Dear John, Your show, Immediate Horizon, at Weekend is quite wonderful. The cyanotype photograms are like flags, and like paintings, and like curtains – curtains over doorways, perhaps. Remember the movement in 1970s painting that was called Support/Surfaces? Do … Continue reading
Beer cans, connectedness in the digital age, and Comme des Garcons
There was a book lying near Alice on the table, and she turned over the leaves, to find some part that she could read, “For it’s all in some language I don’t know,” she said to herself. “Ideally, what should … Continue reading
A conversation with Zach Kleyn, Corrie Siegel, Amanda Leigh Evans, Gregory Michael Hernandez, and Geoff Tuck. Geoff Tuck: I remember our conversation Zach, and I appreciated then that you sparked off a fascinating hour. On the subject of religion and … Continue reading
From American Art, Spring 1996 (included among gallery bibliography for Mark Ruwedel): “In the process of decay, and in it alone, the events of history shrivel up and become absorbed in history.” Walter Benjamin1 And then further in the same … Continue reading
It comes from a dark place, this sculpture; not as though its making was sad or depressing, but as though light doesn’t get to where it was created – the place is too deep. This dark object is inscrutable, not … Continue reading
I saw Justin John Greene’s paintings in an open studio event at the Central and 15th Street studios on April 21st. I was struck by their naturalness, by what seemed to me a skilfull but not a fussy way of rendering figures. … Continue reading
Meteor Shower I read online somewhere, without verifying elsewhere, that many of the stars we see at night are not individual stars but clusters of usually two or three or more. Their starlight travels across space and time, converging into … Continue reading
John Mills’ paintings employ a minimum of tools to great effect. Looking at them is like listening to the quiet man at a party – at first through the crush of boldly-dressed characters and the hollow din of voices and … Continue reading
[DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. Just as all my wine embellished memories are.] The sudden shift from the construction-site brilliance of the hallway to the comfortable dimness of the studio momentarily shocked my eyes blind. The few other … Continue reading
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