ART REVIEW: After Expansion, SFMOMA Reflects a Paradigm Shift
The newly enhanced San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) officially re-opens to the public on May 14, 2016, but a flurry of...
Posts by Gabrielle Selz
ART REVIEW: Daniel Arsham and the Art of Alteration of Known Things
Artist and filmmaker Daniel Arsham explores the realm between the familiar and the unknown. In his piece, Formless Figure (2015) now...
CRITIC’S VIEW: ADAA—Eye of the Armory Art Fair Tornado
In the midst of the tornado that is Armory Art Fair week, it’s always a relief to step away from the storm and visit The Art Show...
CRITIC’S VIEW: VOLTA, Taking on The Big Boys
This year marks the eighth edition of the solo project contemporary art fair, VOLTA, and the first year it is being held in its new...
ART REVIEW: Painting’s Journey Into Modernism Explored at Vered
We often assume that new technology is the immediate tool of the artist, but this is not always the case. Take for instance the advent...
ART REVIEW: The Uncontained Art of Jason Middlebrook
Jason Middlebrook proudly refers to himself as a schizophrenic artist. For many years he has been torn between sculpture and painting....
ART REVIEW: Susan Vecsey – Convergence of Form, Color and Space
For a number of years now, Susan Vecsey—whose work is currently on view in “Susan Vecsey—Recent Paintings” at the newly opened...
ART REVIEW: At Guild Hall, Motherwell’s Process of Evolution Revealed
Though aligned with the Abstract Expressionist painters, Robert Motherwell—whose work is on view in “Robert Motherwell: The East...
ART REVIEW: At Watermill Center, A Night of Bewitching Tales
When Robert Wilson, the renowned experimental theater director, performer, video artist and patron of the Watermill Center, was asked...
Nancy Grossman: ‘Out of Control’ at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
“Art is not about being safe.” Nancy Grossman said. “Anyone who does anything great in art has to be out of control.”
The...
Critic’s View: Gems to be Found at Art Market Hamptons
With an opening party hosted by the edgy Norwood Club from Chelsea, Art Market Hamptons is the exuberant and hip fair favored by a...
ART REVIEW – Under the Influence: A Dialogue in Art
S“Art is a means of communication,” Leo Tolstoy declared in 1896. Expanding on this idea, he went on to state that art is an...
ART REVIEW: “Redacted” – The Art of Presenting the World Anew at Islip Museum
In one form or another, all artists tackle the question of what it means to bring something—an object or an idea—into form....
ART REVIEW: “#NSFW: Bodies” Explores What It Means To Be Human
In 1959, the great theologian Paul Tillich wrote in his catalogue essay for the "New Images of Man" show at MoMA: “Whenever a new...
CRITIC’S VIEW: Revelations and Secrets Inhabit Spring Break Art Fair
Public-Private is the loose theme of the 3rd Spring / Break Art Fair. The topics of exposure or revelation and secrets seems the...
CRITIC’S VIEW: Viewer Engagement a Priority at VOLTA NY
This year, the solo-project art fair, VOLTA, has returned to trendy Soho, the neighborhood that in the 1980s was the apex of the art...
Elizabeth Huey: The Infinite Container of the Imagination
A mix of the haunting and the sublime, the bucolic and perverse, “Radiant Swim,” an exhibition of new work by artist Elizabeth...
Artists Choose Artists: A Visual Dialogue of the East End Part II
This week, Hamptons Art Hub continues with the second half of a review that looks at the biannual exhibition “Artists Choose...