by Gabriela Vainsencher on September 16, 2013
Governor’s Island Art Fair (GIAF) isn’t your typical fair. At GIAF, there are no identical dry-walled booths or uniform foam core placards. There are no stranded-looking gallery girls and boys checking their phones, and no one is ignored for not looking collector-y enough. The rooms are manned by the artists themselves or feature some kind of note on the wall thanking visitors for coming by. On the whole, artwork is installed in a way that responds to the natural light coming through windows, the slanted walls of attics, and the curving banisters in the stairwells. It’s a nice place to go.
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by Gabriela Vainsencher on September 10, 2013
In Lucas Grogan’s embroidery The Bomb, the words “SHIT”, “FUCK”, and “SORRY” go straight to the heart. The emotional gaps left by the lack of punctuation get filled in by the surrounding cross-stitched kaboom, making clear the artist’s point about the human vanity that leads to war and the futile mea culpas that follow it.
The Bomb is one of Grogan’s pieces in a two-person show with New York-based Andrea Mary Marshall, opening September 11 at Garis & Hahn gallery.
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