Galleries: Painting turns conceptual as you look Kenneth Baker Saturday, September 22, 2007 Under what circumstances does painting turn into conceptual art? You can see it happen in the work of German artist Markus Linnenbrink at Sweetow, which at first looks excessively optical. Viewer fatigue effects the conversion. We reasonably demand that a […]
Visual Art Fifteen minutes is enough time to discover that Markus Linnenbrink’s paintings combine muscular methodology with a fondness for glitter and droll humor. By Johnny Ray Huston Fifteen minutes with Markus Linnenbrink? Well, I didn’t say no – and didn’t regret spending that amount of time and a bit more […]
Washingtonian July, 2007 By Mary Clare Fleury Video Art Holds a New Take on Race Relations Jefferson Pinder came up with the idea for his exhibit “Juke” while driving around Washington. Pinder, a video artist, found himself turning down the volume on bands like Radiohead and Ben Folds Five. He asked himself why he felt […]
Weather Channels By DAVID COHEN May 17, 2007 When it comes to painting, evoking the elements calls for elemental solutions. In three beautiful exhibitions in Chelsea right now, contemporary artists balance a fascination with water, clouds, and ethereal, billowing forms with audacious experimental attitudes toward traditional materials. Each body of work manifests a heightened consciousness […]
Artillery March 2007 by Tucker Neel Jefferson Pinder G Fine Arts Washington, DC With his recent video installation entitled Juke, Jefferson Pinder not only exhibits a penetrating knowledge of America’s schizophrenic fascination with race and identity, he proves himself to have an ear for music as well. The beauty of Pinder’s installation is that it […]
The Washington Post By Jessica Dawson First Impressions, Second Thoughts A rare, complicated and utterly engaging video work by Maryland artist Jefferson Pinder is on view in the back room of G Fine Art. Called “Juke,” the piece uses a hoary bit of showbiz treachery — lip-syncing — to force us to think about our […]
ASIAN POP / Art Breakers A new generation of Asian American artists challenges outmoded expectations of what it means to be Asian, American and — for that matter — a “new generation.” By Jeff Yang Monday, October 16, 2006 When you step into the atrium leading to Asia Society’s new exhibition of works by contemporary […]
I LIKE the title of the Asia Society’s latest, and possibly best, foray into contemporary art. “One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now” borrows a familiar colloquialism for go-it-alone ingenuity and persistence under pressure, not bad qualities for a young artist. The phrase is also the title of the 1978 punk standard by Blondie, […]
Defying The Definitive By Daniel Kunitz September 14, 2006 To what degree does an artist’s heritage inform his work? It is a particularly American question, since, no matter how deep our roots in this soil may dig, all of us have, to some degree, a multiple identity. But so what? Shouldn’t an American artist be […]
RHIZOME.ORG at THE NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Net Art News February 1, 2006 Punching the Clock By Peggy MacKinnon “Clockwork,” a documentary-style series of four short multi-channel video works by Jeanne C. Finley and John Muse, centers around the concept of time–as social ordering tool, as cultural construct, and as an intrinsic element in […]