At the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Tatsuo Miyajima uses light to reflect on the transcendent, spiritual, and experiential aspects of time.
Susan Silas
Susan Silas is a visual artist and occasional writer living in Brooklyn.
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A Forgotten 20th-Century Photographer Who Folded Her Work into the Fabric of Life
An exhibition at the Americas Society spotlights Kati Horna, who believed that the circulation of images, rather than the standalone photograph, could bring about social change.
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Framing Cindy Sherman Against a Hollywood Backdrop
LOS ANGELES — I have not always been an unalloyed fan of Cindy Sherman.
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Conjuring a Piece of the Earth by Its Outline
Upon entering Odetta gallery in Bushwick, one is confronted with an irregular but geometric plywood sculpture that nearly fills the space, hovering within an inch of the floor.
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The Virtual Is Liminal: An Interview with Claudia Hart
I first met Claudia Hart in 1995, when she was living in Berlin and I had gone there to do research for a project.
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Using Cameras to Commune with Nature
Without being heavy handed, Tegg’s exhibition reminds us that this connection to the animal kingdom (of which we are a part) is integral to our survival, at least for as long as we require bodies to function in the physical world.
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Altarpieces for the Digital Age
Enter Transfer gallery and your entire field of vision is instantly taken up by a vast screen, measuring 10 by 10 feet, nearly the width of the room.
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A Show of Over 100 Women Artists Offers Redress but No Resolution
MIAMI — The exhibition of over 100 women artists currently on view at the Rubell Family Collection is difficult to review because the works do not all fit into the space and the decision was made to rotate them over the course of the show.
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The Larger-Than-Life Projections of a Modern-Day Artist Adventurer
MIAMI BEACH — Janet Biggs is a modern day adventurer, an explorer in the best sense.
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A Woman Artist Who Turns Pornography into Painting
When I was coming of age, I did not have access to explicit images of female or male genitalia.
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On Sexual Paintings and Shifting Images: An Interview with Joan Semmel
I have known about Joan Semmel for a long time. But recently I began thinking about the parallel concerns between my own practice and the work of this artist 20 or so years my senior.
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Conjuring the Anxiety of Domestic Spaces During War
It was clear to me that Helene Kazan still believes that it is the visual, the image, that will convey the information she wants to get across.
