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Author Archives: Jeff McMahon
Jeff McMahon is a writer and performer. He holds an MFA from the Writing Program, School of the Arts, Columbia University, and a BA in Interdisciplinary Art from SUNY/Empire State College. He is a Professor in the School of Music, Dance, and Theatre, Arizona State University, and lives in Arizona and New York. www.jeffmcmahonprojects.net
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John O’Reilly’s Radical Photomontages
John O’Reilly’s work reflects and refracts the history of art, as well as the history of looking, scanning, and reading an image.
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Studio Eye
Walking through In the Studio: Photographs, a three-part show organized by Peter Galassi, former Chief Curator of Photography at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and spread over several floors of the Gagosian empire on Madison Avenue, the underlying themes of accumulation, storage, labeling, and just plain looking remind us how artists often surround themselves with visual repertories.
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Surgery as Performance Art: A Restoration Comedy
I’m in a surgical center in Scottsdale, Arizona, being treated as if I were an esteemed guest at a Marriot. Better. A series of very nice people are being serially very nice to me, asking me questions, checking-in with how I feel, giving appropriate boosts.