Can you make out Basquiat’s name in this abstract art show? —
Phaidon , 07.13.2017

Tate Modern’s hit new exhibition, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, charts both important social changes in American politics, and also presents a number of once-obscure artists to an international...

10 Must-See Works at Art Basel Unlimited — MOLLY GOTTSCHALK
Artsy, 06.12.2017

Mickalene Thomas, Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers), 2016 Walking into Thomas’s two-channel film installation is like being invited into a cozy living room to celebrate the diversity of womanhood, and in...

Grappling with Authorship and Acceptance in the Pop Art of Roger Brown — Sarah Rose Sharp
Hyperallergic , 06.06.2017

A pair of exhibitions at Kavi Gupta gallery places the artist’s paintings and sculptures in dialogue with arrangements of objects from his personal collections. CHICAGO — The tendency of Pop artists to collect objects makes...

Venice Biennale: Whose Reflection Do You See? — Holland Cotter
The New York Times , 05.22.2017

… “There are exceptions in the Giardini, the park that hosts some 30 national pavilions. One, a witty video by the young Russian artist Taus Makhacheva, shows an acrobat transferring a museum’s worth of Socialist...

McAurthur Binion – 57th Venice Biennale Short Guide —
57th Venice Biennale Short Guide , 05.17.2017

14 Artists You’ll Be Talking about Long after the Venice Biennale — Alexxa Gotthardt
Artsy , 05.12.2017

McArthur Binion Until he came to install for the Biennale, the 70-year-old Binion had never set foot in Venice. “I told friends that I wouldn’t go unless my work was in this show,” he said,...

First impressions of Christine Macel’s ‘Viva Arte Viva’ in the Central Pavilion — Evan Moffitt
Frieze , 05.11.2017

… “A beautiful suite of paintings by McArthur Binion, their surfaces pasted with shredded official documents – the artist’s birth certificate and car registration, for example – painted over with a crosshatch of black and...

McArthur Binion Addresses the Past in a Stunning Suite of Paintings — Sarah Douglas
Artnews, 05.09.2017

One of the first galleries in the Giardini section of Christine Macel’s curated exhibition at the Biennale, “Viva Arte Viva,” is a skylit display of paintings by the African-American artist McArthur Binion. Completed between 2014...

Roxy Paine Explores Nature, Folklore and Geometry in His Latest Exhibition — Olivia Martin
Wallpaper , 05.05.2017

Embers glow and flicker amid the hyperrealistic charred polyester resin and fibreglass trees, the light intentionally dim. It’s as if you have stumbled upon a suspended moment in time; a forest is hazy in the...

Angel Otero: The story behind an artwork, in the artist’s own words — Martin Parsekian
Modern Painters, 03.28.2017

This painting is based on Nicolas Poussin’s Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem. For the past few months, I’ve been taking Poussin as a straight reference and reproducing some of his paintings in the process...

An Interview with James Krone — Bonnie Begusch
Don't Panic Online, 03.14.2017

In James Krone’s “Waterhome”, on view at Kavi Gupta Gallery until April 14, oil paintings hang from a system of support structures that blur the distinctions between front and back, the exposed and the concealed....

Chicago Reviews: “Assisted” — Nicolas Linnert
ARTFORUM, 02.11.2017

“Assisted” KAVI GUPTA GALLERY | 835 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. “Assisted,” a vibrant group exhibition curated by Jessica Stockholder, was predominantly installed on the second floor of Kavi Gupta, above Stockholder’s concurrent solo show “Door Hinges.”...

Jessica Stockholder: Door Hinges — Stephanie Cristello
Art Review, 02.11.2017

There is no one word in the English language that rhymes with ‘orange’. Perhaps this is why we hear of ‘tangerine’ trees and ‘marmalade’ skies in song, while ‘orange’ is left out of popular melodies....

25 Amazing Exhibitors at Expo Chicago 2015 — Paul Laster
Whitehot Magazine, 02.11.2017

Expo Chicago returned to Navy Pier on September 17th for the fourth edition of “The Windy City’s” art fair with 140 exhibitors from 16 countries and 47 cities. Looking as strong as it has since...

57th Venice Biennale Reveals List of Participating Artists — Alyssa Buffenstein
Artnet, 02.07.2017

See whose work will be on display at “Viva Arte Viva” this summer. The 57th Venice Biennale released the list of participating artists for its main exhibition today, revealing the 120 artists—compared to last year’s...

November: José Lerma — Scott Indrisek
Modern Painters Magazine, 01.24.2017

A former law student who began pursuing art only at age 30, Lerma employs painting and sculpture in installations that refer to place and history in eccentric ways. (His show earlier this year at Andrea...

JOSH SMITH / JOSÉ LERMA — Ryder Richards
Ryder Richards DB14, 01.24.2017

Josh Smith’s works are quite awful objects. Overwhelmingly kitsch paintings on canvas and poorly crafted ceramics demand consideration as art world commentary if only because of Smith’s success carried by Luhring Augustine Gallery [link] and...

José Lerma: La Bella Crisis —
e-flux, 01.24.2017

In La Bella Crisis, Puerto Rican artist José Lerma revisits MOCAD’s history by transforming the museum’s main gallery, once an auto showroom, into a series of booths like those typically found at international art fairs,...

What a Mess!: José Lerma — Allison Gibson
Beautiful/Decay, 01.24.2017

THE PAINTINGS OF SPANISH-BORN, BROOKLYN-BASED JOSÉ LERMA SUGGEST THE TRADITION OF PORTRAITURE, THOUGH IT IS UNCERTAIN WHETHER THE SUBJECT OF THE PORTRAIT IS THE SITTER OR THE ARTIST’S CHOSEN MEDIUM ITSELF. DENSE LAYERS THAT SEEM...

