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When Philosophy and Art Intersect

by David Carrier May 2, 2020May 1, 2020

Maria Bussmann’s elusive drawings acknowledge the impossibility of fixing philosophical terms in imagery, like bugs in amber.

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The Pursuit of Art, 2016

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli December 31, 2016January 15, 2017

The first painting I saw in 2016 was “Cockman Always Rises Orange” (2015): we can’t say we weren’t warned.

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Starkly Alien and Intimately Familiar: Maria Bussmann’s Drawings of Numbers and Words

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli March 19, 2016March 20, 2016

I first saw Maria Bussmann’s work in a group exhibition at the James Nicholson Gallery in 2005, where she showed two very different sets of drawings.

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Story Lines: “The Intuitionists” at the Drawing Center

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli July 19, 2014March 15, 2016

Simultaneously confounding and illuminating, The Intuitionists at the Drawing Center is a puzzle within a puzzle, a conceptual stunt that raises sticky questions about curatorial responsibility and the structuring of aesthetic experience.

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Of Buttons and Babies, Arendt and Eichmann

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli November 24, 2012January 4, 2013

Maria Bussmann is an artist whose work is rarely seen in this country, and so her compact new show of seven large drawings and twenty-four small ones at NYU’s Deutsches Haus represents a notable opportunity to catch a glimpse of her singular sensibility.

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