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134 – Kensinger / Burckhardt
I am not a real New Yorker. I admit it. I grew up in Connecticut and for the last ten years I have lived in Westchester. I have never, ever, lived in New York City. No rats or roaches, no water...
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135 – Collage Criticism 2
This week I am bringing back my link/ quote vehicle Collage Criticism. The first installment is here. The theme for this installment is disembodiment. But the very structure of the reporting process,...
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136 – Fandom and Rilke
Being a fan is a silly thing. We align ourselves with causes and nations and parties and these days, it matters little. I do not mean to sound defeatist, but I do feel that rooting for my Mets is the...
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137 – Dream House / Xerox Book
I was not in the art world in the 60’s, 70’s or 80’s. I am not 40 yet and the age in which I was born wouldn’t have allowed for me to know a more raw New York. I often hear this period lionized and...
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138 – Fair week/ Links and Upcoming Posts
With the IFPDA and E/AB Fairs happening, I can’t do all the writing I would like to this week. I have a preview of the weeks to come and links to some notable events and conversations. Links: Martha...
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139 – Eric Doeringer’s RP Flea Market, an Atlas Discussion
Eric Doeringer is most simply described as an appropriation artist. He has made works that sometimes vary in scale from the original, but are essentially miniature paintings in the tradition of...
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140 – Mary Temple, an Atlas Discussion
Uknowable, 2015, synthetic polymer and oil on canvas55” x 60” I have known Mary Temple for 7 years and during that time have watched as projects have begun, ended and overlapped. Though the conceptual...
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141 – December Links and Shows
I was planning a review and realized at 1,500 words in I was more lost than ever. I am reading How to Write about Contemporary Art by Gilda Williams and started to see pitfalls everywhere. The book...
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142 – Kandinsky, Then and Now
Wassily Kandinsky has been the reason for Atlas since the beginning. If not directly then historically. Kandinsky’s images first, and words later, became the reason I wrote and the reason I...
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143 – Nosebleed
When I think of a piece of art, I think of the place I saw it. My memory of a work or an exhibition unfold visually like a map. I see work in it’s place which is silly to say, but when you exhibit...
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Biography & History & Posterity
4 very brief things: 1) Anne Truitt’s Daybook is a great resource and a salve to my tired mind. Her words are inspiring and restorative. I am reading a new Kindle edition that has Turn and Prospect...
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145 – Atlas Exhibitions
Martha Lewis and Karen Dow in Flat/ Not Flat at Artspace New Haven Over the past 6 years I have been fortunate enough to curate or co-curate some shows outside of my day job and the thing I love best...
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146 – Link week
All thoughts are prey to some beast – Bill Callahan This week I am offering other people’s links and thoughts: Hito Steyerl – A Tank on a Pedestal: Museums in an Age of Planetary Civil War Tom Bissell...
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147 – Butt Johnson
The Change Blindness Effect, 2015 Ballpoint ink on 3 ply Bristol 13 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (34.3 x 31.8 x 3.8 cm) Butt Johnson’s show Quaint Abstraction (at CRG Gallery, ending this Sunday) is the...
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148 – Walid Raad
I learned many years ago to question the newspaper, the history books and any page with a critical mind. I read with caution and all facts are suspect as opinions. One of the people I learned this...
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149 – Structured and The Inherited Plane
With Atlas – 150 I am going to start sharing exhibition proposals and at that point Atlas will alternate between interviews, exhibition concepts and reviews. Before I get to the 150th Atlas, I wanted...
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150 – Curatorial Statement
The current trends in curating seem to swing somewhere between the mixed bag of the art fair and the draft day of a fantasy sports team. This is not to say that all curatorial efforts in this...
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151 – Carole Seborovski
Getting to know art is different than seeing a show. Seeing work in a studio, then encountering it in a gallery leads to a direct link or intimacy. Bias is born in these moments. I believe all...
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152 – Street Hassle Curatorial Statement
Originally created as a proposal for a not-for-profit gallery in New York, Street Hassle was my attempt to create a show using the framework of Lou Reed’s epic song of the same name. Though this...
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153 – John Houck, an Atlas Discussion
Petals and Interleaves, 2016, Edition of 2 + 1 AP, 32 x 27″ John Houck is an artist that I came to know through two different works, History of Graph Paper (shown at the Jewish Museum) and Portrait...
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