José Lerma, “I am sorry I am Perry” — Joseph R. Wolin
Time Out New York, 01.24.2017

In José Lerma’s compact exhibition, squiggly blue lines that look like ballpoint-pen doodles form twin columns of piled spirals, rising up on either side of John Law, a large unprimed canvas on beveled stretchers. The...

José Lerma: Art About Other Things —
Tandem Press, 01.24.2017

José Lerma’s first visit to Tandem Press represented a form of homecoming. While attending the University of Wisconsin Madison at the turn of the century, he made a lifechanging decision to switch from the study...

José Lerma — Matthew Israel
Artforum, 01.24.2017

Relegated to this gallery’s smaller rear room, José Lerma’s latest exhibition, “I am sorry I am Perry,” would have benefited from the larger main space. His show is brimming with ideas, which deserve the additional...

Glenn Kaino: Leviathan — Christian Viveros-Fauné
ArtReview, 01.17.2017

Conceptual artist Glenn Kaino is a protean talent. A former chief creative officer of Napster and now senior VP at Oprah Winfrey’s media company, the LA-based artist is also very much a Johnny-on-the-spot in the...

CLARE ROJAS X VLADIMIR RESTOIN ROITFELD — Allyson Shiffman
Interview Magazine, 01.17.2017

It was a family affair at the opening for artist Clare Rojas’ solo exhibition at Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld’s uptown project space. Both Roitfeld’s mother, Carine, and his sister, Julia, were on hand to celebrate. The...

Prospect.3: Notes for Now in New Orleans — Paul Laster
Whitehot Magazine, 01.17.2017

Launched two years after Hurricane Katrina had devastated large areas of New Orleans and the Louisiana Gulf Region, Prospect New Orleans was conceived as an international biennial to exhibit current artistic practices while contributing to...

Glenn Kaino, On Concepts and Coral — Rachel Small
Interview Magazine, 01.17.2017

In a small space at the biennial exhibition Prospect.3 in New Orleans, seven aquariums in artist Glenn Kaino’s installation Tank give off a mechanical hum, generating a white noise that creates an oddly comforting background...

The Believer — Eric Bryant
Blouin ART+AUCTION, 01.17.2017

Early this fall, inside a vast, disused brick building in the gritty Southeast quadrant of Washington DC, a ribbon of gold about three feet wide and more than 100 feet long traced a path heavenward....

Roger Brown Goes Pop! at Kavi Gupta — Franck Mercurio
Chicago Gallery News, 12.14.2016

Earlier this year, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) announced that Kavi Gupta Gallery will represent the estate of artist Roger Brown (1941–1997) on behalf of the School. The announcement was received...

Artforum: Jessica Stockholder at Mitchell-Innes & Nash — David Frankel
Artforum, 12.01.2016

In a talk on the painter Elizabeth Murray in 2005, Jessica Stockholder remarked that Murray’s pictures, in doing away with flat rectangular canvases while retaining naturalistic representation and illusion, embody “a duality between aggressive challenge...

Face to Face, Warhol and Brown Reveal Deeper Meaning — Kerry Cardoza
Art Newcity , 10.18.2016

Roger Brown died on November 22, 1997, at the age of fifty-five, from AIDS-related complications. Thirty-four years earlier to the day, John F. Kennedy was assassinated. It was the type of news item Brown might...

McArthur Binion: A Must-See Art Guide: Chicago — Joshua Poveda
Artnet, 09.22.2016

A city that takes pride in its industrious past, Chicago is the birthplace of the zipper and the United States’ first skyscraper. Like many other East-Coast cities, it has a charming balance of past, present,...

Feeling Gravity’s Pull: Jessica Stockholder’s Stacked Works at Mitchell-Innes & Nash — Allison Young
Wallpaper, 08.31.2016

Creased, tied, folded, pierced, draped and bound: the repertoire of operations that Jessica Stockholder applies in her handling of found and manufactured materials is seemingly infinite. Blurring the boundaries between painting, sculpture and architecture, Stockholder’s...

Jamming in Traffic and Other Orchestrated Scenarios – Johanna Billing — Mark Sheerin
Hyperallergic, 08.25.2016

BRIGHTON, UK — Johanna Billing is an artist who orchestrates and films idealistic group activities which involve the viewer, but only up to a bittersweet point. She finds volunteers to make music, improvise dance, sail,...

Angel Otero on His New Painting Technique and First Hong Kong Exhibition — Samuel Spencer
Blouin Artinfo , 06.07.2016

ARTINFO spoke to the painter about this new series, which involves an innovative medium developed by the artist called “oil skins,” as well as his Hong Kong city highlights. Excerpts: What can visitors to your...

Tony Tasset’s monuments to everyone and everything — Lori Waxman
Chicago Tribune, 05.11.2016

The market is up. The market is down. Does it ever go sideways? I wondered this while standing amid the dizzying pointers of Tony Tasset’s “Me And My Arrow,” a solo show at Kavi Gupta’s...

Mickalene Thomas is Celebrating Our Skin | Studio Visit — Gabrielle Bruney
The Creators Project , 05.04.2016

Tackling pop-culture with high-art sensibilities, Mickalene Thomas’ work spans painting, photography, collage, and film. Her art is in MoMA’s permanent collection, and it lines the Lyons’ walls in Empire. Throughout the diversity of her practice, one theme is near-constant: black women.

A Life Ruled by Ups and Downs, Tony Tasset at Kavi Gupta Gallery — Vasia Rigou
Newcity Art, 03.30.2016

“Me And My Arrow” is the latest solo exhibition by Tony Tasset featuring sixty-six “Arrow Paintings” alongside two “Arrow Sculptures.” A floor-to-ceiling painting installation, the exhibition forms a fascinating 360-degree panorama of grid-like compositions—an overwhelming...

Pointlessness Is the Point: Tony Tasset and His Arrow at Kavi Gupta — Alison Reilly
Art Slant, 03.28.2016

I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to points. I thought, ‘Oh!...

