Reviews
They Will Not Complete It In Their Lifetimes
It’s electric, jumping from each artist’s work, between the various materials and representations, yet they unite in their futurity to prompt questions: What will remain of us, and what transcends understanding?
Fall Exhibitions at SCAD Museum of Art
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess—The Finest Disregard
Even her utilitarian tableware—tortilla plates and coffee mugs—appear sculptural, not functional. Whereas many ceramicists, including her husband, take great pains to rid their work of evidence of their physicality, eradicating touch, pressure, emotion, and kinetic energy, Magdalena’s sculptures quiver with her presence. Fingerprints, pinch marks, patchwork, the spontaneity and surety of her brushstrokes altogether engender a perceptible alive-ness.
The Perpetual Almost
Tiffany Smith: Back Home
Gestures of Refusal:
Black Photography and Visual Culture
Gestures of Refusal: Black Photography and Visual Culture is the third installment in the Seeing Black1 series curated by Shana M. griffin. Currently on view at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, Gestures is vast and disarming. Before going, I wondered what it would look like: refusing / reiterating / recognizing a way of recounting (all) the ways that we appear to one another—as artists, as humans—swept up in the throes of Blackness. Recognizing. Reiterating. Refusing.
Choreographies of the Impossible, the 35th Bienal de São Paulo
I Like It Hot: Red, White & Royal Blue
Amanda Grae Platner: It’s Still Not Me, It’s You
In It’s Still Not Me, It’s You at Atlanta’s Echo Contemporary Art, Platner’s self-portraits and installations invite the viewer into her world. She coaxes empathy through a variety of strategies, some that are playful and interactive, others that involve showing pain.