Lutz Bacher's 1993 aptly named Butt Photo--for that is what it is, an oversized black-and-white image of two clenched and dimpled cheeks--has pride of place in Kiki: The Proof is in the Pudding, on view at Ratio 3 through August 2nd. Placed well above eye level on the far wall of the gallery's main room, it sets the proper tone for the show: a sort of insouciant provocation. Catherine...
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with...
Posted by Lani Asher on August 18, 2008 (270 words)
Little Tree Gallery Social Club, a collaborative project by artist Andrew Tosiello and curator Clare Haggarty, is riddled with problems, poorly executed, and ultimately not very interesting. For those...
Posted by Dakota Phelps on August 11, 2008 (538 words)
"Things belong to those who need them", my grandmother used to say, meaning you would hardly ever find clothes or appliances lying around her house indolently collecting dust. Life had...
Posted by Jano Cortijo on July 15, 2008 (579 words)
David Stein's solo exhibition at Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Improbable/Unlikely, is made up of two independent projects, Semesterville and The Unlikely Library. Each is a conceptual take on education and its...
Posted by Anuradha Vikram on July 7, 2008 (403 words)
Traditionally the power of science fiction has been to offer a concrete view of what the world would look like if a technological breakthrough occurred that changed everything, or if...
Posted by Renny Pritikin on June 27, 2008 (325 words)
Curated by Lauren Davies for the Kala Art Institute's gallery Casual Labor brought together the work of Alex Clausen, Zachary Scholz, and Kirk Stoller, whose working methods, astutely described by Davies as "material collaboration,"...
Posted by Scott Oliver on June 1, 2008 (2039 words)