Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer

1 month ago | artforum.com | Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer

To meticulously reproduce a photograph by hand is to know it most intimately—to pore over its details and devote inordinate amounts of time to re-creating a moment captured in a flash. Such exacting realism commits to the specificity of its subject, elevating its significance in turn.

Nov 30, 2024 | artforum.com | Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer

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Oct 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer |Lillian Davies |Tracey Emin |Garrett Bradley

THERE ARE 182 TAN AND BROWN CHIPMUNKS densely packed into Maija Peeples-Bright’s 1979 painting Chipmunk Chiracowas with Chickadee Chorine and Callas. There might even be more; I keep losing count. The painting’s chipmunks vary wildly in size, following the laws of neither perspective nor nature.

Mar 3, 2024 | frieze.com | Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer

stanley brouwn, who died in 2017, is among the past century’s most compelling and elusive artists. Despite being a relatively unfamiliar name among the wider public, he has been revered by fellow artists for his conceptual rigour, extreme methodology and playful, dematerialized gestures. He is nearly as known for what we don’t know about him as for what he left behind. He tightly controlled the conditions of his art’s reception, as well as information about his life and work.

Feb 2, 2023 | frieze.com | Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer

From her beginnings as a painter until her tragic death at age 52 in 1990, Joan Brown made work that was in both explicit and implicit dialogue with self-portraiture: in painting herself, Brown also painted for herself, developing a distinctive style that had little in common with her contemporaries.