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...
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...
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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