http://www.akrylic.com en-us http://www.akrylic.com N/A stuart@newbox.ca Sun, 18 May 2008 04:57:42 -0400 20 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/54/1/Ouverture--Huma-Bhabha/Flash-Art-JanFeb-2007.html I think Jesus would be horrified at whats going on, Huma Bhabha quipped in front of J.C., her rendition of a shell-shocked son of God fashioned from scavenged wood and Styrofoam with clay accents.  Kerr@akrylic.com (Merrily Kerr) Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/53/1/A-Flood-of-Details--Digging-Into-Yun-Fei-Jis-Source-Material/Art-on-Paper-JanFeb-07.html Yun-Fei Jis monumental new landscape paintings, depicting scenes along the winding banks of the Yangtze River just prior to the areas flooding by the Three Gorges Dam, are composed of imagery sampled from a vast archive of photographs, notes and sketches he has developed on several trips to China over the past five years.  Kerr@akrylic.com (Merrily Kerr) Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/44/1/Wangechi-Mutus-Extreme-Makeovers/Art-On-Paper-Vol8-No-6-JulyAugust-2004.html Artists from Cindy Sherman to Orlan have explored the chameleon-like nature of female bodies for decades. So what makes Mutu’s work unique? Apart from being skilled in montage she coherently refers to race, politics, fashion, and African identity in portraits that pack an aesthetic punch.  Kerr@akrylic.com (Merrily Kerr) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/42/1/Torben-Giehlers-ShockWave-Xanadu/artext-Issue-No-78-Fall-2002.html Over the past four years, Torben Giehler’s delirious reworkings of the modernist grid have followed the same trajectory as Mondrian, but their referents – flight simulators, PS2’s stately vector-netted pleasure domes, and the bunker architecture of color-coded Death Stars – is as far from Mondrian’s leaded glass windows, butterfly wings, and cathedral floor plans as a pixel is from a cross.  david@akrylic.com (David Hunt) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/41/1/Tom-Sachs-A-Visit-to-Nutsys/C-International-Contemporary-Art-No-77-Spring-2003-expanded-version.html It’s a Tuesday night in Lower Manhattan. Race night. I’m at Tom Sachs’s production facility on Hester Street, three blocks from his studio, two blocks from his home. Chinatown. This giant factory is on the third floor of an ancient building that once housed the New York City Police Department’s mounted division. randy@akrylic.com (Randy Gladman) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/40/1/The-Sanchez-Brothers-Young-Bloods/Maisonneuve-No-6-November-2003.html The Sanchez Brothers’ art inhabits that region of the mind visited just before sleep. Things seem quite real -- yet are somehow one step removed from reality.  adam@akrylic.com (Adam Gollner) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/39/1/Ryan-Humphreys-World/Smock-Magazine-Vol-2-No-1-Winter-2002.html Walking into Ryan Humphrey’s solo show at Caren Golden Fine Art was like walking into Valhalla; a place where the holy relics of my childhood heroes retired for eternity.  randy@akrylic.com (Randy Gladman) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/32/1/Matthew-McCaslin-Mining-The-Urban-Divide/Performing-Arts-Journal-Volume-XXVI-No-2-May-2004.html McCaslin’s work treads the ground equally held by installation and sculpture.  d@akrylic.com (David Gibson) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/31/1/Martin-Parr-Mobile-Phones/Artfoto-JuneJuly-2005.html The incisive vision of Martin Parr made him totally distinctive in the landscape of contemporary art, and many have been trying to paraphrase his vision. His work is a merciless documentary of everyday life.  dana@akrylic.com (Dana Altman) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/21/1/Gladstone-Hotel-Toronto-Grand-Opening/Artfag-Cahier-of-Criticism-and-Witticism-no-11.html We have never been terribly superstitious, but the Grand Unveiling of the newly renovated and open-for-business Gladstone Hotel was preceded by some fairly amusing, and somewhat portentous omens.  artfag@akrylic.com (The Art Fag) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.akrylic.com/articles/13/1/Ryan-McGinness-Art-and-Entertainment/Strength-Magazine-JanuaryFebruary-2002.html Relying heavily on a dose of influence from his Pop art predecessors but injecting it with sensibilities based in hip-hop hype, skater style and graffiti guerilla warfare, Ryan McGinness has pioneered a new territory in the realm of high art. randy@akrylic.com (Randy Gladman) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400