The Phenomenon of Light and Shadow: A Q&A with Erin O’Keefe BY TAYLOR DAFOE | APRIL 24, 2017 Picking up in the tradition of still life photographers such as Barbara Kasten and Jan Groover, as well as sculptors like Brancusi and David Smith who used photography to explore the perspectival limitations of their own work, Erin O’Keefe makes pictures that reinvent physical space. She creates sculptures in a sense, but they’re not autonomous; they cannot exist without the photograph. O’Keefe…Read More
“Go for Broke: Cataloguing failure, one bank at a time” By Juliet Helmke | September 15, 2016 “527 is the correct number, a few more failed since info about the project came out,” says artist Michael Mandiberg, counting the number of books that make up his upcoming, site-specific installation “FDIC Insured.” All are cast off investment guidebooks that the artist has repurposed, laser printing their covers with the logo of a US bank that has officially “failed”—meaning it was forced to…Read More
Precarious Weight A graphite-obsessed artist chases a new thread By Scott Indrisek Printed in February Issue 2016 View PDF of article.
Read on Modern Painters Tangible Textures: Trudy Benson and Russell Tyler at Retrospective Gallery By Dana Kopel Posted on September 17, 2015 and printed in November Issue. Trudy Benson’s “Invisible Man,” 2015 and Russell Tyler’s “TBP,” 2015. In this two-person show, on view at Retrospective Gallery in Hudson, NY through September 20, recent works by Trudy Benson and Russell Tyler engage the materiality and referentiality of painting. Both artists’ works take into account the ways the Internet has reshaped images…Read More
Read on Blouin Artinfo December 3, 2014 Afros, Abstraction, and Photographic Experimentation at Untitled By Scott Indrisek MIAMI BEACH — Untitled pitches its tent on the South Beach sand from December 3 through 7, bringing a roster of galleries that, while admittedly a bit heavy on New York representation, also includes venues from Helsinki, Mexico City, Bogota, and beyond. Despite lacking the flash and big-dollar bluster of Art Basel Miami Beach — one of Untitled’s advertising partners during Tuesday morning’s…Read More
Read on Blouin Artinfo “5 Must-See Gallery Shows: Lauren Seiden, Michael Berryhill, and More” By Scott Indrisek Lauren Seiden at Denny Gallery, through June 8 Crumpled, graphite-laden masses of paper assume the appearance of marble or stone in Seiden’s debut solo show in New York. They’re simultaneously delicate and imposing, practically begging the viewer to poke them, simply to see if they’ll yield or resist. (But yeah, don’t do that. Really.) As abstract objects — part drawing, part sculpture — they’re…Read More
Read on Blouin Artinfo “The Line Ventures into Art Wolrd with Artsy Collab” by Michelle Tay TheLine.com, an online fashion, home, and beauty retailer, is venturing into the art world. It has, via a partnership with Artsy.net, launched an exhibition and sale of art by contemporary artists such as Lauren Seiden, Sanda Iliescu, Jeffrey Hoone, Werner Bischof, Nicholas Alan Cope, Chip Hooper, Do Ho Suh and Tony Scherman. The works range from photography to mixed media collage pieces sourced from…Read More
