• Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
Skip to content
Hyperallergic

Hyperallergic

Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Membership
Avatar photo

Gregory Volk

Gregory Volk is a New York-based art critic, freelance curator, and associate professor in the Department of Sculpture + Extended Media and the Department of Painting + Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Posted inArt

A Cabinet of Curiosities, Minus the Cabinet

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk May 17, 2023May 18, 2023

Nina Katchadourian’s Uncommon Denominator is one of the most unusual and engrossing shows that I’ve encountered in years.

Posted inArt

What Is Hospitality in an Era of Crises?

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk February 16, 2023February 16, 2023

I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality goes well beyond the conventional meaning of “hospitality” as generosity and conviviality.

Posted inArt

Pussy Riot Rocks Reykjavík

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk January 8, 2023January 12, 2023

Coursing through Velvet Terrorism is graphic evidence of how these spirited women have been constantly attacked by the patriarchy.

Posted inArt

Two Sparse Brooklyn Exhibitions Probe the Elemental Forces of Life

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk November 3, 2022November 3, 2022

Things have their own power and agency in the artist’s installation and humans are part of a complex world of life forms and materials.

Posted inArt

Ken Lum Holds Up a Mirror to the World 

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk October 18, 2022October 18, 2022

With their sophisticated interplay between image, text, materials, color and driving ideas, Lum’s works often have a pronounced emotional impact.

Posted inArt

Ascending Into the Realm of Naudline Pierre’s Mystical Paintings

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk June 16, 2022June 16, 2022

Encountering Pierre’s dynamic, intensely colorful oil paintings, sculptures, and works on paper is like entering a spiritually charged, alternate world.

Posted inArt

Terry Adkins’s Objects of Wonder

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk May 29, 2022May 27, 2022

An exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery underscores not only how engaging and innovative, but also influential and visionary Adkins really was, and remains.

Posted inArt

For An Icelandic Conceptual Art Pioneer, Home Was His Inspiration

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk April 20, 2022April 20, 2022

Birgir Andrésson was steeped in Iceland’s ways and lore, landscape and history. It was also his complex subject and an energizing force.

Posted inArt

An Artist Honors Iceland’s Wild Nature from a Distance

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk December 15, 2021December 15, 2021

Jónsi hasn’t just utilized natural materials but has, one senses, collaborated with them, allowing them their own innate power.

Posted inArt

The Profound Soul of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk October 14, 2021October 14, 2021

While hardly about the pandemic, or any of the other crises so afflicting us, all are invoked in this exhibition, which is also often tender and profoundly soulful.

Posted inArt

A Group Exhibition in Iceland Trades Local Character for International Appeal

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk October 7, 2021October 7, 2021

Many of the works in Iðavöllur are big and chock-full of issues and socially engaged ideas, like so much art elsewhere.

Posted inArt

Ragna Róbertsdóttir’s Landscapes in Lava

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk July 24, 2021July 23, 2021

The Icelandic artist fashions sculptures and wall works from the primary substance of her volcanic and volatile homeland.

Posts navigation

1 2 3 4 Older posts
Yale University Press Presents The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments
Sponsored

Yale University Press Presents The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments

Kelly Grovier discusses his book on the history of pigments in a new podcast episode, making the case for how myths and science can enrich how we experience art.

Hyperallergic
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn

Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today. Founded in 2009, Hyperallergic is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Home
  • Latest
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • About
  • Support Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Sign In
  • Membership
  • Newsletters
  • Submissions
  • Careers
© 2023 Hyperallergic. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy