Michelle Grabner

Dec 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Michelle Grabner

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Nov 12, 2024 | art.newcity.com | Michelle Grabner

It’s an unfortunate oversight that Chicago’s institutions haven’t done more to celebrate Benny Andrews’ (1930-2006) remarkable contribution to painting. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute, Andrews’ decades-long dedication to figurative work amplified the representational qualities of expression by deploying articles of clothing, painted fabric and crumbled paper into his compositions.

Oct 15, 2024 | art.newcity.com | Michelle Grabner

The twenty-nine paintings crowding the walls of the vast storefront gallery in Chicago’s Logan Square makes “Ours Is the Hand that Sews Time” much more than a winsome father-and-son exhibition. Instead, the exhibition is a passionate declaration on how the qualities of painting mature in performing daily practice. It also highlights the fundamental position that to be a painter means to work in close relationship with histories.

Jun 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Michelle Grabner

German playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz and his 1972 radio play Inklusive (Included)—a seven-scene script, adapted from a travel brochure, that recounts the activities of a West German couple on an all-expenses-paid trip to Italy, performed by actors with Bavarian accents—were the organizing force behind Christopher Williams’s exhibition “Radio/Rauhfaser/Television.” This presentation furthered the artist’s examination of postwar class issues in Germany and the aesthetics and conventions of der...

Mar 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Rachel Wetzler |Carol Armstrong |Molly Warnock |Michelle Grabner

Thomas Hirschhorn’s Fake It, Fake It – till you Fake It., 2023 THOMAS HIRSCHHORN’S Fake it, Fake it – till you Fake it., 2023, opens with a subtle intervention—perhaps the only subtle part of this characteristically chaotic display (the artist abhors the term installation): a length of cardboard partly blocking the threshold between the vestibule of Gladstone Gallery’s Twenty-First Street location in New York and the cavernous main exhibition space, narrowing the entryway and, in turn,...