The 29
artists in this exhibition clearly have a story to tell but ultimately leave the viewer to imagine and speculate; posing questions rather than revealing answers.
Not exact matches
The
exhibition intends to feature both
artists who
clearly use traditional drawing methods to forge their artistic language, and
artists — who although not traditional draughtsmen, have produced works which can be closely related to a vision of what does,
in fact, constitute a drawing.
Saturday was marked by migrating crowds of various sizes that moved from building to building, from floor to floor taking
in exhibitions at small make - shift art collective show spaces,
artist studios and some more
clearly identified art galleries like the Fuchs Project and Robert Henry Contemporary.
The seven drawings created for his
exhibition at the Hammer Museum
clearly demonstrate the
artist's fluency
in various dialects of the common abstract language, resonating with Constructivist and Minimalist tones and with a few refrains
in less analytical abstract traditions.
While the work
in the
exhibition was
clearly conceptualized by the
artist, it would seem unfair to call it a «solo,» as Thomas did not create this
exhibition alone.
However, the divide between the collaborative and relatively more open atmosphere of the West Coast
artists and the New York School is
clearly on display
in this
exhibition and its related materials.
The Tate
exhibition clearly demonstrates that many of these
artists are key figures deserving of a place
in the canon of art history and a great deal more attention and study.
There are plenty of metaphors to be contemplated when looking at Tomek's work, and this
exhibition seems to
clearly capture a pivotal point
in the
artists progression.
Of course, this is for the most part misremembered bunk: Flavin was no mystic and his work — as this recent
exhibition, the first appearance of the late
artist at David Zwirner since the gallery began representing his estate,
clearly demonstrated — is
in practice more correctly aligned with the unadorned, system - based Minimalist programs of Sol LeWitt, Carl Andre, or Donald Judd than with any of the
We have here a kind of stereotype that is perceptible
in his work, and that may represent an important complicating factor of reflection, as well as an assessment for this Neapolitan
exhibition, where Wade Guyton
clearly appears as what he is: a leading American
artist.
This tendency is most
clearly encapsulated
in the
artist's abstract stencils of Baroque - style decorative motifs, which recall the wallpaper - inspired paintings of his contemporary Christopher Wool, as well as
in the highly patterned carpets that recently graced the walls and floors of Stingel's 2013 solo
exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice.
The title of the show hints at something never
clearly articulated
in the
exhibition itself: the fact that the gender of
artists is as much at stake as that of the subjects.
According to Nye, soft power rests on several resources, one of them being its culture (
in places where it is attractive to others), which is
clearly demonstrated by
artists in this
exhibition.
At the Hayward Gallery
in 1989 was Ades's show (on which Brett was a key collaborator) Art
in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820 - 1980, while
in 1990 Brett curated the smaller but also influential Transcontinental: Nine Latin American
Artists at the Ikon Gallery
in Birmingham, following it
in 1999 with a solo
exhibition of the work of Victor Grippo, also at the Ikon, and with Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic
in 2000 at the Hayward Gallery, London, the
exhibition which most
clearly continued the aesthetic concerns first raised through Signals.
Art about the institutions of art, both physical and discursive, is hardly a new phenomenon, but unlike Marcel Broodthaers and Hans Haacke, cited by Doeringer as predecessors for the work included
in this
exhibition, what emerges most
clearly here is not «institutional critique» but a sense of anxiety or anger about the
artists» own marginalization and lack of mainstream success.
e are told by Jennifer R. Gross,
in the catalogue accompanying this focused
exhibition of Jim Nutt's work (even with 70 paintings and drawings it is not a retrospective or a survey), that the
artist «has expressed surprise that his unidentified women have been seen as male rather than as the
clearly female subjects he intended.
When,
in his pompous, post-September 11th introduction to the
exhibition, chief curator Lawrence Rinder writes that «what is American art, what is an American
artist, and what is a museum of American art have taken on a keen and tragic importance,» he is
clearly aware of this conundrum and of the need to move away from a centralized, institutional conception of American and American art.
[1] This text complies with the
artist's preferred title style, as documented
in the exhibition catalogue: «In keeping with Bruce Conner's clearly articulated wish, the titles of his works are given in all capital letters without italics.&raqu
in the
exhibition catalogue: «
In keeping with Bruce Conner's clearly articulated wish, the titles of his works are given in all capital letters without italics.&raqu
In keeping with Bruce Conner's
clearly articulated wish, the titles of his works are given
in all capital letters without italics.&raqu
in all capital letters without italics.»
While Spaces — a recent
exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center highlighting the
artists and galleries of St. Claude — may not completely capture the raucous spirit of the downtown art scene, a weekend protest by some of the
artists involved
in the show more
clearly illustrates the divide between St. Claude Avenue and Julia Street.
This follows her participation
in the gallery's fifth themed group
exhibition «Around Drawing», which gathered
artists who
clearly use traditional drawing methods to forge their artistic language, and
artists — who although not traditional draughtsmen, have produced works which can be closely related to a vision of what does,
in fact, constitute a drawing.
The final
artist in the series is Luc Tuymans, who - like all the
artists in the
exhibition - is
clearly interested
in images not as a semblance of reality, but as they might be imagined.
Whereas Rowland's 2016
exhibition at
Artists Space, «91020000»,
clearly established the benches as an artwork, Lawler again alters their museum context to challenge the viewer to consider both what it means to have a body that sees, and the space
in which that body sees.