Reviews Claire Pentecost “The Persistence of the Unsorted” at Garfield Park Conservatory Bert Geyer August 1, 2018 Garfield Park ConservatoryClaire Pentecost Something is awry though. The bison-person with its lateral bovine eyes simultaneously looks at us monocularly, off starboard, and binocularly ahead to the palm canopy. It seems vigilant and stoic.
Reviews Tim Nickodemus “Second Hand Land Scapes Blue Drawings after Joseph E. Yoakum” at The Roger Brown Study Collection Nicole Mauser July 25, 2018 The Roger Brown Study CollectionTim Nickodemus Place memory gently skews and warps the perspective allowing interpretation to permeate the lived landscapes of both Yoakum and Nickodemus. Yoakum described his work as a “spiritual unfoldment.” Much like how a map expands or contracts, memory unfolds primary experience onto the landscape in unpredictable and idiosyncratic ways.
Reviews Mel Keiser and Melga Blank “Museum of The Mels” at Wedge Projects Annette LePique July 11, 2018 Wedge ProjectsMel Keiser The liveliness of Keiser’s memory and care highlight the capriciousness of this scientific schema – do Blank, Keiser, and all of the Mels provide reliable narration? Are all visitors together in a Mel eternal recurrence?
Reviews Santina Amato “Monster” at Heaven Gallery Janet Cheung July 7, 2018 Heaven GallerySantina Amato When the dough was ready, she broke it into balls and stuffed one after another into the small vessels––as if injecting a fertilized egg into a womb. This anomalous conception beckoned chaos.
Reviews “& Eat it Too!” at the Condo Association MK Meador July 5, 2018 The Condo AssociationCake Butt CollectiveEdward CabralErik PetersonJillian Hansen-LewisJoshua Michael JenkinsLauren CarterMatthew HilshorstProtest CakesYvette Mayorga Cake may be sweet, but it isn’t all that simple.
Reviews Angelika Markul, “If the hours were already counted” + Liz McCarthy, “Handles Expenditure” at Sector 2337 Brit Barton & Gareth Kaye June 13, 2018 Sector 2337Angelika MarkhulLiz McCarthy Markul’s camera probes the depths of the cave, reaching between crevices and around corners, showing the scientists playing like astronauts making the first contact with an unfamiliar and hostile planet.
Reviews “In a house, Tinted and Patterned”: John Schacht and Queer Ornament at Iceberg Projects Willy Smart May 29, 2018 Iceberg ProjectsJohn Schacht The doodled flower and genitals aren’t seductive for their subtlety or extension, but for their presence and play around the borders of something else. Hence the initial wink of familiarity in John Schacht’s works on view at Iceberg Projects: not the slow dawning awareness of a form’s luridness but the flashed recognition of, if not this rose or this cock, certainly this type of blossom.
Reviews Emily Jones “Sand Dollar Sea Biscuit” at Prairie Micah Schippa April 11, 2018 PrairieEmily Jones At any given moment, at any given scale, Jones’ work skateboards back and forth (or perhaps tendrils out like a cephalopod) between organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere, almanac, or even dramaturgy.
