Ekin Erkan

New York

Writer at Hyperallergic

Contributor and Critic at Freelance

🇹🇷 Türk. Philosopher & Art Critic writing about Kant, German Idealism, and aesthetics.

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Articles

Rusudan Petviashvili's US debut

2 weeks ago | whitehotmagazine.com | Ekin Erkan

By EKIN ERKAN March 17, 2025When the Georgian artist, Rusudan Petviashvili (born in Tblisi on January 25, 1968), exhibited her work at Paris at the green age of twelve, Pablo Picasso lauded her works as “genius”. Legend has it that she had started painting at one and a half years old, exacting reems of works on paper, and had her first exhibition at age six.
"The animal-based symbolism of Korean folklore" - Sun Hee Yang: An Artisan of the Dancheong and Minhwa Genres

Mar 17, 2025 | whitehotmagazine.com | Ekin Erkan

By EKIN ERKAN March 17, 2025 Sun Hee Yang is exacting in her engagement with the Dancheong genre, a traditional Korean decorative style that makes use of variegated colors. The Dancheong style, rife with colorful floral crest patterns, is best known for adorning wooden building and structures, including royal palaces and temples. Dancheong rose in popularity in Korea, China, and Japan in tandem with Buddhism and Confucianism’s burgeoning adoption.
A Journey to America

Mar 11, 2025 | wetheitalians.com | Ekin Erkan

BY: Ekin ErkanThe first United States retrospective dedicated to the titular artist, Magazzino Italian Art's Maria Lai: A Journey to America is exceptional. Born in 1919 in Ulassai, Italy, and passing at the age of ninety-three in the nearby Nuoro commune of Cardedu, Lai bore witness to decades of art history and its myriad constituent avant-garde movements.
Discovering the work of Buford: a New York artist who has created public architectural sites in Berlin, Paris, Seoul, Beijing and Venice

Aug 6, 2024 | whitehotmagazine.com | Ekin Erkan

By EKIN ERKAN August 6. 2024Gordon Matta-Clark’s public installations, like those of his compatriots Dennis Oppenheim and Robert Smithson, was formed outside the parameters of standard gallery presentation. Furthermore, like Mary Miss and Tadashi Kawamata, Matta-Clark appropriated public sites; his work engaged a sense of place, assailing existing buildings’ structural integrity.
Rita Ackermann: Splits

Jul 1, 2024 | brooklynrail.org | Ekin Erkan

ArtSeen On View Hauser & WirthSplitsMay 2–July 26, 2024New York Rita Ackermann’s recent series of paintings, “Splits,” utilizes leitmotifs and a painterly vocabulary that the artist has been developing since the 1990s: doe-eyed and coquettish nymphets, filmic references, erasure, and the Bildungsroman or coming-of-age narrative.
Wayne Thiebaud: Summer Days

May 31, 2024 | brooklynrail.org | Ekin Erkan

JUNE 2024 Issue ArtSeen On View AcquavellaSummer DaysApril 26–June 14, 2024New York Wayne Thiebaud: Summer Days surveys exemplary works from the late artist’s career, most of which are, as the title suggests, preoccupied with summer scenes.
Constructed Realities: Deborah Wasserman

May 31, 2024 | whitehotmagazine.com | Ekin Erkan

By EKIN ERKAN May 30, 2024"If we opened people up, we'd find landscapes…” – Agnes Varda, The Beaches of Agnes (2008, dir. Agnes Varda)In her new exhibition at Kuma Lisa Gallery (Melody Tian-Clark’s new gallery in the Lower East Side), Deborah Wasserman, born in Sao Paolo and raised in Israel but now based in Jackson Heights, Queens, thematically navigates the planting of possibilities, the immanence of refuge, and the state of the nomad wander.
Deborah Wasserman

May 30, 2024 | whitehotmagazine.com | Ekin Erkan

By EKIN ERKAN May 30, 2024"If we opened people up, we'd find landscapes…” – Agnes Varda, The Beaches of Agnes (2008, dir. Agnes Varda)In her new exhibition at Kuma Lisa Gallery (Melody Tian-Clark’s new gallery in the Lower East Side), Deborah Wasserman, born in Sao Paolo and raised in Israel but now based in Jackson Heights, Queens, thematically navigates the planting of possibilities, the immanence of refuge, and the state of the nomad wander.
Lucy Mackenzie: Still

Apr 30, 2024 | brooklynrail.org | Ekin Erkan

ArtSeen On View Nancy Hoffman GalleryStillMarch 21–May 25, 2024New York Entering Lucy Mackenzie’s exhibition at Nancy Hoffman, simply (and aptly) titled “Still, the viewer espies a channel of postcard-sized still lifes lining the gallery walls. If one is not familiar with Mackenzie’s work, they might be forgiven for mistaking her paintings for photographs.
Mary Lum: Temporary Arrangements

Apr 30, 2024 | brooklynrail.org | Ekin Erkan

On View Yancey RichardsonTemporary ArrangementsApril 4–May 18, 2024New York Mary Lum's exhibition, Temporary Arrangements, features fifteen acrylic-on-paper and mixed-media collages. Like those gathered for her 2022 Yancey Richardson exhibition, When the Sky is a Shape, here Lum’s works neatly employ an amalgamation of art historic devices. These include décollage, asemic writing, and post-painterly abstraction, each of which betray a degree of modernist influence.