http://www.akrylic.com en-us http://www.akrylic.com N/A stuart@newbox.ca Tue, 13 May 2008 08:01:14 -0400 20 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/52/1/Force-Majeure/Time-Out-New-York-April-20---26-2006.html Kara Walker responds to Hurricane Katrina with a wake-up call of a show at the Met Kerr@akrylic.com (Merrily Kerr) Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/51/1/Supernova-Stars-Deaths-and-Disasters-1962-1964-Andy-Warhol-at-the-Art-Gallery-of-Ontario/Supernova-Stars-Deaths-and-Disasters-1962-1964-Andy-Warhol-at-the-AGO.html Memo to the Art Gallery of Ontario: fire your marketing staff. Initially, we welcomed the news that the AGO would be hosting an Andy Warhol show.  Until, that is, we saw the ads.  Far from being clever and savvy, these ads actually raise the not-entirely-unrealistic prospect that the AGO had never ever heard of Warhol, nor had they any clue what he had ever done. artfag@akrylic.com (The Art Fag) Sat, 12 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/38/1/Royal-Art-Lodge-at-The-Drawing-Center/Canadian-Art-Vol-20-No-2-Summer-2003.html The inventive and delightfully serendipitous drawings, sculptures and dolls in this show derive from a collaborative practice by the eight members of the group... these artists create post-surrealistic landscapes populated by simply and awkwardly rendered characters who question or fall victim to the lassitude of an imperfect, stupid and mean-spirited world. randy@akrylic.com (Randy Gladman) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/37/1/Richard-Stipl-at-Daniel-Silverstein-Gallery/Canadian-Art-Vol-20-No-3-Fall-2003.html The sublime torment of Richard Stipl’s demented figures resembles nothing so much as the stoic, hardened, drunken peasants trapped in Hieronymous Bosch’s purgatories. And like the prime-time reality-television programs we all deny watching, these grotesque miniatures at once repel and attract our gaze, making us at once slightly nauseous yet terribly compelled to keep looking. randy@akrylic.com (Randy Gladman) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/36/1/Richard-Kern-at-Feature-Inc/NY-Arts-JulyAugust-2001.html Richard Kern's models pose before his lens in manners most people only ever experience with their most intimate partners. Treading in the shallow underground waters that flow periodically between art and porn, Kern's images carry the feeling of privacy and intimacy you normally draw only from those home movies or Polaroid/digital pictures of your past sexual partners... randy@akrylic.com (Randy Gladman) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/33/1/Nicholas-di-Genova-at-Le-Gallery/Canadian-Art-Vol-21-No-4-Winter-2004.html In his debut solo exhibition, at Toronto’s tiny but edgy and inspiring Le Gallery, Nicholas di Genova offered ink and ‘cell animation’ paint on mylar drawings that displayed his attention to artists like Twist, Futura, and DALEK.  randy@akrylic.com (Randy Gladman) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/28/1/Kristine-Moran-Dissolution-Plan-at-Angell-Gallery/Canadian-Art-Vol-22-No-3-Fall-2005.html In her second solo exhibition, Kristine Moran sharpens the focus in her sci-fi paintings, zeroing in on the ideas of utopian theorists from the 20th century—Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses, Constant Nieuwenhuys and Buckminster Fuller—to present inner-city landscapes from an imagined alternative present.  randy@akrylic.com (Randy Gladman) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/27/1/Kristin-Baker-at-Deitch-Projects/NY-Arts-MarchApril-2004.html Never using brushes to create her works, Kristin Baker wields knives, normally a tool of deconstruction and violence, to construct worlds of speed and elegant tragedy.  The narratives depicted on these monumentally scaled PVC boards freeze crucial fragments of time, the exact nanosecond when wild destruction occurs and God decides if the racecar driver will live or die.   randy@akrylic.com (Randy Gladman) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/25/1/Joseph-Beuys-at-Artcore/Critics-Pick-Toronto-Artforumcom-May-August-2004.html Joseph Beuys's commitment to his final major project, Difesa della Natura (Defense of Nature), 1972–86, is captured faithfully in this museum-quality exhibition.  