“Their obsessive lines trace a relentless impulse to filch something of the world and its (dis)contents; pictures borrowed to be returned at an unknown future date.”
Author: spectralwp
General Fine Arts: “The Behavior Gap”
“The spirit had coughed up the question, but its bodily messenger had departed, leaving me to answer it alone.”
Art in America: “Sergei Tcherepnin”
“Tcherepnin’s artworks hint at the ineffability and sorcery of hearing, and in an art context could be taken as the revenge of sound on the subordinating reign of vision.”
Art in America: “Helen Marten”
“As we pan slowly over a display of Greek pottery, the Ionic’s voice chirps about suburban development, modern appliances and other signs of middle-class comfort, as if to equate the priceless and museum-worthy with the merely banal.”
Art in America: “Adriana Lara”
“In a way, their limited elements reflect the confined psychic space of the New York art market.”
Art in America: “Tyler Dobson”
“The press release stated that the source for the words was ‘a text that the artists came across one day,’ one ‘obviously written by a gallerist.'”
Art in America: “Caleb Considine”
“Figure, ground and texture frequently trade places in a general atmosphere of sober unearthliness.”
Real Fine Arts: “NADA, nothing”
“Everything is ugly, like the inside of 7-11s, and the look of the streets is familiar from video games.”
Robin Cameron: “Feel the Fear and do it Anyway: Artists, Anxiety, and Writing “
“The book does things on its own now. It hangs out, notices things, gets its feelings hurt, complains.”
“160km” at Kidd Yellin
“The way me and my friends lived was kind of liminal too.”