John O’Reilly’s work reflects and refracts the history of art, as well as the history of looking, scanning, and reading an image.
Author Archives: Jeff McMahon
Jeff McMahon is a writer and performer presented since 1980 by numerous venues in the Americas and Europe. 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. Since 2001, he has taught in the School of Film, Dance, and Theatre, Arizona State University, where he is associate professor. Lives in Arizona and New York.
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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.