Jenny Saville’s latest work exhibited at Gagosian’s Jenny Saville: Ancestors in Chelsea, New York is markedly layered both literally and figuratively speaking. What do I mean? First of all, her artistic process is revealed on the canvas. After you take in a work as a whole and begin to notice sections, in one area you may …
Category: My Writing and Curatorial Portfolio
Connecting Painting and Sculpture by way of Unsuspecting, Inanimate Objects
Have you ever walked into a gallery, and upon encountering a work, you got a sense of déjà vu? You see, like many others working in the art field, I have a habit of going about, visiting museums and galleries. This, in turn, leads to the semi-obsessive researching of artists whose works I am less familiar …
Writing Portfolio: Exhibition Articles for a Gallery
Here are two links to articles I wrote to present two exhibitions curated for the fall season for Hawthorne Fine Art: Autumn Splendor: Fall Landscapes in American Art Exhibition: “Our Metropolis: Paintings of New York City by American Artists”
Food for Thought: When Buildings become the Exhibit
Consider for a moment, how The Metropolitan Museum’s extension into the Breuer building is still a topic of discussion over a year later. Art and architectural critics have been examining this move mostly in terms of interpreting The Met’s desires and efforts to expand into the contemporary art and design world. One aspect of this …
What we can all Learn from Athens: documenta 14
This summer I visited documenta 14 in Athens. It was the first year this influential art fair extended beyond the boundaries of Kassel to include Greece. I felt especially lucky that it coincided my first trip back since I moved to New York. The famous quinquennial art fair this year, regardless of how highly anticipated …
An Article on Cecily Brown, Curated by Claire Gilman
Last summer, I had the pleasure of working at The Drawing Center under Chief Curator, Claire Gilman for curatorial work, and Molly Gross for museum communications. While there, I was lucky enough to get glimpses of the plans for the, then, upcoming exhibition Cecily Brown: Rehearsal. Fast forward months later, IFA Contemporary accepted my article …
Review of the Art on Paper Fair 2016
Among other matters, paper’s relevance as a medium, and pushing beyond the basic understanding of what is the paper medium are discussed in this article. It is, overall, a thorough review of the Art on Paper Fair that took place earlier in 2016 in New York for IFA Contemporary. The entire piece is available for …
A Multisensory Experience at the Opening of the Onassis Foundation’s Festival, Fall 2015
In early October, 2015 New York’s Onassis Foundation hosted a festival in its newly renovated Atrium and gallery to mark the reopening of its Cultural Center. The festival, entitled Narcissus Now: the Myth Reimagined, consisted of an unforgettable opening ceremony and art exhibition, followed by several talks and lectures by renowned scholars and professionals in …
Allure – Delicious and Profound
Curated by Tiffany M. Apostolou Works by Dae Young Kim and Rebecca Salmon March 1 – 5, 2016 80WSE Galleries 80 Washington Square East New York, NY 10003 For a week, works by two budding artists were featured in Gallery #1 of 80WSE Galleries. The exhibition displayed a balance of works, both sculptural and flat, aiming to give the viewer …
El Greco, the Holy Light, and Ties to Byzantium
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