(c) Taryn Simon Taryn Simon, Paperwork and the Will of the Capital is on view at Gagosian Gallery 555 West 24th Street February 18 – March 26, 2016 Throughout much of her artistic career, Taryn Simon (b. 1975) has utilized the power of visual media—including photography, sculpture, video, and performance—to critique … Read More
First Type of Stairs (2010), oil on canvas. My review of Christine Ay Tjoe’s solo as it appeared on ArtAsiaPacific: A curator’s hand can make or break an artist’s work. “Perfect Imperfection,” the first solo exhibition in Korea of prominent Indonesian artist Christine Ay Tjoe, is evidence of one such making. The show reflects the … Read More
For some reason I actually thought that there actually did exist some sort of ontological dispute taking place through or under the guise of an ostensibly linguistic dispute about the definition of art, as manifested by recent lawsuits involving appropriation artists. Silly me. It all comes down to money. Why did I think I could … Read More
View of Yooah Park’s Music Box series (2013) and North Korean posters (from left to right) by Kim In Chang and Ji Jeong Sik. “KOREA” at FiveMyles Gallery 558 St. John’s Place Brooklyn, NYC June 25 – July 13, 2014 The exhibition simply titled “KOREA,” curated by Han Heng-Gil, is a rare occasion, if … Read More
Let’s get straight to the point. Initial thoughts: This new video is interesting for several reasons, but mainly for one: it overturns and/or complicates the arguments about cultural and racial hegemony in my thesis, almost as though it were made in response to the perceived reductivism residing at some points of my reading of the … Read More
Brief thoughts about pop culture spilling into “art” and vice versa: Installation view of The Last Brucennial. Foreground Sculpture: HUSK, 2013 by Parker Shipp, Video:AMERICAN REFLEXXX, 2013 by Alli Coates and Signe Pierce Many people have probably witnessed some of the debates about gender equality and representation when the two music videos for Robin Thicke’s … Read More
View of hauntteddd!! n huntteddd!! n daunttlesss!! n shuntteddd!!, 2013 by Charlemagne Palestine. Twelve-channel sound installation on stairwell landings at the Whitney Biennial 2014. Some of the biggest mistakes I’ve seen people make about art are judgments and (more unfortunately) entire practices based on empty formalism. My observation is neither a strikingly new revelation nor a … Read More
Aftermath of Thomas Albrecht’s Performance at Grace Exhibition Space, Body / Mass, Feb 7, 2014 Preliminary remarks: I decided to forego the no-capitalization policy I have tried very stubbornly to uphold. I wanted to create a more casual and approachable aspect to my writing, and also attempt to eliminate hierarchy that capitalization sometimes bestows on … Read More
it’s easy to fall out of touch with a world–you need only to allow yourself to hang out by cliffside and fall away–half-accident, half-voluntary, with a hint of relief that you are no longer committed to it. the fall-out sheds friendships as well as responsibilities tied to all those things, like love. no pain, no … Read More
if you had told me six months ago that i will be applying to law school, i would have laughed at your face. i have long held a bias against lawyers–i was raised by a liberal mother with an “unconventional” career path (at least, only few would perceive being an artist as a standard 9-5 … Read More
