Flickering Insight from the Whitechapel’s “Electronic Superhighway”
“The internet does not exist,” wrote Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle in e-flux journal’s critical anthology of the same name. Perhaps…
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What Should Art “Do”? The Eccentrics’ Vital Nonsense in a Time of Crisis
What should artists do in a time of crisis? This grave question haunted the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth-century. In the wake of…
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In Search of Himself: Sky Glabush’s Mimetic Practice Drifts Into the Neo-Modernist Trend
“Artists don’t own the meaning of their work.” New York Times critic Roberta Smith issued this controversial and affecting line to a full auditorium…
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Emergence and Ruin in Carol Wainio
Carol Wainio is a wonderful and troubling painter. For decades, a constant inventiveness in the ways of handling paint, of creating figures and spaces, has…
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The Sadean Woman: Tricia Middleton and the Violence of Art
Tricia Middleton came late to showing in commercial galleries. In a career spanning fifteen years, her late-2014 exhibition at Jessica Bradley Gallery in Toronto…
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The Hermetic Lyricism of Anri Sala
“When I first showed the city footage in Poughkeepsie, [artist] Liam Gillick said to me, ‘Anri, tell me the truth. Tell me that this…
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The Slow, Meditative Optimism of Jillian Kay Ross
Jillian Kay Ross doesn’t make conceptual paintings. She doesn’t question the fundamentals of her medium, or speak critically to any historical lineage. She isn’t…
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The Incautious Abstractions of Erin Loree
I visited Erin Loree’s Toronto studio a couple months before her first commercial exhibition, Midnight Bloom, opened at Angell Gallery in January. Working from…
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Only at Home in a Paradox: M.C. Escher Gets His Artworld Due
Like Gustav Klimt or Claude Monet, the unwilling darlings of dorm room posters everywhere, Maurits Cornelis Escher belongs to the class of meritorious artists…
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Redefining the Sex in the Sale at Birch Contemporary
In the wake of last year’s No Man’s Land: Women Artist’s from The Rubell Family Collection, and the unprecedented Larry Gagosian / Jeffrey Deitch…
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