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Spring in dystopia: lean on visual pleasure but limned with thoughtful commentary on the state of the world, the current Whitney Biennial gives a quieter than usual voice to a general malaise
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This latest Whitney Biennial almost perfectly fits with our prevailing national mood, which is...
Art in America, 05/01/08 by Gregory Volk · More from publication -
Walkabout: Francis Alys's peripatetic actions have won him acclaim on the global scene. A traveling exhibition surveys the career of this multifaceted artist, while a New York installation makes an artwork of his own unusual collection
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a current arts situation marked by proliferation, with more and more galleries, exhibitions,...
Art in America, 02/01/08 by Gregory Volk · More from publication -
The expanded field: Munster's latest decade: the fourth installment of sculpture Projects Munster, a series of exhibitions held every 10 years, was a freewheeling affair in which finding the works was as diverting as looking at them
It was a fascinating, and for me entirely refreshing, experience to move from Documenta 12 in Kassel to the Sculpture Projects Munster exhibition...
Art in America, 10/01/07 by Gregory Volk · More from publication -
Joan Jonas at Dia: Beacon
Those who missed the acclaimed 2005 presentation of Joan Jonas's The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things in the cavernous basement at Dia:Beacon...
Art in America, 03/01/07 by Gregory Volk · More from publication -
Tavares Strachan at Pierogi and Ronald Feldman
It's one thing for a talented young artist fresh out of graduate school to have a debut solo exhibition in New York. Tavares Strachan, who is from...
Art in America, 02/01/07 by Gregory Volk · More from publication -
Rivane Neuenschwander at Tanya Bonakdar
This was the first solo gallery exhibition in New York for Brazilian Rivane Neuenschwander, who has been receiving lots of inter national...
Art in America, 12/01/06 by Gregory Volk · More from publication -
An infinity of objects: in his latest works, one of them on an atypically grand scale, Josiah McElheny plays upon modernist designs to undermine the certitudes of modernity
Josiah McElheny is a decided unusual figure in that he has chosen to work primarily in handblown glass at a time when few glass artists enjoy...
Art in America, 10/01/06 by Gregory Volk · More from publication -
Solange Fabiao in Chinatown
New York-based Brazilian artist Solange Fabiao is in the midst of an ambitious and migratory public art series she calls "Transitio." The first...
Art in America, 06/01/06 by Gregory Volk · More from publication -
Shock of the news: recent exhibitions by the Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn probed the nearly imperceptible boundaries between Western consumerism and violent world conflict
An unusual thing happened the second time I went to see Thomas Hirschhorn's recent exhibition at Barbara Gladstone Gallery. I entered the gallery...
Art in America, 06/01/06 by Gregory Volk · More from publication -
Roxy Paine at James Cohan
In the Grateful Dead's rousing Reagan-era anthem Throwing Stones, rhythm guitarist Bob Weir sings, "We will leave this place an empty stone, or...
Art in America, 05/01/06 by Gregory Volk · More from publication
