Sep 26, 2022 · Directed by Weiss’s partner and frequent collaborator Richard C. Martinez, the production was described by one critic as a “frightening study of paralyzing anxiety,” with the protagonist subjecting his audience to a “cascade of fantasies, reminiscences, meditations, poetry-readings, and miscellaneous schticks.”

Like all Weiss’ work, And That’s How the Rent Gets Paid is true “poor theater”: the set is a sheetlike canvas backdrop behind two platforms, different rooms are suggested by rearrangements of the same chairs, flashlights are used as spotlights. This literal make-believe is played both knowingly—for laughs, as when two coffee cups are ...

Jeffrey Weiss on On Kawara (1933–2014) By Jeffrey Weiss. September 3, 2014 11:22 am. New York

By Jeff Gibson. Print Summer 2019. New York. Rodney Graham. 303 Gallery. By Jeff Gibson. Print March 2019 ...

Jeff Koons, Rabbit, 1986, stainless steel, 41 x 19 x 12.” WHEN I FIRST SAW RABBIT, in the “neo-geo” group show at Sonnabend in 1986, I was dumbstruck. It seemed to me instantly, by involuntary reflex—and still does by long reflection—that this bunny is one of those very rare hits at the exact center of the target.

Jan 14, 2023 · There is a figure in Jeff Wall’s light-box photograph, The Old Prison, 1987, that is easy to miss. In reproductions, he is barely visible, lost in the long and protracted expansiveness of the panorama. Viewing the work in person, one sees the man pop out of the picture, punctuating the landscape in his red sweater.

David Kennedy Cutler repeatedly upends the dichotomous correlation of figure and ground by layering, cutting, and folding form and content into perceptual conundrums whose cognitive and sensory apprehension demands a gleefully intense level of scrutiny. Puzzling out the organizational logic of the planes and signifiers comprising his compositions can be dizzying, disorienting even, yet the ...

Dec 11, 2024 · Jeff Gibson is an artist, an occasional critic, and the managing editor of Artforum. A monograph devoted to his artwork, Jeff Gibson: False Gestalt, was published this year by Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, and Perimeter Editions, Melbourne.

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Sofía Córdova, Green is A Solace, A Promise of Peace (where small birds hide and dodge and lift their plaintive rallying cries) (detail), 2022, taxidermied doves, parakeets, and canaries, hair dye, brass, birch wood.