-“After the show is over…it gets taken away with a shovel.” Today’s NY Times has a good article on sculptor Tara Donovan. (The one true C-Monster has a link straight to the slideshow.)
-“These paintings are slippery, full of illusions and both contain and inspire free association.” Cathy Quinlan’s review of the current Judy Glantzman show is over at Artcritical.
-Kansas City’s Dolphin Gallery has moved to a new, larger space. Art Motel Radio and Shorttage have covered it.
-If you see a thoughtful review of work that might interest us, or something that we ought to cover please go ahead and email it to us at mwcapacity@gmail.com. Or leave a comment. I’d still L.O.V.E. to get some more specifics on the HUB project in Bloomington. Can someone just say what the experience of a viewer walking into one or the other part of this project is exactly? Neither press release is very specific.
Good links all. I really like Tara Donovan’s stuff. Her work, more than many others, makes me wonder what she’ll do next.
Agreed.
I’ve already added that Donovan monograph mentioned in the article to my Amazon wishlist.
one of the things i love about donovan or olafur eliasson (or katarina fritsch, or sarah sze) is that they really make me evaluate my loyalty to the rectangle – hell, to the edge itself even. one of the things that happened when i moved away from large paintings/drawings and was working smaller on the pentagonal panels over the last couple years is that my mind started so see all of these different formal possibilities, and i recognized that it’s people like those mentioned above here who are actually dealing with expansive experiences – things i couldn’t do no matter how large i worked, or how i tried to alter the edge of the picture plane. since then i’ve started to work a lot smaller, on tondos or in amorphous ways that don’t engage the edge so much… anyway, looking at donovan’s work in the NYTs slide show and reading about it in the article really just connected to where i am right now: looking for something more expansive than i’ve been experiencing in my own work of late…
anyone else feel this from time to time?
I too am loving the Tara Donovan work, and reading all articles about her that are everywhere right now. I have this feeling that it would be basically impossible for me to resist touching her work. I would LalaLOOOVE to read an interview between Donovan and Tom Friedman.
Taking off from what Matt Ballou said about Tara Donovan’s work pushing the edge of the picture plane–I remember seeing an exhibit of her work at the St. Louis Art Museum. There was this magical piece in a semi-dark room made entirely of plastic drinking straws sticking straight out from the wall. From even 2 feet away, it was impossible to identify exactly what one was looking at–the straws appeared to move, they would quite locate in space, much the same way that her pieces won’t conform to the rectangle. A group led by a docent was asked to take guess as to what they were looking at. People thought it a digital video, a box filled with smoke, etc.
Also to answer Matt’s question: I definitely feel that way some times too. I tend to get sucked back by the thought that it’s amazing how magical the edge of the rectangle CAN be when there are all these other possibilities. Someday I do intend to push the expansiveness envelope.
oh moochas grassy ass. 🙂
yeah. (go here to help C-Monster get the LA Times to re-name their new blog, currently named the obscenely derivative Culture Monster.)
Maybe C-Monster should be renamed Los Angeles Times? Or L’osange, Les Times.