Can’t-miss shows at galleries and museums this spring — Can’t-miss shows at galleries and museums this spring
Crain's Chicago Business, 03.10.2016

ALEX KATZ: “PRESENT TENSE” THROUGH APRIL 22 In Richard Gray Gallery’s stable of living artists, there are several with arguably larger international reputations than Alex Katz—Jaume Plensa, Jim Dine and Magdalena Abakanowicz—but none who embodies...

Tony Tasset’s Colorful Monument to 400,000 Artists Arrives in Grant Park — Jason Foumberg
Chicago Magazine, 02.19.2016

Find names of famous artists and maybe even your friends. Chicago sculptor Tony Tasset is known for his oversize artworks—like his 30-foot eyeball in Pritzker Park a few years ago. Now one of his largest...

Tony Tasset’s Artists Monument brightens up Grant Park — Ionit Behar
Chicago Reader, 02.17.2016

When people visit the Bean in Millennium Park, the first thing they see is themselves. The large, warped bodies and surroundings reflecting off the surface of the sculpture are a significant part of the artwork’s...

In Mickalene Thomas’s awe-inspiring portraits, a meaningful reflection of black women in art — Katie Booth
The New York Times , 01.29.2016

Over the course of her trailblazing artistic career, Mickalene Thomas has drawn inspiration from prolific artists and pop culture icons alike, from 1970s supermodel Beverly Johnson to Edouard Manet’s Odalisque figures of the 19th Century. From these influences, she’s created a vast body of portraits that critically deconstruct definitions of beauty, race, and gender — specifically for black women — and redefine them on her own terms.

Mickalene Thomas on Her Photographic Muses — Julia Felsenthal
Vogue , 01.28.2016

“Muse,” based on a book of the same name that came out this past fall, focuses on Thomas’s photographic practice. The show is arranged, she explained, like a set of concentric squares. The perimeter displays Thomas’s collages and photographs from the past 15 years, mostly images, like her paintings, of ultra-feminized black women lounging in sumptuous, textile-strewn interiors.

When the Weather Gives You Snowmageddon, Make Art Snowmen — Benjamin Sutton
Hyperallergic, 01.26.2016

Welcome to Snowmageddon 2015. (For readers outside the northeastern United States, this is all you need to know.) As we hunker down in anticipation of what will almost certainly be a less dramatic snowstorm than...

Sex Toy ‘Tree’ Heads to LA Fair, Museum puts ‘Races of Mankind’ Back on View–and More — Alanna Martinez
Observer, 01.21.2016

Paul McCarthy’s 79-foot-tall inflatable green sculpture, Tree, will be shown at the third edition of the Paramount Ranch art fair on January 30-31. The sculpture was first shown at Paris’ Place Vendome plaza in 2014,...

Colorful Art Installation Is Coming To Grant Park In The Dead Of Winter — Kate Shepherd
Chicagoist, 01.20.2016

Grant Park is getting a new art installation just south of 9th Street and Michigan Avenue by the end of January or early February. “The Artists Monument” by Chicago-based multimedia artist Tony Tasset is long...

Mother, Muse, Mirror — Jennifer Blessing
The New Yorker , 01.16.2016

Mickalene Thomas started out as an abstract painter, inspired by Australian Aboriginal art and late-nineteenth-century French Pointillism. She had always incorporated found materials into her work, but when she got to graduate school she began...

Angel Otero New Paintings — Jessica Holmes
The Brooklyn Rail , 12.09.2015

Puerto Rican-born, New York-based artist Angel Otero has refined a singular, labor-intensive process for making paintings. He applies thick oil paint to Plexiglas slabs and allows it to nearly dry before painstakingly peeling the oil skins away and reapplying them to canvas, to which he then adds and scrapes additional paint, resulting in an entirely new composition.

Mega Guide to Art Basel Miami Beach 2015: Part 4 — Gary Pini
Paper, 11.17.2015

One of our fave AB/MB sectors, PUBLIC, just announced this year’s list of 26 artists who’ll be doing site-specific installations and performances all week in Collins Park. Several caught our eye: a jemstone-encrusted “Healing Pavilion”...

Art Review: Sarah Sze, McArthur Binion and Dana Schutz — Peter Plagens
The Wall Street Journal , 10.09.2015

Whatever one perceives more strongly—Mr. Binion’s formalist gifts or his personal history—his paintings reward the viewer in different ways depending on whether one is up close or farther away. For their beauty and meaning to be fully appreciated, they must—repeat, must—be seen in the flesh.

Art Basel Miami’s Curated Kabinett Sector to Feature Chris Ofili, Glenn Kaino — Alanna Martinez
Observer Culture, 10.09.2015

This year 267 galleries will exhibit at Art Basel Miami Beach, the biggest art fair on the North American calendar and one of the most important annual events of the art world. The fair, which...

Recovering Abstraction: McArthur Binion’s Intimate Grids — John Yau
Hyperallergic , 10.04.2015

McArthur Binion’s exhibition, Re: Mine, currently at Galerie Lelong (September 10 – October 17, 2015) stirred up a swarm of associations while I was looking at it, and the buzz did not die down after...

Realismically Speaking, Irena Haiduk — Monika Szewczyk
Mousse #50, 10.01.2015

Art institutions in the western world are constantly on the lookout for artists capable of becoming agents of social change. Irena Haiduk, in her recent work Seductive Exacting Realism—presented in its two components at the...

Hitting Refresh: McArthur Binion at Galerie Lelong — Ryan Steadman
The Observer , 09.25.2015

Anyone that thinks artists are immune to either a gentle boost or a subtle snub from the art establishment is fooling themselves. Context and circumstance can be artists’ foes as easily as their friends, and...

