Fernández employs motifs of darkness and obscurity to hint at the something beyond what we see.
Author Archives: Louis Bury
Louis Bury is the author of Exercises in Criticism (Dalkey Archive Press, 2015) and Assistant Professor of English at Hostos Community College, CUNY. He contributes regularly to BOMB, and has published art writing in the Brooklyn Rail and Art in America, as well as creative writing in Boston Review and the Believer.
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Mary Mattingly Confronts Climate Change With Utopic Resourcefulness
Mattingly’s landscape photographs evoke each site’s geologic timeline.
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Zac Skinner’s Survivalist Sculptures
Skinner imagines the jury-rigged technology that would enable survival in the wake of apocalyptic climate disaster.
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Kiyan Williams Digs Into the Meaning of Soil
In her film on view at the Shed, the artist explores dirt’s unsettling aesthetic effects, as well as its conceptual resonances.
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Red Flags Are Flying at Rockefeller Center
Andy Goldsworthy’s installation seeks to signal anti-imperialism at a notoriously capitalist site.
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Martha Tuttle’s Sentient Stones at Storm King
When used as wayfinding landmarks or burial mounds, piles of stones can have an air of mystery about them.
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Take a Virtual Nature Walk at Wave Hill
The cultural center has successfully reimagined an exhibition to better suit an online presentation.
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Nature as Filtered Through a Screen
How do we experience eco-art online and what might it suggest about the nature of the digital gallery experience?
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Digital Meditations on Water
Sarah Rothberg and Marina Zurkow reveal water’s unearthliness.
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Getting Your Weather Report at the Art Museum
At the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, artworks confront their own untimeliness through appeals to a deeper, more cosmic, sense of space and time.
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Nature Offers the Best Designs at the Cooper Hewitt Triennial
Objects on display designed to be green substitutes for those that are ecologically harmful or failing are among the most thought-provoking in this exhibition.
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Agnes Denes’s Future Imperfect
Spanning half a century, this retrospective reveals Denes’s art to be so forward-looking that some of it remains ahead of its time even today.