Artist in Residence: Mindy Lu
In this installment of our artist-in-residence series, Adrian Marshall talks to Mindy Lu about her recent solo show To have is to own at the Jay Gallery in Seoul, South Korea. Lu studied art and history of art at Yale University, from where she graduated in 2010. She now lives and works in Seongnam-Si, South Korea. … Read more
Review: John Chamberlain at Pace and Gagosian
Pac Pobric The work of John Chamberlain recently enjoyed something of a moment in New York. With simultaneous exhibitions on view at Pace and Gagosian, not to mention a show at Paula Cooper in April, his art was for all intents and purposes on retrospective view, allowing for a clear entryway into his aesthetic development. … Read more
Blog Review: The Glaze
Bret Schneider The Glaze, like many art blogs that have gained rapid popularity in the past five years, features new art in an objective visual format, almost polemically unadorned by text, theory, criticism or any explicit accompanying ideas. It lacks a mission statement or “about” page, and its creator is seemingly non-existent, so the site … Read more
Review: Donald Judd at David Zwirner
Pac Pobric Donald Judd’s major ambition was to inherit the legacy of Jackson Pollock. The former’s recent show at David Zwirner certainly makes this apparent. The works in the exhibit are open box forms made of anodized aluminum that sit on the floor and are looked into from above. The pieces are accented variously with … Read more
Review: Sol LeWitt, ‘Arcs and Lines’ at Paula Cooper
Pac Pobric Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings have a tendency to be redundant. Once the perimeters of a particular work have been established as a plan for action, the execution of the piece is almost an afterthought, an exercise in scaled repetition. This separation of design and its realization explains why so many of these works … Read more
Femininity and Fetish in the Work of Marilyn Minter
Dana Kopel Marilyn Minter’s images—frozen moments of luxury and sensuality—fragment and abstract the female body, offering a critique of the objectifying (even commodifying) effects of the male gaze, which, with their lush, glittering surfaces, they simultaneously implicitly encourage. Three different, yet closely related, examples of her work—an advertisement for Tom Ford for Men (2007), an … Read more
Review: Kate Shepherd, ‘And Debris’ at Galerie LeLong
Pac Pobric For some curious reason, Kate Shepherd’s painting is often seen in “minimalist” terms. The press release for her most recent show at Galerie LeLong, for example, defines her latest pictures as “minimalist designs.” But setting aside the fact that minimalism by definition excludes painting – Donald Judd wrote in 1964 that “half or … Read more
An Interview with Harry Cooper
Earlier this year, Pac Pobric sat down with Harry Cooper, curator of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., to discuss painting, modernity, and theoretical methodology. Cooper earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University under Yve-Alain Bois with a dissertation on Piet Mondrian’s diamond pictures and has since curated exhibits … Read more
The Twin Sides of Antimodernism: A Response to Paul Chan’s Progress as Regression
Pac Pobric [1] It is a common and, at this point, hopelessly exhausted “postmodern” (read: antimodern) critique that the period of modernity, as the legacy of the Enlightenment, was a fundamentally conservative set of cultural and political moments; that its cultural tools (the historical avant-garde) and its political peaks (the French Revolution, for example) were … Read more
Objects of Devotion and Desire: Medieval Relic to Contemporary Art, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery
Adrian Marshall The latest exhibition at the Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College has great potential to open up medieval reliquaries to a larger contemporary audience, if they have the patience to read a little. Accompanying a loan of five medieval reliquaries from the Metropolitan Museum of Art are modern and contemporary works by Joseph Beuys, … Read more
Book Review: Sherry Turkle – Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Joel Kuennen In Sherry Turkle’s most recent book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, she relates a story of an artist with “cyborgs dreams.”[1] In 2005, artist Pia Lindman visited the MIT Media Lab to learn from the robots that could learn. The project resulted in an amazing series … Read more
Baldessari’s Ambivalence
Pac Pobric John Baldessari may have made a good painter. His earliest works evinced his aesthetic eye. In #2 (1963), a tension between representation and abstraction is realized through a scrutinizing approach to a bird (first a subject in 1962’s Bird #1), where a section of the animal is honed in on, closely examined, and … Read more
New Productive Systems
Brad Troemel “Technology will in the near and farther future increasingly turn from problems of intensity, substance, and energy, to problems of structure, organization, information, and control.” -Jon von Neumann, member of the Manhattan Project and inventor of the first useful computer, 1949 Introduction The ‘new’ in art is often said to be a … Read more
Featured Artist: Laura Brothers
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issue 3
“Art is modern when, by its mode of experience and as the expression of a crisis of experience, it absorbs what industrialization has developed under the given relations of production.” –Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory Anti-modernism, pre-modernism, and post-modernism each hold increasing power over the contemporary mind. The reason for this transfixion cannot be articulated until … Read more