10 art shows to see this fall — Lori Waxman
Chicago Tribune, 09.04.2015

This fall, feminist perspectives, generally, and women artists, particularly, take over the Chicago arts scene. It wasn’t planned by the city, a museum conglomerate or even one of the local academies; it just worked out...

25 Amazing Exhibitors at Expo Chicago 2015 — Paul Laster
Whitehot Magazine, 09.01.2015

Expo Chicago returned to Navy Pier on September 17th for the fourth edition of “The Windy City’s” art fair with 140 exhibitors from 16 countries and 47 cities. Looking as strong as it has since...

Introduction — Matthew Jesse Jackson
Published in Irena Haiduk's monograph Spells by Sternberg Press, 09.01.2015

YOU WILL NOT DIE IN BED HORSES WILL FUCK YOU IN THE EYES ALL CLASSIFICATIONS WILL LOSE THEIR GRIDS Polite art wants to live, multiply, and grow. There’s a basic assumption throughout Euro-America that the...

A Ghost in the Family — Dana Goodyear
The New Yorker, 08.10.2015

Early on the morning I went to see the San Francisco artists Barry McGee and Clare Rojas at their weekend place, in Marin County, a robin redbreast began hurling itself at a window in their...

‘Bonsai’ Show at Maccarone Honors Roger Brown — Roberta Smith
The New York Times , 07.23.2015

This exquisitely calibrated group show honors Roger Brown, the Chicago painter whose “Virtual Still Life” series is on view in the gallery’s larger space (at 630 Greenwich Street). Never seen in New York before, that...

Preparing to Live: Roger Brown in California — Jonathan Griffin
East of Borneo , 07.21.2015

The tiny settlement of La Conchita, California, is one of those places that are at once utterly rational and crazily perverse. A neat oblong of ten streets perpendicular to the Pacific Ocean, it is almost...

Goings On: ART: Roger Brown — Maccarone
The New Yorker, 06.26.2015

Late, great works by the still underappreciated Chicago painter, who died in 1997. Abstracted landscape paintings (rolling hills and mountains in the form of stripes and semicircles) have frames on their lower edges that extend...

Critics’ Picks: New York: Roger Brown — Alex Jovanovich
Artforum, 06.25.2015

Chicago Imagism: second-rate Pop from a Second City that had its moment—for about a second—too many years ago. This, of course, is all bullshit, but it is the narrative that’s been built around this Midwestern...

Art & Soul: Jepson exhibit showcases the 1990’s — Allison Hersh
Savannah Morning News, 06.21.2015

“Come as you are, as you were, as I want you to be.” – Nirvana, “Come As You Are” The Jepson Center turns back the clock with “Come As You Are,” a new exhibition focusing...

Angel Otero — Kyle MacMillan
Art in America , 06.18.2015

Since completing his graduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009, Angel Otero has devoted himself to revitalizing painting with a highly concept- and process-driven approach to the well-traveled medium. The Puerto Rican-born, Brooklyn-based artist’s recent exhibition at Kavi Gupta offered a tightly focused look at six red-and-white abstractions, the largest of which are 8 by 10 feet. They are all from a 2015 series titled “Lago,” a reference to the red-painted town in Clint Eastwood’s 1973 Western, High Plains Drifter.

Jepson Opens ‘Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s’ — Kristopher Monroe
Do Savannah, 06.08.2015

Flannel shirts, scrunchies and slap bracelets? Or do you remember it as the decade of the culture wars and the debate over political correctness? Even though the new exhibition opening at the Jepson this week...

Vibrant sea life comes to KC’s Grand Arts in Glenn Kaino’s ‘Tanks’ exhibit — David Cateforis
Kansas City Star, 05.09.2015

Art and science, philosophy and activism converge in Glenn Kaino’s “Tank,” the current exhibition at Grand Arts. The installation achieves seductive visual splendor within the darkened space of the gallery, which presents 10 sleek, square,...

Glenn Kaino parks his dazzling Tank at Grand Arts — Tracy Abeln
The Pitch, 05.05.2015

Billy Clubs. X-Lunar Destroyer. Time Machines and Poker Chips and Lava Rain. Reverse Gorilla Nipples. Ultimate Warrior and Tickle Me Pink. Albino Blizzard Zoa and Utter Chaos. Also: Space Monsters, Long Lash Angel, Taylor’s Holy...

Building Bridges: Glenn Kaino — Seth Hawkins
Artillery, 05.05.2015

After dodging the reporters and cameramen that were shooting footage of Leonard Nimoy’s star for memorial news coverage on Hollywood Boulevard, I was buzzed into Glenn Kaino’s studio and escorted up to the second floor...

“Come As You Are,” to Montclair Museum’s Exhibition of 90s Art — Brent Johnson
Jersey Arts, 02.20.2015

It was the decade when grunge swept over popular music, when Bill Clinton moved into the White House, when “Titanic” shattered box-office records, when personal computers and cell phones began to proliferate. And amid it...

Montclair Art Museum presents Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s — Gwen Orel
The Montclair Times, 02.12.2015

As you walk into the Marion Mann Roberts Gallery, there’s a sound of humming that makes a constant background. It’s not the heat. Nor is it feedback from someone’s headphones. It’s the spinning of a...

Glenn Kaino // Honor Fraser — Natalie Hegert
The Seen, 02.10.2015

A day of dense, low-lying fog finally succumbed to heavy rainfall over the city of Los Angeles. As we danced around the puddles, making our way up La Cienaga Boulevard to Honor Fraser, I paused...

Montclair Art Museum opens ambitious ’90s art exhibition, ‘Come As You Are’ — Jay Lustig
NJ Arts, 02.09.2015

Artistically, decades don’t often fall into tidy 10-year intervals. When we talk about ’60s culture, for instance, we’re really talking about the time period from the assassination of Kennedy (1963) to the resignation of Nixon...

