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...
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...
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...
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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