Richard R. Speer

Dec 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Richard R. Speer

With their glossy surfaces and immaculate geometries, the paintings and sculptures in Beverly Fishman’s “The Pursuit of Perfection” betrayed no residue of the artist’s hand. Although composed of wooden armatures undergirding myriad layers of urethane paint, their surfaces read as metal, fiberglass, or plastic: hermetic, industrial, and inviolable materials.

May 7, 2024 | artforum.com | Mitchell Anderson |WEFTBy Eve Hill-Agnus |Eve Hill-Agnus |Richard R. Speer

Gallery Weekend Berlin celebrates its twentieth anniversary“YES, BITCH! BERLIN‘S GOT IT!” a local curator exclaimed midway through the weeklong festivities of Gallery Weekend Berlin, expressing a view that seemed rare and unanimous: Excellent shows were opening everywhere.

May 3, 2024 | artforum.com | Eve Hill-Agnus |Richard R. Speer |Fashiona Stitch |Ada O’Higgins

The Fourth Tbilisi Art Fair showcases an ever evolving urban tapestryWhere to begin? Perhaps with the graffiti I see at the Fabrika factory turned “multifunctional urban space” on the left bank of the Kura River in Tbilisi. Gritty, gorgeous, wildly colorful, it is indicative of the ubiquity and dynamism of art in the Georgian capital.

May 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Richard R. Speer

Until recently, painter, printmaker, and poet Walasse Ting (1928–2010) was often thought of, artistically, as “always the bridesmaid, never the bride,” more a supporting actor than a creative force unto himself. “Parrot Jungle,” his first American museum retrospective, aimed to redress that impression by exploring his uniquely transnational aesthetic, which married East Asian sensibilities with a hedonic, Matissean approach to figuration and still life.