Miley, a Must-Have Sweatshirt, and More: Lauren Goodman’s Best of 2014 — Laura Goodman
Style.com, 01.05.2015

Thinking over 2014, there are so many bright spots. Here are a few I wanted to celebrate just a little bit more. Like the Oscars, many of my favorites reflect a recency effect…there were so...

The 50 Most Exciting Artists of 2014 — Christian Viveros-Fauné
Artnet, 12.29.2014

Life can’t be boiled down to a listicle. Neither can art or money. Yet all three have become so intimately intertwined that they could seriously stand the kind of rearranging that only an alternative inventory...

Bass Museum’s 50th anniversary exhibit is all about history’s favorite precious metal — Anne Tschida
The Miami Herald, 11.15.2014

The GOLD exhibit at the Bass Museum of Art is layered with meaning, some obvious, some subtle. To begin with, the title acknowledges the 50th birthday of the museum — its Golden Anniversary. Starting from...

The Highlights of Prospect.3: New Orleans Hosts A Global Art Exhibition — Ann Binlot
Forbes, 11.14.2014

How can art and artists contribute to the rebuilding of post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans? That was the question that started Prospect New Orleans, a biannual international exhibition held in the Big Easy. What began as...

Prospect.3 // Interview with Franklin Sirmans — Maria Avila Risolute
The Seen, 11.13.2014

Prospect, the New Orleans biennial, is now in its third chapter–reflecting the city’s rich cultural breadth with a wide array of exhibitions and performances. Like so many metropolitan areas, there are many different neighborhoods, and...

Lesley Dill installation and ‘Art on Paper’ worth the trip — Tom Patterson
Winston-Salem Journal, 11.09.2014

Two of the most stimulating exhibitions the Triad has seen this year are currently at Greensboro’s Weatherspoon Art Museum. One is a solo exhibition by Lesley Dill, a New York artist, and the other is...

Glenn Kaino on Art’s “Infinite Possibility” to Incite Social Change — Noelle Bodick
ArtSpace, 10.31.2014

The Los Angeles-based conceptual artist Glenn Kaino is compelled by the provisional ecosystems that pop up in the midst of political activity, for instance in Tahrir Square, which he visited before the Egyptian revolution, and,...

Bright Prospects — Linda Yablonsky
Artforum International, 10.31.2014

THERE’S ALWAYS A GOOD REASON to be in New Orleans. Last weekend, the draw was “Prospect 3: Notes for Now,” or P.3, the resonant third edition of the international biennial that Dan Cameron created in...

Prospect.3 Trains Its Eye Provocatively On the Art World’s Social Failings — Christian Viveros-Fauné
Artnet, 10.29.2014

“Somewhere and not Anywhere.” That’s the way Binx Bolling, the protagonist of Walker Percy’s 1961 novel The Moviegoer, describes his ideal digs in New Orleans. Describing a place that is familiar yet in no way...

Military Machines Become Coral Reefs In Glenn Kaino’s ‘Tank’ — Hannah Stamler
Vice Magazine - The Creators Project, 10.28.2014

Art exhibitions are sometimes described as incubators for new ideas, but rarely do they also serve as incubators in the literal sense of the word, helping to sustain or breed life. New Orleans’s recently opened...

The Man Behind Prospect 3 — Lindsay Koerner
NolaVie, 10.27.2014

As a Los Angeles transplant to New Orleans, it is always a bit of a jolt when the chasm between L.A. and LA is bridged. That is happening to me with Prospect 3: Notes for...

Must-See Projects at Prospect New Orleans, a Citywide Art Biennial — Julie Baumgardner
New York Times Style Magazine, 10.24.2014

Though it only launched in 2008, Prospect New Orleans — the city’s ambitious attempt at an internationally competitive art biennial — has seen more than its share of trials and tribulations. Board blunders and cash-flow...

New Orleans Biennial ‘Prospect 3’ Leads The Way In Art World Diversity — Priscilla Frank
The Huffington Post, 10.24.2014

Whitney Biennial, take note. Contemporary art is taking over the city of New Orleans for “Prospect 3,” a city-wide festival comprised of 58 artists and 18 locations. And, as reported by Julia Halperin for The...

Glenn Kaino Is Inspired As Much by Ferguson As A Bottle of Opus One — Eileen Kinsella
Artnet, 10.24.2014

One of the most buzzed about art projects in the months leading up to the third edition of the New Orleans biennial, “Prospect.3” has been Glenn Kaino’s Tank (2014) for which the artist has built...

Glenn Kaino — Glenn Kaino, with Paige K. Bradley
Artforum, 10.24.2014

Glenn Kaino is a Los Angeles–based artist whose work addresses social and political histories while prioritizing individual subjectivity. His latest installation Tank, comprises seven saltwater-filled vitrines in which clear resin sculptures cast from a disused...

L.A. artist reimagines U.S. Army tanks as living coral paintings: A best bet at Prospect.3 in New Orleans — Doug MacCash
The Times-Picayune, 10.23.2014

Los Angeles artist Glenn Kaino’s collection of living coral displayed in murmuring high-tech aquariums on the second fl oor of the Contemporary Arts Center is my personal favorite of the Prospect.3 international art festival exhibits...

In New Orleans, a Biennial on the 3-Year Plan — Ted Loos
The New York Times, 10.23.2014

After a very bumpy sophomore effort that was delayed by a year and plagued by cost overruns, the organizers of Prospect New Orleans, which was started as a biennial in 2008, are officially calling this...

ALTER/ABOLISH/ADDRESS TURNS THE CITY INTO A GALLERY IN WASHINGTON, D.C. — Justin Quirk
Artphaire, 10.21.2014

Throughout the fall, the Los Angeles Nomadic Division presents a series of five site-specific commissions which will sprawl out across Washington D.C. taking over public spaces. “Alter/Abolish/ Address” will take place as part of 5×5:2014....

