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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.

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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.

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Bearing Witness to Breonna Taylor’s Life and Death

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk May 1, 2021April 30, 2021

There are many in Kentucky who wish to get beyond the Breonna Taylor tragedy, but Amy Sherald’s magnetic portrait of Taylor insists otherwise.

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The Commanding, Flamboyant Joyce Pensato

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk February 13, 2021February 12, 2021

Pensato favored pop culture flotsam marred by the real world, which she transmuted into adventurous artworks dealing with raw, real world concerns.

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Ragnar Kjartansson’s Extravagant, Enthralling Bliss

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk February 6, 2021February 5, 2021

It’s hard to imagine how three minutes of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro repeated for 12 hours can be so riveting.

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Cathartic Art for Precarious Times

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk November 7, 2020January 14, 2022

Fred Tomaselli’s incorporation of printed news in his paintings long before the pandemic now seems downright prescient.

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Rivane Neuenschwander’s Sensuous Reflections of a Harrowing World

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk October 3, 2020November 5, 2020

Fear — so pervasive these days — has long been an important theme for Neuenschwander.

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A Survey of American Art That Isn’t Just Coastal

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk March 7, 2020March 9, 2020

This thoughtfully curated exhibition is evidence that much compelling and adventurous art is indeed being produced all around the country.

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Minimalist Art that Speaks for the Birds

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk January 18, 2020January 17, 2020

With their exhibition, Look, it’s daybreak, dear, time to sing, Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens investigate the complex, cross-species relationship between birds and humans.

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Seeking the Soul of Iceland

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk December 7, 2019December 6, 2019

It is not surprising that a music star would have an exhibition at an art gallery. What is surprising is how compelling and meaningful this show, by Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi, really is.

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The Cosmic Vessels of an Adventurous Glass Artist

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk October 12, 2019October 11, 2019

Josiah McElheny’s glass vessels concentrate the ethereal and boundless into the finite and physical.

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Ragnar Kjartansson’s Panorama of Love and Death

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk June 15, 2019May 24, 2021

The artist’s Death Is Elsewhere conveys an understanding that humans — relatively recent additions to a 4.5-billion-year-old planet — will come and go. The planet will remain.

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Four Spots in the Venice Biennale to Stop You in Your Tracks

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk May 25, 2019May 24, 2019

The Biennale’s system of national pavilions may be an outdated relic, but it does succeed in putting a spotlight on countries that typically receive scant art world attention.

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Duygu Demir Appointed Curator at the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery
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A founding member of Turkish contemporary art space SALT, Demir brings to NYUAD her training in non-Western modernism and commitment to global contemporary art and cultural production.

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