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100 Walkers, West Hollywood
A large table sits in the middle of Richard Kraft’s Los Angeles based studio covered with a labyrinth of miniature pieces of paper, each perfectly cut and arranged in a systematic configuration that only the artist understands. The pieces are so fragile they seem to require surgical tools to manipulate. Kraft looks on to the […]
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Reflections on the Armory
The past few years have seen the influence and quality of The Armory Show experience a steady decline. Whether the fair suffers from a confusing layout, or constantly seeing the same artist with the same works presented by different galleries (what I like to call the “broken record syndrome”), or a mad rush for the […]
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A Declaration of Independent
Art fairs are very sad affairs, as a whole. The reduction of an entire artist’s practice to a few square feet of temporary drywall, the three-second interactions between gallery and client that render works of art little more than mathematical utterances, the absolute lack of critical (not just negative) observation that is delivered after the […]
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A. Moret Curates Visualpilots at SPRING/BREAK
Maybe it’s cold outside on the streets of Manhattan and the forecast calls for snow tomorrow, but nothing can stop us from celebrating SPRING/BREAK. A. Moret, Editor-in-Chief of Installation Magazine makes her curatorial debut for the fourth edition of NYC’s curator-driven art fair. This year the theme is TRANSACTION and to help realize our interpretation of our […]
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Nikki Rosato at VOLTA NY
In Nikki Rosato’s words, “our physical bodies are beautiful structures full of detail, and they hold the stories that shape our lives. The lines on a roadmap are fascinatingly similar to the lines that cover the surface of the human body.” The young Bostonian was awarded a 2014 Blanche E. Colman Award and participated in […]
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Kendal Hanna at VOLTA NY
A vanguard of Abstract Expressionism in the Bahamas with over five decades of evolving form in his retinue, Kendal Hanna’s recent career achievements include last year’s art documentary Brigidy Bram. In Hanna’s words, “real curiosity in ideas, material, form and the environment, be it through drawing, sculpture or painting, and channeling that effort into hard […]
