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Randy Gladman
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| Randy is an art writer, independent curator and project manager. In 2004, he returned to Toronto after five years in New York City where he took a Masters degree in Art History at the Institute of Fine Art at New York University. He has since completed his MBA at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and is currently at work on numerous Contemporary Art, creative writing and entrepreneurial projects. He is the Director and Contributing Editor of http://Akrylic.com.
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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.
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Alexis Rockman: Fresh Kills
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Alexis Rockman sauntered up to our meeting spot on Canal Street, the sanguine spring in his step belying the bizarre state of Broadway, deserted except for about twenty police officers wearing flak jackets and carrying machine guns. The natural history painter’s studio is located in an area of Manhattan that was closed off to all nonresidents in the aftermath of the tragedy of September 11, Black Tuesday, and he arrived exactly on time to escort me into the war zone.
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Bryan Crockett at Lehmann Maupin
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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.
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8th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
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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.
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Christoph Morlinghaus at Roebling Hall
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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.
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Daniel Heimbinder at Clementine Gallery
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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.
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Ryan McGinness; Art and Entertainment
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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.
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DALEK at Le. Gallery and Magic Pony
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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.
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David Altmejd: 21st Century Werewolf Aesthetics
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I caught up with Altmejd for breakfast on the roof of the Armada Hotel in the old Sultanahmet sector of Istanbul the day after the opening of the Biennial. In the shadow of the Blue Mosque with a panorama view of the Bosphorus we spoke about energy generating werewolf heads, studio visits with Matthew Barney, the relationship between art and commerce, and what it means to be a French Canadian artist working in New York City.
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Dirk Westphal: Revelations of Undetected Beauty
Dirk Westphal uses subjects in his photographs as seemingly banal and commonplace as goldfish, lap dogs, snackcakes, mouthwashes and cold medicines to examine man-made beauty.
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