Ocula Conversation Cinga Samson: ‘a different conversation on representation’ Jareh Das Cinga Samson 's paintings lay bare the complex relationship between contemporary life, African traditions, globalisation, and representation. His strikingly sombre portraits contain similarities to those of contemporary painters such as Toyin Ojih Odutola, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye , Kehinde Wiley , Florine Démosthène, and Tunji...
Ocula Report Dhaka Art Summit 2020: Seismic Movements Radha Mahendru, Dhaka Seismic Movements , the fifth Dhaka Art Summit, plotted movements, solidarities, and exchanges across the Global South with over 500 artists, scholars, curators, and thinkers.
Ocula Insight Guo Hongwei on Seeing Patterns That Don’t Exist Sherry Paik, New York Guo Hongwei's recent watercolour paintings, showing at Chambers Fine Art in New York from 3 March, trigger pareidolia—the phenomenon of seeing random objects or patterns where they do not exist.
Based in the culture-rich Back Bay area of Boston, Krakow Witkin Gallery is a leading Boston art gallery with national and international reach. Maintaining a consistent focus on minimal, reductivist, and conceptual art from the mid-20th century to the present the gallery presents the work of a diverse selection of artists, ranging from emerging Boston locals to established international names.
Read MoreBarbara Krakow, Krakow Witkin Gallery’s founder, has been an influential figure in the Boston art world since the 1960s. She began her career as an art dealer in 1959, first running a gallery space out of her own carriage house. Building on close relationships with important 20th-century artists such as her friends Sol LeWitt, Fred Sandback, and Mel Bochner, Krakow has steered her gallery through various iterations and partnerships before establishing its current space on Newbury Street in 1983. Prior incarnations include Carriage House Gallery, Parker 470, Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend, and Harcus Krakow Gallery. The Newbury Street iteration, then called the Barbara Krakow Gallery, was renamed Krakow Witkin Gallery in 2017. Its new name reflects the ongoing partnership between Krakow and artist and gallery professional Andrew Witkin, which began in 2000.
Taking advantage of its architectural configuration, Krakow Witkin Gallery holds simultaneous six-week shows exploring the work of 20th and 21st century artists through group and solo survey and thematic shows. Inspired by one of Sol LeWitt’s last drawings for the gallery in 2008, the gallery’s ongoing One Wall, One Work project allows viewers to see one artwork in isolation on its own wall. Since the early 2000s, the gallery also holds an annual benefit exhibition selling artworks to raise funds for AIDs charities. Keen to celebrate its uniquely Boston roots, the gallery is particularly active in supporting the community. The gallery is credited with bringing the art world to Boston and Boston to the art world.
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Ocula News London Auction Sales Down Despite $30m Hockney Splash London, 18 February 2020 The third highest price fetched by Hockney at auction contributed to over US $500 million in sales.
Ocula Insight Liliana Porter’s Theatre of the Absurd Tessa Moldan, Boston Liliana Porter delights in dissonance, which she stages in assemblages that place a host of recognisable characters in unlikely companionship, from rubber ducks and plastic soldiers to porcelain figures of Chairman Mao and Elvis Presley. In some scenes, minuscule figures perform colossal tasks: painting a human-sized chair, for instance, or an...
Ocula Conversation RoseLee Goldberg: Performance Then and Now Fawz Kabra RoseLee Goldberg had long been invested in contemporary performance art before her founding of the inter-disciplinary arts organisation Performa in New York in 2004. Born in Durban, South Africa, Goldberg studied political science and fine arts at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and then art history at the Courtauld...
Ocula Report Art Basel in Hong Kong 2019: A Post-mortem Diana d’Arenberg, Hong Kong Although Art Basel in Hong Kong is the youngest of the Art Basel fairs, and a relative newcomer to the international art fair circuit, it has now become a major attraction for collectors and galleries from around the world. The seventh edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong saw thousands of art courtesans and benefactors kick off the week with a...
Related Press Paper work – the British Museum shows off its collection of contemporary drawings 4 November 2019, Apollo Magazine Anish Kapoor, Louise Bourgeois, Rachel Whiteread, Gerhard Richter. These may not be names that spring to mind when you think of the British Museum, but they all have work filed away in its extensive archive of prints and drawings. 'Pushing Paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to Now' lifts a lid on a lesser-known collection at a museum renowned...
Related Press Sarah Sze’s Gleaming, Ephemeral Universe 5 October 2019, Hyperallergic The internet's utopian promise in the 1990s may have been to make the world more interconnected, but its current state has exposed the fraying that accompanies every connection. The same might be said about production and consumption, which, far from creating an efficient feedback loop, have spewed their hazardous byproducts far into the air and...
Related Press Kara Walker at Tate Modern Review: Venus, Sharks and the Sadism of Empire 4 October 2019, Frieze At the pinnacle of Kara Walker's 13-metre-high fountain in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, a Black woman's breasts and slashed jugular spurt water. It is horrifying. Maybe not so when you perceive the water as emerging only from her breasts, although the supposed excess layered onto Black femininity might jump out, but it chills to locate the source...
Related Press ArtSeen Richard Serra 2 October 2019, The Brooklyn Rail Sculptors have always had it tough. Any unique instance of exploratory form in three-dimensions ultimately can't compete with the diverse world of objects and the inexorable gravity that pressurizes it all into our consciousness. Historical ways to outwit this "outside" pressure have ranged from twisting an animated mimesis from the...
Related Video & Audio How we experience time and memory through art 30 April 2019, TED2019 Artist Sarah Sze takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey through her work: immersive installations as tall as buildings, splashed across walls, orbiting through galleries — blurring the lines between time, memory and space. Explore how we give meaning to objects in this beautiful tour of Sze's experiential, multimedia art.
Related Video & Audio Sarah Sze – ‘You Mark Time Through Objects’ | TateShots 11 January 2019, Tate Sarah Sze discusses her installation Seamless as it is installed at Tate Modern, London, 2018.
Related Video & Audio Philip Guston exhibition at Hauser reviewed by Caroline Chiu 19 June 2018, Caroline Chiu Studio Art Reviews Caroline Chiu is a Hong Kong based art critic and collector who has been presenting Caroline Chiu Studio Art Reviews with Hong Kong radio station RTHK4 since 2005. In this podcast episode, published in a collaboration between Chiu and Ocula, the Hong Kong based critic reviews the exhibition Philip Guston: A Painter's Forms, 1950–1979 at...
Related Video & Audio Sarah Sze: ‘Afterimage’ 11 June 2018, Victoria Miro 'You're having this filmic way of reading images as they move, and you move, through space.' In this film, the artist discusses the process of creating the new site-specific works in her exhibition at Victoria Miro: Images in Debris, an installation of images, light, sound, film, and objects, that seeks to transform the visitor's perception and...
