Blinds and Mirrors
Manifold intentions define portraiture in painting today: to interrogate the portrait’s capacity to frame the dynamics of identity construction and…
Features
Lisa Ruyter
The paintings of Lisa Ruyter (b. 1968, USA; lives in New York) are often described as the collision of Pop…
Double Ancient
Two recent exhibitions have invited a reconsideration of the institutional narratives associated with the scientific discipline of archaeology: Christodoulos Panayiotou’s…
It Looked Like a Universe
It’s easy to feel lost while watching one of Rachel Rose’s videos. Rather than mere confusion, this sense of disorientation…
Self-Portrait and Self
Frances Stark (b. 1967, US; lives in Los Angeles) is constantly introducing herself. “Okay, now I guess I should say…
Specters of the Avant-Garde
One day, guided by a false sense of originality, someone will write the history of the avant-garde as a long…
A Tear in the Fabric of Reality
Connecting and collating people, things and information in a practice that often extends beyond the creation of discreet art objects,…
Mediums of Conversation
The history of art in India dates back to a variety of mediums, from the renowned Ajanta Cave paintings to…
Property Relations
The conceptual work of American artist Cameron Rowland (b.1988, US; lives in New York) assumes a drily treacherous form that…
Enrico David
Enrico David’s vision is a multiform and decentralized one, dissecting and disintegrating whatever it is turned on, a gaze in…
John Latham
February 23, 2011, would have been John Latham’s 90th birthday. There was a little gathering at his house, Flat Time…
Franz Gertsch
Franz Gertsch (b.1930, Switzerland; lives in Rüschegg, Bern) painted two portraits of Johanna, the teenage daughter of a German industrialist,…
Betty Tompkins
In 1969, Betty Tompkins (b. 1945, USA; lives in New York and Mount Pleasant, PA) began her series of “Fuck…
Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo
“The fourth estate” is a term that refers to a social and political force whose influence is not consistently or…
Productive Contradictions
“Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes…
Hyperreal, if You Like
The figures in the paintings of Sascha Braunig (b. 1983, Canada; lives in Portland, ME) and Avery K. Singer (b.…