Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | John Yau

    I first wrote about Tim Hawkinson’s extraordinary, often large mechanical sculptures constructed from everyday materials, such as soda cans, feathers, rubber tubing, and typewriters, in 2017. When I got a press release announcing an exhibition of paintings, I had to double-check to make sure this was the same artist.

  • 2 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |John Yau |Taliesin Thomas |Monica Uszerowicz

    At a moment when it’s crucial to connect the dots of history to see how we can change the future for the better, it’s heartening to know that artists are doing the work. Through linguistic systems and pop cultural references, Renée Green and Jim Shaw uncover the ways that United States history is manipulated to veil systemic and government abuses. Meanwhile, a show at Brooklyn’s Amant looks at the failings and potential of education in the US.

  • 1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |John Yau |Debra Brehmer |Alexis Clements

    Some of our favorite shows this week are all about giving new life to old things and looking at our environments from a different perspective: creative reuse, recycling and repurposing objects, and re-envisioning architecture as inviting and inclusive.

  • 1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | John Yau

    I first saw Xingzi Gu’s vaporous paintings of adolescents on the brink of adulthood at the artist’s MFA show at New York University. The child of artists living and working in Nanjing, Gu left China to study art in New Zealand after high school before moving to New York for graduate school.

  • 1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |Lisa Zhang |John Yau |Daniel Larkin |Mána Taylor

    The artists we’re highlighting this week have diverse practices, ranging from the earthy, unglazed ceramics of Stanley Rosen to the complex, multicolored tapestries of Kenny Nguyen to the embroidered textile-photographs of Spandita Malik, but all share a desire to express personal preoccupations, personalities, and concerns through their art.