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Ryan McGinness - Aesthetic Comfort...
Ryan McGinness Aesthetic Comfort Curated by Randy Gladman September 27, 2008 – November 15, 2008 For Immediate Release Artcore / Fabrice Marcolini is pleased to announce Ryan McGinness’s first solo exhibition in Canada. Aesthetic Comfort presents a major painting and sculpture installation...
The Best Contemporary Art Galleries in T...
By Randy Gladman. Originally published on BlogTO.com, July 23, 2008 When it comes to the topic of Contemporary Art, it often seems there are only two kinds of Torontonians. There are the culture-junky downtowners who try to visit the galleries at least a couple times a year, in an effort to find unique...
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Text Art...
By Randy Gladman. Originally published in Contemporary, Text Art Special, vol.21, Issue 13, 2008 We interact with technology hundreds of times a day. We dial telephone numbers, scan our food through supermarket check-out lasers, change the television channel and move our mouse to surf to another web...
Kristine Moran: Dissolution Plan at Ange...
"Continual Drift by Kristine Moran" By Randy Gladman. Originally published in Canadian Art Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 3, Fall 2005 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...
Ryan McGinness; Art and Entertainment...
By Randy Gladman. Originally published in Strength: Skateboard Culture Magazine, January/February 2002 A small TV in a corner of the gallery projects a video of your worst nightmare. Office hell: A shallow space with white walls and whiter lighting, a nondescript table, and a generic clock, hung...
Nicholas di Genova at Le. Gallery...
By Randy Gladman. Originally published in Canadian Art Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 4, Winter 2004 ‘Street Art’ exists in heavily urbanized environments from Tokyo to Toronto. Much of it is ‘graffiti’, that pestilence of territorial pissing by visually impaired half-wits who have little creative...
Posted by Randy Gladman in All Articles+Projects, Interviews, Magazine Features on 07 26th, 2004 | 1 Comment
David Altmejd: 21st Century Werewolf Aes...
By Randy Gladman. Originally published in C International Contemporary Art, Issue 84, Summer 2004 21st Century Werewolf Aesthetics: An interview with David Altmejd Interview conducted in Istanbul, September 2003 Montreal born sculptor David Altmejd was the only Canadian artist at the 8th International...
Kristin Baker at Deitch Projects...
By Randy Gladman. Originally published in NY Arts Magazine, March/April 2004 The crowd at Deitch Projects, one of the few vital galleries in SoHo to have resisted the exodus to Chelsea, had already spilled out onto Grand Street by the time I arrived. This was the first Friday of the 2003 art...
Richard Stipl at Daniel Silverstein Gall...
By Randy Gladman. Originally published in Canadian Art Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 3, Fall 2003 A spontaneous chain of personalities and events lead to Czech-born sculptor Richard Stipl’s debut solo show in New York. It started in 2001, at Art Forum Berlin, where the artist’s Toronto dealer, Christopher...
Royal Art Lodge at The Drawing Center...
By Randy Gladman. Originally published in Canadian Art Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer 2003 “I would like some bad-acting and wrong-thinking. I would like to see some art that is courageously silly and frivolous, that cannot be construed as anything else.” So wrote the art and culture...
Tom Sachs; A Visit to Nutsy’s...
By Randy Gladman. Originally published in C International Contemporary Art Magazine, Issue 77, Spring 2003. It’s a Tuesday night in Lower Manhattan. Race night. I’m at Tom Sachs’ production facility on Hester Street, three blocks from his studio, two blocks from his home. Chinatown. This giant...
Posted by Randy Gladman in All Articles+Projects, Interviews, Magazine Features on 04 12th, 2002 | No Comments
Alexis Rockman: Fresh Kills...
By Randy Gladman. Originally published in ArText Magazine, Spring 2002 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...
Posted by Randy Gladman in All Articles+Projects, Interviews, Magazine Features on 02 26th, 2002 | 1 Comment
Rafael Lozanon-Hemmer at ARS Electronica...
By Randy Gladman. Originally published in Canadian Art Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 4, Winter 2002 Body Movies: A Linz Ars Electronica Festival award winner on the State of Interactive Art Interview with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Installing large scale interactive artworks in heavily trafficked and populated...
Ryan Humphrey’s Streets of Fire...
By Randy Gladman. Originally published in Smock Magazine, Winter, 2002 Space, Race, Time and Place Ryan Humphrey Streets of Fire at Caren Golden Fine Art 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...
Richard Kern at Feature, Inc....
By Randy Gladman. Originally published in NY Arts Magazine, July/August 2001 On a recent Saturday afternoon, I found myself standing in front of a series of framed photographs by Richard Kern, writing in my journal notes that seemed more like Penthouse letters than art criticism. “Staring wantonly...
Randy Gladman is a Toronto-based art critic, curator and consultant. After completing a Masters degree in Art History at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts in 2001, he worked as a registrar at Lehman Maupin Gallery and then as a curator at Mixed Greens Gallery, both in New York City, and as an independent art critic. His articles about art and culture have appeared in the pages of many magazines including Artforum, Contemporary, ArText, Canadian Art, C Magazine, Smock, NY Arts, Strength and others. He also contributed to Installationview, a monograph published by Rizzoli New York about the artist Ryan McGinness. His most recent curatorial project was “Aesthetic Comfort,” a solo exhibition by Ryan McGinness at Toronto’s Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini Gallery.
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