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In Pursuit of Sounds and Visions: Ryan Russo’s Sound and Vision at Galerie Gris
In his exhibition at Hudson’s Galerie Gris, Brooklyn based artist Ryan Russo continues his examination with film as a tactile source material, opposed to a time-based sequence of images. Utilizing VHS tapes of seminal Hollywood films as well as cassettes of audio tunes, the artist transfers their magnetic oxide coatings containing visual and audial data
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Avant-garde Buries The Mainstream: The Decay of Patriarchy at MAD and THINGS at Participant Inc
The Museum of Arts and Design recently completed Eye on a Director: Canyon Cinema, a series of screenings dedicated to San Francisco’s legendary avant-garde film center Canyon Cinema. MAD’s program reserved August 11th to pioneer feminist filmmakers among which were Abigail Child, Barbara Hammer and JoAnn Elam. Entitled Secession: The Decay of Patriarchy, the screening was
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Interview with Charlotte Cotton
When I talked to Charlotte Cotton over the phone in-between her busy schedule, she had recently arrived to L.A—a city the renown photography curator considers special for her career which includes a curatorial position at LACMA. Cotton—the Curator-in-Residence at the recently-opened ICP Museum in Lower East Side—is on the West Coast for a residency at
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Foley Gallery’s High Summer Steps Out of the Shade
[caption id="attachment_10539" align="alignnone" width="300"] High Summer at Foley Gallery[/caption] ‘It is perfectly natural for the Sun to shine initially on the upper lefthand corner of the first page of this book’ Francis Ponge, The Sun Placed in the Abyss Francis Ponge was referred to as ‘the poet of things’ for his ability to elevate the
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Interview with Elisabeth Biondi
When I visited Elisabeth Biondi at her TriBeCa apartment, where she lives with her five-year old dog Boris, she had just returned from teaching at The Photography Master Retreat, a week-long immersive course bringing together a group of international photographers in a small village in southern France to discuss their works. “We eat, drink but
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Nan Goldin’s “Ballad” Resonates at MoMA
*All images are from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Nan Goldin, 1979-2004, Multimedia installation with 690 slides and a programmed soundtrack at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. On view between now and February 12, 2017 at the Museum of Modern Art is The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Nan Goldin’s landmark ode to Downtown New York
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A New Country, A New Shore: Jesse Chun’s On Paper at Spencer Brownstone Gallery
[caption id="attachment_10458" align="alignnone" width="246"] Jesse Chun, Blueprints #1, 2015[/caption] Effortlessly dispersed on an otherwise blank sheet, words ‘mother’, ‘father’, ‘all sons and daughters’ and ‘regardless of age or place’ utter in the viewers’ mouths, debuting a startling poem brimming with countless untold tales of new territories and fresh beginnings. [caption id="attachment_10459" align="alignnone" width="300"] Installation view
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Interview with Erica Baum
[caption id="attachment_9956" align="alignnone" width="300"] Erica Baum, Investigation, 2014[/caption] Erica Baum is one of the most intriguing photography artists working today. Baum’s scrutinizing of optic limitations images and words perpetuate bears riveting results, in which their commonly attributed potentials shatter to unravel new territories for ‘looking’. Experiencing her Naked Eye, Dog Ear or Card Catalogue series,
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Bas Jan Ader at Metro Pictures
Solemn, contemplative and evasive; the arresting art of Bas Jan Ader—the Dutch-born and Los Angeles-based artist who sailed to an eternal journey at the age of thirty-three from Massachusetts in attempt to orchestrate what would be his grandest work of art—is not an easy one to immerse in. [caption id="attachment_9917" align="alignnone" width="300"] Bas Jan Ader,