Bridges, ‘junk’ and photos: A different kind of street art — Alicia Lozano
WTOP, 10.20.2014

Perhaps you’ve seen an image on the corner of 14th and U streets in Northwest D.C. of a black man wearing a cap and gown. He is looking out from the photo, daring his peers...

Tony Tasset — Kyle Macmillan
Art in America, 09.24.2014

A mound of bean dip. A puddle of multipurpose cleaner. A glob of blackberry yogurt. Three-dimensional re-creations in colored resin and other mediums of a few dozen food and consumer products, along with the actual...

From Tahrir Square to Ferguson, artist Glenn Kaino’s rocks of protest — Carolina A. Miranda
Los Angeles Times, 09.22.2014

Artist Glenn Kaino picked up his first rock in Cairo a couple of years back. He was in Egypt doing some research for the 13th annual Cairo Biennale, where he had been selected to represent...

Glenn Kaino’s Social Experiment — Fan Zhong
Wmagazine, 09.18.2014

There are two ways to draw a crowd to a difficult subject: you can make a loud noise, or you can wrap it in an attractive package. “Aesthetics matter to me a lot,” says the...

A piece of Ferguson protests come to Chicago — Pac Pobric
The Art Newspaper, 09.18.2014

The American artist Glenn Kaino recently visited Ferguson, Missouri—the town torn by protests after a white police officer killed Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager, on 9 August—for a work he is due to unveil...

Artist Glenn Kaino On Ferguson, Equality and Tommie Smith’s Iconic Salute — Ann Binlot
Forbes, 09.16.2014

Glenn Kaino’s Bridge is one of the most powerful pieces of art in recent history. Comprised of a series of fiberglass casts painted of gold from the raised fisted arm of Tommie Smith, the 1968...

5 x 5: A Powerful Commentary on Gentrification in Washington, D.C. — Jared Green
The Dirt, 09.09.2014

The Washington, D.C. Commission on Arts and Humanities just seriously upped their game with their latest city-wide temporary public art project called 5 x 5. Five curators brought 25 artists’ site-specific installations to all 8...

Map: Where To See 5×5’s Public Art This Weekend — Sarah Anne Hughes
DCist, 09.05.2014

D.C.’s citywide public art event, 5×5, begins this weekend. That’s the good news. The bad news is that free tickets for two guided bus tours this Saturday, and a fancy reception tonight at the Capitol...

5×5 Brings a Burst of Public Art to DC — Anneliese Cooper
Blouin ArtInfo, 09.04.2014

With the opening words “By art is created that great Leviathan,” Thomas Hobbes launches readers into his seminal work of political philosophy, Leviathan, in which he imagines the State as a great aggregation of the...

DC’s 5×5 public art festival: What to see and where to see it (MAP) — Caroline Dobuzinskis
Elevation DC, 08.19.2014

5×5, a project of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH), will bring public art to all eight wards of the city – transforming, at least temporarily, neighborhoods and parks, street corners, and...

Art Alliance: The Provocateurs, Chicago —
Known Gallery, 08.05.2014

The exhibition featured over 40 trailblazers of the art world including Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey, Swoon, Space Invader, Ryan McGinness, Camille Rose Garcia, Clare Rojas, Cleon Peterson, CYRCLE, D*FACE, Dana Louise Kirkpatrick, Deedee Cheriel, Dzine,...

Art Alliance: The Provocateurs Opens Today at Block 37 in Chicago —
Obey Giant, 07.31.2014

Art Alliance: The Provocateurs at Block 37 opens today. Feel free to walk in any time during daytime hours 10am-6pm. Here are some shots of the murals being completed by Cleon Peterson, RETNA, and POSE....

Columbia College Teams Up with Shepard Fairey and “The Provocateurs” Exhibition — Bethany Hexom
Columbia College Chicago Blog, 07.29.2014

Columbia College Chicago has teamed up with Shepard Fairey (OBEY series, Obama HOPE) and three other Art Alliance: The Provocateurs artists to showcase their work in the Wabash Arts Corridor as part of the exhibition...

Introducing Art Provocateurs Week on Complex, With Artists Curated by Shepard Fairey — Cedar Passori
Complex, 07.28.2014

Welcome to Art Provocateurs Week, in collaboration with Art Alliance, where we interview artists who are a part of the Shepard Fairey-curated “The Provocateurs” exhibition during Lollapalooza. Enter our contest for a chance to win...

Art Alliance: The Provocateurs, July 31 – August 4, 2014 —
Juxtapoz Magazine, 07.18.2014

For the last 20 years, Juxtapoz Art and Culture Magazine has worked to create a place and dialogue for artists who stood outside of the museum programming of the time but were creating substantial and...

Learn from how Chicago does culture — Greg Cook
The Boston Globe, 06.27.2014

When Chicago’s Millennium Park turned 10 this month, the Chicago Tribune hailed it as “the best thing former Mayor Richard M. Daley ever did” and “the latest demonstration of Chicago’s audacious ability to invent the...

CAC Exhibit Pushes Back Against Museum’s Architecture — Mara Seda-Reeder
City Beat Cincinnati, 06.25.2014

“When people ask me what are my influences, they’re ghosts and magic,” artist and curator Michael Stillion said during a recent visit to his studio in Evanston. So you can be sure that Stillion, a...

SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE: Tony Tasset —
Oak Park Art League, 06.23.2014

In conjunction with our exhibition OFF THE GRID, the Oak Park Art League presents a special guest lecture by Chicago artist, Tony Tasset, who will be discussing his work Artists Monument, recently featured at the...

Artist’s Multiple: Tony Tasset on Vagueness, Pants and Having A Good Cry —
Paddle 8, 06.10.2014

While Tony Tasset may modestly credit a large portion of his creative inspiration to “more successful artists,” the art world has long been eyeing his large-scale multimedia works with enthusiastic appreciation, fittingly so as his...