randy@akrylic.com (Randy Gladman) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/24/1/Jeremy-Blakes-Winchester-Trilogy/Tema-Celeste-January-February-2002.html Winchester (2002), Jeremy Blake's latest animated DVD, thankfully strikes a perfect balance between a crypto-mystic narrative percolating just beneath the surface and the fantasias of psychedelic color glowing like kryptonite that characterizes all of his opulent video work. david@akrylic.com (David Hunt) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/23/1/Jeff-Eldrod-at-Leo-Koenig-Inc/ArText-Issue-No-77-Summer-2002.html The real leap in computer/conceptual painting comes with Jeff Elrod’s first solo at Leo Koenig Inc. Since Elrod’s paintings begin with what he terms “frictionless drawings” made with a mouse in a simple software program, they reminded me of another early arcade game pioneer, Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High: “The thing with Pac-Man is you’ve got to decimate, before you’re decimated. It’s just like life.”  david@akrylic.com (David Hunt) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/19/1/Eldon-Garnet-at-Christopher-Cutts-Gallery/Critics-Pick-Toronto-Artforumcom-June-July-2004.html Framing abstract lyrical narratives through still-life photography, Eldon Garnet's current exhibition, "Imitative Harmony," presents a dark aesthetic sensibility and expressive handling of the grotesque. randy@akrylic.com (Randy Gladman) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/15/1/DALEK-at-Le-Gallery-and-Magic-Pony/Canadian-Art-Vol-22-No-4-Winter-2005.html Dalek’s first solo exhibition in Canada introduced Toronto audiences to a Brooklyn-based member of a large underground urban art movement that is attracting attention in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. randy@akrylic.com (Randy Gladman) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/16/1/Daniel-Heimbinder-at-Clementine-Gallery/NY-Arts-March-2002.html Rising unmolested from an overcharged and porous subconscious, Daniel Heimbinder’s drawings explore the insecurities faced by this young contemporary artist on the verge of entering the harsh light of critical awareness on the Manhattan art stage. randy@akrylic.com (Randy Gladman) Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/12/1/Christoph-Morlinghaus-at-Roebling-Hall/Canadian-Art-Vol-21-No-2-Summer-2004.html Christoph Morlinghaus's large scale C-prints derive from the work of Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, and Andreas Gursky. Though a generation younger, Morlinghaus follows their use of architecture—the building and the locale—as the point of departure. Exploiting the now-conventional methods and materials of ‘New German Photography’, he presents technically perfect images. randy@akrylic.com (Randy Gladman) Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/4/1/8th-International-Istanbul-Biennial-Istanbul-Turkey/Canadian-Art-Vol-21-No-1-Spring-2004.html The Venice Biennale reigns supreme as the most famous of the world's now numerous art fairs, but the most precious is arguably the Istanbul Biennial. Its eighth incarnation gathered 85 artists from 42 countries to present a multidisciplinary, multi-faceted and multimedia amalgamation. Istanbul, with her fantastically visual architecture, chaotic meandering streets, energetic populace and schizophrenically rich history, was itself a central participant. randy@akrylic.com (Randy Gladman) Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/11/1/Chris-Ofili-at-Victoria-Miro-Gallery/Art-Official-Premiere-Issue-2003.html Until I saw The Upper Room, part of his new exhibition at Victoria Miro gallery in London, I had never been a great fan of Chris Ofili’s work. It seemed to be all rock and no talk, or rather no new talk, just more appropriation and glamorization of black culture that artists such as Jean Michel Basquiat had already done in a seemingly much more honest way. andrea@akrylic.com (Andrea Carson) Thu, 13 Mar 2003 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/8/1/Barry-McGee-at-Fondazione-Prada/Contemporary-Magazine-September-2002.html Welcome to the world of Barry McGee. In the same way graffiti artists reclaim inner city neighborhoods, the San Francisco based artist has transformed the entire space at the Fondazione Prada in Milan, making it his own. andrea@akrylic.com (Andrea Carson) Fri, 13 Sep 2002 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/9/1/Bryan-Crockett-at-Lehmann-Maupin/ArText-Issue-No-77-Summer-2002.html In his recent exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York, Bryan Crockett offers seven sculptures of newborn mice to incarnate the deadly sins. Cast from ground marble, the material references the classical history of religious sculpture. randy@akrylic.com (Randy Gladman) Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/7/1/Anthony-Goicolea-at-Rare-Gallery/NY-Arts-June-2001.html Anthony Goicolea's new offering at Rare Gallery serves up this formula piping hot. Riffing on the theme of "self-love vs. self-hate", Goicolea's revamped definition of self-portraiture adopts Cindy Sherman's sense of staged reality and character assassination, but tweaks it with fizzy Photoshop fantasy.  randy@akrylic.com (Randy Gladman) Fri, 01 Jun 2001 00:00:00 -0400