Posted in Opinion on Apr 16th, 2011
The written component of my senior thesis for SVA. I used the assignment to grapple with why landscapes were important to me personally, as well as how they function within and reflect contemporary society. The View From Here Art shows us ourselves outside of language. It taps into a collective store of beliefs, visions, and [...]
Posted in Opinion on Sep 12th, 2010
This weekend, I saw a show that I highly recommend to those of you residing in NYC. Gerhard Richter at The Drawing Center. I wrote a review of it, it can be found here, on Duckrabbit’s blog. “Gerhard Richter’s lines are full of contradiction. At a glance, they appear to be gestural; pencil scribbles making [...]
Posted in Opinion on May 10th, 2010
I reviewed Dawn Clements work on Duckrabbit Digital’s blog. Excerpt below. The entire post can be found here. Happy reading! “Dawn Clements’ large drawings bear the scars of her process. Wrinkled, torn, and dirty, they mark an artist who physically throws herself into her work by kneeling on paper, dragging it across the room to [...]
Posted in Opinion on Nov 10th, 2009
The physical world has become pixels, widely available on the Internet but difficult to access corporally. Previously sublime natural wonders have lost their power in the face of camera lenses; now, they are recorded rather than seen, reduced to small jpegs that fly into the wilds of the Internet. The Internet links the world together [...]
Until October 9th, I had never seen Jeff Wall’s work in person; I had pored over reproductions in art books, feasted on his writings, and modeled my own work in his shadow, but never stood in front of his images. On October 9th, I did, and I didn’t feel a thing. Mr. Wall has had [...]
Posted in Opinion on Oct 13th, 2009
Graphite becomes sentient in its imperfection. A pencil traces over paper, giving way to fibers in the surface. It changes over the short time it takes to draw the line; becoming blunt, shifting tone. In these ever-evolving lines, the artist is preserved. Mood and personality are contained in the weight and the brevity of the [...]