Max Cole: Endless Journey
My response at the second viewing, post opening night, of this work. Please do not touch, mind Returned, not re-enacted. Yesterday, a dead end in the last room of paintings All made In the current year. Hand drawn lines like a penmanship exercise Obviously, communication from an isolated working human The dead end room flocked…
Helen Pashgian: Presences
SITE Santa FE – January 2022 In 2021, Helen Pashgian made some luminous sculptures that fill a room with a specifically colored light. In order to keep you in the room, she has set the room lights on a dimmer that goes from its brightest to very low lighting in a five minute cycle. These…
Agnes Pelton : Desert Transcendentalist
— OCTOBER 5, 2019 – JANUARY 5, 2020, at the New Mexico Museum of Art — We start our conversation, me and Agnes Pelton, with a joke: Room Decoration in Purple and Gray from 1917. If Pelton was with Duchamp at the 1917 show put on by the Society of Independent American Artists she might…
Much Wider than a Line
SITE SANTA FE – July 16, 2016 – Jan. 8, 2017 – SITEline 2016. The boundary of a place, generations of a people, time – all these are much wider than, say, a pencil line. But borders, family trees and time are often drawn with single lines. The 2016 biennial exhibition at SITE Santa Fe,…