Bernarducci Meisel Gallery 37 West 57th st. New York September 8th – October 1st 2016 Reviewed by: Angela Gram The two solo shows of Dina and Maya Brodsky currently at Bernarducci Meisel Gallery immediately thrill the viewer with sheer technical virtuosity. However one must look closer to encounter subtle yet powerful subject matter and concept. Displayed…
Jacob Hicks July 24, 2016 Crickets on the end of a long leaf leap to a short stick in my pet frog’s terrarium, a sample of what nature maybe might have been. A bleak future dawns; I think oh Jesus, it is here, right here. I think how disaster slinks in quietly like a house…
Sans Marco Gallery in Joey Frank’s apartment 133 Dikeman Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn by Jacob Hicks Sans Marco is a repurposed bedroom dressed as white cube venue in the back of artist Joey Frank’s apartment. The irregularity of the space is an aside to encountering the art of Colin Oulighan, whose focused and intelligent paintings sing in this…
According to Jungian theory, the presence of a house in dreams is an archetypal representative of a return to our first house, the womb, and the way it reveals itself to us informs our understanding of the human psyche. Each room offers an opportunity to discover untold secrets of the subconscious. Stepping from the hustle…
JH: How do you feel about nature so commonly being anthropomorphized and made female? In your art there is an inversion, so the paradigm of nature becomes your male body; tell me about this… ZL: I have always inserted the male body into the realm of observed passivity, a placement that as you rightly mention…
January 8th – February 7th, 2016 ArtHelix By Kim Power Originally hailing from Sonoma County, California, Kurt Steger began his career as a skilled craftsman in furniture and cabinetry, inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement of the 1800’s. Steger found himself drawn to creating sculptural forms when he became aware that his clients were…
Martin Wittfooth’s work uses the formal tools of baroque lighting (high lit shape advancing from deep shadow) and baroque compositional structure (energetic triangulation on the diagonal). Through the mastery of the baroque and indirect oil painting technique-the stacking of transparent glazes to achieve optical color mixture- Martin constructs surrealistic dystopian visions of an abrupt reintegration of exotic animal life into the…
Curated by Jacob Hicks QuantumArtReview hosted an open call through the New York Foundation for the Arts asking for the submission of work in any medium to be considered for the second in our online exhibition series. I was thrilled with a large response, this being a new sort of experiment for me in how to…
Digital Exhibition Curated by Jacob Hicks and Francesc Ruiz Abad
Lyons Wier Gallery (all images courtesy of the gallery) November 5th to December 12th, 2015 By Kim Power The portraits created by Cayce Zavaglia are not meant to flatter. There is no idealization, only relentless recording of physiognomic traits. There is nowhere to hide from her methodical analysis of every form and tonality. This sort…
The art of Aron Wiesenfeld has a particular and peculiar relationship to the microscope. The visual field of his images, sometimes given from an ariel perspective (the all-seeing eye/the third-person omniscient), allows the removed observer to glimpse a hermetic totality vibrating with atmosphere, energy, myth, temporality, the suburban familiar, and many liminal transitions, e.g. nature and architecture, night and day, mystery and commonplace, magic and realism.…
Jane LaFarge Hamill and I met when I invited her to participate in a curation project at the now liquidated Lounge Underground Artist Collective. I distinctly remember unwrapping the first of two small paintings she delivered to the space; I was taken back in the revelation of the image. A delicately realized portrait (possibly referencing 19th century French Academic practice) sat submerged in…
