Marcus Civin

Nov 28, 2024 | artreview.com | Marcus Civin

An exhibition at The Drawing Centre of hundreds of works from the artist’s private collection seems most interested in establishing the street cred of KAWS himself Brian Donnelly came up writing graffiti in New York and New Jersey in the nineties, throwing up the tag KAWS while pulling down a paycheck as an animator for family-friendly media companies.

Jun 5, 2024 | sculpturemagazine.art | Marcus Civin

Engaging critically with precarity, power, and history, Catalina Ouyang challenges images, image-making, material assumptions, and dominant narratives with humility as well as deep visceral and theoretical conviction. Rather than signaling finite meaning, their sculptures engage the flow and erosion of ideas and intensities harbored in any constellation of things.

May 31, 2024 | sculpturemagazine.art | Marcus Civin

Tina Kim GallerySuki Seokyeong Kang’s current exhibition (on view through June 15, 2024) features 25 works from the last decade. Made from wood, painted steel, paper, silk, ink, yarn, thread, and chain, Kang’s three-dimensional forms and wall works often resemble meditative maps, magpie nests, jeweled canopies, or moveable furniture. Although Kang has created performances and videos in the past, none are on view in this show titled only with the artist’s name.

May 11, 2024 | stirworld.com | Marcus Civin

I drove seven hours from Brooklyn to see the Stanley Whitney retrospective How High the Moon at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. I could tell I wasn’t the only one who made a pilgrimage. When the guards returned to the galleries after their lunch breaks, they didn’t seem surprised to see many of us still lingering there. Although arguably one of the preeminent abstract painters in New York, Whitney is consistently humble.

Jan 10, 2024 | sculpturemagazine.art | Marcus Civin

Smack MellonAnne Wu’s modular sculptures are precise and elegant, like carefully balanced room dividers, stage sets, or three-dimensional architectural drawings. Their colors call to mind the panoply of a 99-cent store and the palette of a Buddhist temple, where blue might symbolize knowledge and yellow could stand in for notions of wealth and beauty.