Ara Osterweil

May 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Ara Osterweil |Barry Schwabsky |Vaginal Davis |Rick Owens

The female predators of recent cinemaFROM D. W. GRIFFITH’S incendiary Birth of a Nation (1915) and Broken Blossoms (1919) to Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 adaptation of Lolita (1955) to Brooke Shields’s performance as a preteen prostitute in Pretty Baby (1978) to the infatuation with a teenager that sets off Kevin Spacey’s midlife crisis in American Beauty (1999), American cinema’s audiences have been riveted by depictions of intergenerational relationships and intimations of predatory abuse.

Feb 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Ara Osterweil |Travis Jeppesen |DiaryThe FOG |Andrew Berardini

On the art of MarisolI FIRST HEARD about Marisol from a fellow painter who had started exhibiting his work in the 1960s. We were sitting at Puffy’s Tavern in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood shortly after the turn of the millennium. This used to be a real artists’ bar. Marisol hung out here all the time, he said, pronouncing her name with the reverence usually reserved for that other icon of Pop art, Marilyn Monroe. Who was Marisol (1930–2016) and why had I never heard of her?

Feb 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Elizabeth Mangini |James Cahill |Ara Osterweil |On Siteglamour

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Oct 7, 2023 | bordercrossingsmag.com | Ara Osterweil

“Cosmography” is the word that came to mind as I stepped into Amy Schissel’s recent exhibition. Spanning from floor to ceiling, Schissel’s black and white works on paper scintillate like a planetarium clustered with stars. Up close, they overwhelm with kinetic energy and intricate detail.

Feb 1, 2023 | artforum.com | Ara Osterweil

Kaveri Raina, Wish It Was Otherwise; Lack Of—Revisited, 2022, acrylic, graphite, and oil pastel on burlap, 80 × 48". Corporeal forms and abstract shapes collide on unprimed, earthen fields in Kaveri Raina’s breathtaking paintings. The first time I saw them, in a 2019 group show at New York’s Luhring Augustine, their intense hues stopped me in my tracks. Reencountering her work in this solo show, I was struck anew by the augmented feeling in their forms.