by Will Brand on June 9, 2011
The cavernous feel of Casey Kaplan's space on 21st Street is a good setting for big, abstract painting. Put an interesting enough work up, and it can command fifty feet of wall, spreading out on either side like blinders on a racehorse. Garth Weiser's current show, though, takes that to an extreme, scattering eight big canvases and a handful of drawings around the space like rent is cheap.
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by Paddy Johnson and Karen Archey on May 1, 2009
Laura Parnes, Blood and Guts in High School, 2004-2006, video installation, 40:00 Observing a curatorial echo chamber privileging appropriation and conceptualism, art critic Jerry Saltz made his own list of artists engaging the plastic arts after 1999. The writer selected nineteen women and fourteen men — thirty-three in total in keeping with the Younger Than Jesus triennial […]
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