Whitney Biennial 2014 — Jason Fargo
Frieze, 06.06.2014

Reviews of the Whitney Biennial usually start by invoking the impossibility of the exhibition form and all the failed editions that came before, but here’s the tricky thing: three of the last four were good....

Phantom Sense: Tony Tasset’s Spill Paintings — Stephanie Cristello
ArtSlant, 05.30.2014

What Tony Tasset’s Spill Paintings lack in their pictorial realization they make up for in engaging other senses. It is impossible to talk about these paintings solely through optics, since they depend so much on...

Maychack’s objects on the verge, and a vanishing modernism — Kenneth Baker
San Francisco Chronicle, 05.24.2014

Clare Rojas at Anglim: The passages of abstraction in Clare Rojas’ narrative paintings always seemed to me the most appealing bits. She could have gone straight to “pure” abstraction years ago. But her new work...

Warfield Building Gets Schooled — Andrea Valencia
MissionLocal, 05.21.2014

One wall of the Warfield building on 982 Market Street, is undergoing a mural by Clare Rojas. According to the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Facebook page, the mural was funded by the National Endowment for...

The Arts Calendar – May 19-24, 2014 (Excerpt) — Kyle MacMillan
Chicago Sun-Times, 05.18.2014

Chicago artist Tony Tasset, who is featured in this year’s Whitney Biennial, has gained national recognition for his varied multimedia works, which are usually playful, often pop-influenced and sometimes downright weird. Tasset returns to the...

GSU sculpture park picked among best in the world — Donna Vickroy
Southtown Star, 05.16.2014

“Great art picks up where nature ends.” – Marc Chagall Among the tall grasses, windswept prairies and lines of spindly Osage orange trees on the campus of Governors State University rise giant works of steel,...

A Trifurcated 2014 WHITNEY BIENNIAL Bids Farewell to its Madison Avenue Home (Excerpt) — Kitty Garner
Peachy, 05.15.2014

“Its architecture is like a horror movie” wrote one particularly caustic critic, referring to the Marcel Breuer building which has housed the Whitney Museum of American Art for nearly half a century. “Stygian”, “menacing”, “bellicose”,...

Clare Rojas @ Paule Anglim — David Roth
Square Cylinder, 05.06.2014

Clare Rojas has moved a long way from her Mission School roots. Where several years ago she was painting psychosexual dramas in a folk-art manner, she’s since reinvented herself as a geometric abstractionist, making works...

The Eyes Have It — Allese Thomson
Artforum, 04.23.2014

THE JOULE HOTEL was the nexus of activity during the sixth edition of the Dallas Art Fair. Everyone from Heidi Klum to artists like Richard Phillips and Will Boone and dealers including James Fuentes and...

Monumental Moments: Tony Tasset — Daniel G. Baird
Bad at Sports, 04.22.2014

Tony Tasset’s artworks consistently aim to destabilize and question our understanding of value.  Often perceived as humorous, whimsical or playful, the works poetically allude toward confrontations with mortality, timelessness and cultural awareness through slick pop-art...

Dallas Rising — Allyson Shiffman
Wmagazine, 04.15.2014

If there’s one word to describe the Dallas Art Fair, which ran from April 11 through 13, it might be “approachable.” The relatively modest size makes it digestible in a few hours and the staffers...

Art scenesters make Eye contact at Joule hotel Dallas Art Fair throwdown — Diana Oates
Culturemap Dallas, 04.14.2014

The Joule Dallas unveiled the most distinctive rental space in town on April 12 at the Eye Ball, a party hosted in conjunction with Dallas Art Fair that introduced the Eye as a venue available...

Dallas Fêtes Sixth Art Fair with “Eye Ball” — Kristen Boatright
Blouin ArtInfo, 04.14.2014

Artists, gallerists, collectors and other industry insiders descended on Dallas for the sixth Dallas Art Fair, which wrapped at the Fashion Industry Gallery Sunday. On Saturday night, revelers gathered in front of Tony Tasset’s 30-foot...

The Joule Dallas Hosts THE EYE BALL At Dallas Art Fair —
alwaysFashionWeek, 04.14.2014

This weekend, The Joule Hotel hosted a cocktail party in celebration of the sixth annual Dallas Art Fair at the Eye sculpture by Tony Tasset. Guests enjoyed a live graffiti painting by the Sour Grapes...

Dallas Art Fair Offers an Eyeful at The Joule —
Eat | Style | Dallas, 04.13.2014

Last night a list of lucky guests and Dallas friends of the arts were treated to windy weather fun in Downtown Dallas. The Joule Hotel hosted a cocktail party in celebration of the sixth annual...

Monument/Anti-Monument Conference Puts Public Sculpture In The Spotlight — Stephanie Zimmerman
St. Louis Public Radio, 04.08.2014

As home to works such as Eero Saarinen’s “Gateway Arch” and Richard Serra’s “Twain” and to places such as Laumeier Sculpture Park and CityGarden, St. Louis has established itself as a formidable player in the...

The Approval Matrix: Week of April 7, 2014 —
New York Magazine, 04.06.2014

Lancaster City Morning Buzz: Thursday, 27 March — Jeanne Eckmann
The Examiner, 03.27.2014

“Folklore” will be the featured exhibit at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design (PCA&D) through 18 April. The contemporary works of art by Amy Cutler, Clare Grill, Clare Rojas and others will be featured...

To Do: March 26–April 9, 2014 —
New York Magazine, 03.23.2014

Art 6. See Tony Tasset’s Artists Monument An outpost of the Biennial, near its next home. Tasset’s massive multicolored work is a big rectangular prism etched with the names of 392,486 artists. They range from...

