ARTICLES
The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th Venice Biennale
The Encyclopedic Palace 55th Venice Biennale Central Pavilion and Arsenale June 1 – November 24, 2013 Massimiliano Gioni, curator The encyclopedic impulse was a dream of knowledge and collection. An obsessive reverie of gathering and classifying that rejoiced on a sense of knowledge that, as Aristotle said, began with wonder. Side-stepping into the margins […]
Artist Interview: Judith Kruger
Judith Kruger is an American abstract painter whose work focuses on the Human-Environment connection. She manipulates globally sourced natural matter “as paint”. Her contemporary practice re-contextualizes the ancient processes of Nihonga, traditional Japanese mineral pigment painting (Nihon translates as Japan, and ga as painting, literally “Japanese-style paintings”). She received her BFA from Syracuse University and […]
Above + Below The Clouds: Chen Xiaowei
The work of Boston-based Chinese artist Chen Xiaowei 陳篠薇 (b. 1978) encompasses a wide range of media, including video, painting and drawings on paper. Through her work, she explores and expresses the intersections between the natural environment, natural disasters and human emotion. Above + Below The Clouds 雲上雲下, a solo exhibition of […]
Interview with Christopher D. M. Atkins, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Interview with Christopher D. M. Atkins, Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and author of The Signature Style of Frans Hals: Painting, Subjectivity, and the Market in Early Modernity (Amsterdam University Press, 2012). Javier Berzal: What attracted you to Frans Hals [1580-1666] in the first place? Christopher […]
EXCHANGE: Chicago and Detroit
Chicago Artists’ Coalition (CAC), in partnership with Power House Productions in Detroit, is pleased to present EXCHANGE, two group exhibitions that culminated from a Midwest Artist Exchange initiative in the two cities. In March 2012, artists from CAC’s BOLT Residency program traveled to Detroit to visit artist studios, artist-run spaces and galleries with a […]
Bernini’s Models: Displaying Process in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bernini: Sculpting in Clay Metropolitan Museum of Art: October 3 – January 6, 2013 Also: Kimbell Art Museum: February 3 – April 14, 2013 Curated by Ian Wardropper, Anthony Sigel, and C.D. Dickerson, with Paola D’Agostino There is a Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) that is pervasively known: the baroque artist that created dynamic […]
Profile of the Artist Rodney Carswell
hither and yon (little prisons) i meander; escape the straight and narrow…only to be so; drift in a random circuit; stray, losing the path. i make geometric repetition; mark a border to enforce a limit; my enclosures dictate direction; my outside determines interior; i move: up/down, left/right, back/forth, to/fro, along plumb & plane. i […]
Editorial: Reminiscences of Expo Chicago
It’s been a while since the inaugural edition of Expo Chicago (September 20-23, 2012 at Navy Pier) came and went. Here are some of my reminiscences from my day at the fair: I began the day at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago and attended a tour of the museum with the […]
Interview with Grant Hamilton, Director of TIME ZERO
In February 2008, when Polaroid announced that it would cease production on all instant film, director Grant Hamilton chose to tell the story of this beloved photographic medium which resulted in his first ever feature length film, TIME ZERO: The Last Year of Polaroid Film (2012). Click here to read the AF Project’s first article […]