we are. I guess I should start by saying that I had the great honor of

Jorge Alberto Perez

HISTORY IS NOT THE PAST

By Jorge Alberto Perez For Nona Faustine the restitution of her sense of wholeness as an African American woman and artist manifests in the guise of a restoration of the past, emphasis on guise.  Although we see her marching up the steps of City Hall in Manhattan with nothing on but her white Sunday shoes

Jorge Alberto Perez

THE POSITION OF THE SUBJECT

By Jorge Alberto Perez In Roberto Vietri's ongoing project, Trabalho, there is a distinctive visual vocabulary in action that is easy to recognize but vague in its message - and I like that. It is not just that individual images are "open-ended" - the project itself is porous. He photographs marks and traces just as fastidiously as

Jorge Alberto Perez

THE ORIGINAL CHAOS

    It is rare to meet an artist with so much talent in so many mediums as Gloria Duque, whose extreme modesty and humility is equally impressive. She is just as comfortable working with you-name-it, a camera, paint, scratchboard, bronze sculpture, or even what any of us might consider trash  - all to satisfy

Exhibitions

TABLEAU VIVANT, PETIT MORT

By Jorge Alberto Perez Ali Van enters first, slides her shoes off and glides onto the carpet.  She sits like a geisha, legs to the side crossed at the ankles, back perfectly erect.  There is something utterly feminine in her body language, beguiling in both senses of the word and though she may appear demure,

Exhibitions

BEING AND TIME

By Jorge Alberto Perez Without the help of a plot but with the rhythmic coaxing of a 12-string guitar, the one hour and one minute film "Street" by James Nares is absolutely hypnotic. Like Christian Marclay's art-world sensation last year, ("The Clock") "Street" has an addictive quality about it that makes you question the notion

Exhibitions

THE FEELING OF PRESENCE, MAYBE

By Jorge Alberto Perez Okay. So we all know by now that images cannot be trusted. Since Plato, the image (mimesis), indeed representation itself, has been associated with deception. It is certainly true that images today cannot be trusted to be accurate versions of what is real or represented - 'likeness' opting for the approximation

Matthew Leifheit

photo by Matthew Leifheit for CCNY A mercurial poet of visual splendors, Pierre Le Hors challenges the ways in which pictures exist. Photographing transient beauty and anchoring it concretely in this world though the creation of carefully considered objects, Le Hors explores space. “Photography lets me pay attention to the outward appearance of objects, to

Matthew Leifheit

photo by Matthew Leifheit for CCNY conversation with Pacifico Silano Recuperating and reconfiguring icons sliced from pornographic gay magazines of another generation, Pacifico Silano emphasizes the negative space they left behind.  He is included in the upcoming second edition of Jen Bekman’s “Hey Hotshot” exhibition, on view April 6th, 2013 through April 21st, 2013.  

Matthew Leifheit

New works by Rachel Stern, exclusively on CCNY All photographs type-c prints from 8x10 negatives