Why This Year’s Whitney Biennial Should Be Seen Through a (Slightly) Rose-Colored Lens — Christian Vivernos-Faune
The Village Voice, 03.19.2014

There’s an anecdote I try to remember every time I get too down on New York and its coddled, flighty art world. One afternoon over lunch, I unburdened myself of months’ worth of negativity to...

On The Horizon: Dallas —
The New York Times, 03.09.2014

While most of the year Dallas is associated with football, in early April it distinguishes itself as a city of the arts. Beginning April 4, the second annual Dallas Arts Week festival will showcase an...

‘The Way of the Shovel’ at the MCA Chicago — Derek Fincham
Illicit, 03.03.2014

Museums and the field of archaeology often have an uneasy relationship. Archaeologists deal in context, unearthing the history with careful study. Museums have varied missions. Some display fine art, some focus on amassing as many...

Artist Clare Rojas Talks Abstraction, Art Market Gossip and Louie C.K. — Priscilla Frank
The Huffington Post, 12.15.2013

In her paintings, Clare Rojas lets geometric narratives unfold between colors and shapes. Drifting, colliding, coexisting and communicating, Rojas’ sharp-edged forms build tension and character with their paths, while remaining fully alien and abstract. Rojas’...

New Work by Clare Rojas — Deeksha Mehta
Trendland, 11.12.2013

Contemporary artist Clare Rojas recently began painting again after a personal hiatus, and her current artwork displays a completely new point of view and style. Whereas her works in the past were much more subject-based...

Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld Hosts The Clare Rojas Opening Exhibition —
Fashion Week Daily, 11.11.2013

The art and fashion world married on Saturday night when Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld lured his pals uptown for the opening reception of artist Clare Rojas’ solo exhibition. The exhibition, hosted by Restoin Roitfeld, includes over...

Clare Rojas Folk Art Inspired Tableaus Shift Into Abstract — Ilya Fyars
Artlyst, 11.09.2013

After a years long hiatus artist Clare Rojas, known for her folk art inspired tableaus, is debuting a series of 33 never-before-seen works at Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld’s project space on November 11th. Rojas has taken...

Previews: Clare Rojas @ Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld — Sleepboy
Arrested Motion, 11.09.2013

With the private opening set tonight and the public unveiling on November 11th, Clare Rojas’ new exhibition is set to give her fans in New York a look at her recent abstract work. Hosted by...

WEEKEND INSPIRATION: Clare Rojas Takes On Geometric Abstraction —
Surf Collective NYC, 11.08.2013

Rojas’s new paintings, drawings, poems and installations, which will be appearing tomorrow in an exhibition at Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld in New York, marks a shift from the former work she is known for, and toward...

On View | Clare Rojas Gets in Touch With Her Abstract Side — Erica Bellman
New York Times Style Magazine, 11.07.2013

Clare Rojas, the Bay Area-based multidisciplinary artist, refuses to confine her expansive practice to a single medium. Instead, she glides from paintbrush to pen, from camera to guitar (or banjo — she produces bluegrass-infused music...

McArthur Binion Kavi Gupta — Faye Gleisser
Artforum , 11.03.2013

To see “Ghost: Rhythms,” Chicago-based artist McArthur Binion’s first solo exhibition at Kavi Gupta, was to be let in on a secret. From a distance, the rarely seen abstractions on unstretched canvas and aluminum from the artist’s early career in New York during the 1970s recall aerial maps or stratified rock formations. Upon closer inspection, the seemingly monochromatic beige oil-stick skeins give way to teeming beds or imperfect grids of barely perceptible crisscrossing blue, green, and red lines. By insisting that viewers look not only at but through his subtle, multilayered works, Binion invites an excavational mode of seeing attuned to the ghosting of mark-making itself- a major theme of the artist’s oeuvre as a whole.

Angel Otero’s Digs On Frayed Canvases and Crumbled Sculptures — Christian Viveros-Faune
The Village Voice , 09.18.2013

What Otero managed to do in Chicago was remarkable for an artist at any age. He reinvented the practice of painting for himself by learning to excavate volatile new meanings from the medium’s most essential materials: paint and cloth. Using a now-signature method in which he lays oil paint onto glass panes in order to subsequently peel off their “skins,” the artist then devised a way to reattach his flayed sheets onto waiting canvases—thereby crafting finished works that look partly like spontaneous 1950s abstractions (of the Art Informel variety), but also like torn, graffitied posters found in outer borough subway tunnels.

Review: McArthur Binion/Kavi Gupta Gallery — Alan Pocaro
NewCity Art, 04.16.2013

Shortly before creating the paintings in “Ghost: Rhythms,” in the early 1970s, McArthur Binion became the first African American to receive an MFA from Cranbrook Art Academy. The eleventh child of Mississippi tenant farmers, the...

On View: Clare Rojas at Galleri Nicolai Wallner — Nastia Voynovskaya
Hi-Fructose, 04.08.2013

Known for her character-driven paintings — with their autumn hues and patterns inspired by folk art forms — Clare Rojas has taken a radically new direction in her past few exhibitions. The artist opened a...

Gerald Williams Interview — Rebecca Zorach
Never the Same , 11.01.2011

Interview with Gerald Williams at his home in Sumter, South Carolina, in November 2011, by Rebecca Zorach for Never The Same. Gerald Williams is a painter and a founding member of AfriCOBRA. Born in Chicago,...

Roger Brown, 55, Leading Chicago Imagist Painter, Dies — Roberta Smith
The New York Times , 11.01.1997

Roger Brown, a leading painter of the Chicago Imagist style, whose radiant, panoramic images were as passionately political as they were rigorously visual, died on Saturday at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta. He was 55 and...

Interview with Roger Brown — Mark Price
Sculpture Magazine , 09.01.1997

Born in Alabama, Roger Brown first came to prominence as an artist when his work was included in the 1969 exhibition, “Don Baum Says: Chicago Needs Famous Artists,” at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Subsequently...