Merrily is a writer and critic living in New York. She writes regularly about contemporary art for Flash Art, Time Out New York, Art on Paper and other magazines.
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.
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.
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.
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