The Brooklyn Rail
Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture
June 2005
ArtSeen
Sophie Calle
by Megan HeuerArtSeen
“I left for Japan on October 25, 1984, unsuspecting that this date would mark the beginning of a 92 day countdown to the end of a love affair.” So begins Exquisite Pain, Sophie Calle’s suite of photographs and texts centered on the experience of intimate rejection.
OK/OKAY: Recent Art From Europe
by Thomas MicchelliArtSeen
We may have waded through our fair share of new British art since the Sensation show of 1999, but ambitious surveys of little-known continental artists are still hard to come by.
Under The Rainbow
by William PowhidaArtSeen
Part of the inaugural Project Diversity series, Under the Rainbow presents the diverse works of fourteen artists selected from over 1,000 entries for the broader show, which includes 200 artists at seventeen spaces across Brooklyn.
Neo Rauch
by James KalmArtSeen
A dusty, smudged figure stands at the crest of a sheer precipice, his face strained but ardent.
Unica Züm: Drawings from the 1960s
by Geoffrey Cruickshank-HagenbuckleArtSeen
The high risks and rewards of an uncurbed passion for nearly impossible art.
Ron Gorchov
by Ben La RoccoArtSeen
Ron Gorchov is from a generation of painters singled out by Barbara Rose as passionately committed to painting as a transcendental art.
Michael Ryan
by Roger KamholzArtSeen
With a repertoire of unlikely materials and self-taught techniques, Michael Ryan paints landscapes saturated in a fog of anxiety, full of bleary and grimacing visions.
Charles Cajori
by Ben La RoccoArtSeen
A founding member of the Tanager Gallery and intimate associate of the 10th Street School, Charles Cajori has had an extraordinary career steeped in the history of twentieth-century art.
Thomas Trosch
by James KalmArtSeen
With the glut of galleries, fairs, and massive “new talent” shows, it’s gone beyond “easy access” to something approaching force-feeding.
Karin Davie
by Roger KamholzArtSeen
Karin Davie’s recent paintings consist of dense layers of profoundly sustained, boldly colored brushstrokes that loop and bend across the canvas.
Cai Guo-Qiang
by William PowhidaArtSeen
t’s ironic that a Chinese artist should make one of the more important political statements about the convergence of devastation, celebration, and heroism in the midst of an American war on terror.
Jasper Johns
by Tomassio LonghiArtSeen
It has been said that a painter’s “late style,” when old age prevails, is characterized by the coincidence of simplicity of pictorial forms and high ambition.
Kara Walker
by M. WeimerArtSeen
There is something particularly powerful about public art that injects itself into our quotidian routine, slowly working on the imagination.
