Tania David October 2015 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] A Few Of The Things One Could Or Did Contemplate at the Venice Biennale in 2015 [spacer height=”20px”] experience and reflection on human existence poetically expressed finity of natural existence infinity of abstract thought an archetypal tool transformation of material transience… Continue reading One Could Or Did Contemplate
Author: Randee Silv
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Rethreadings
Randee Silv December 2014 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] That reaction the other night. To align not dispute. I could’ve ignored yet another abstract stroke and returned to the street. But while there, somehow, I didn’t mind getting caught in their grip. They hit hard. I went up to the gallery’s second floor, then back down.… Continue reading Rethreadings
Answerless
(MX City)
Randee Silv October 2014 [spacer height=”40px”] I sat behind her and did everything she did. She kneeled. I kneeled. She stood. I stood. She clasped her hands together, closed her eyes and bent her head slightly down. I did the same. She was saying something, not as a whisper, but for someone to hear. She… Continue reading Answerless
(MX City)
Variations on Thirst
Randee Silv June 2014 A few of us stood there about to intervene.[spacer height=”20px”] They were both harassing him as if he were prey. “Before you know what’s going on you better get your facts straight.” He unwrapped a green piece of stick gum and started chewing fiercely. The elderly, startled, awaited quietly in the… Continue reading Variations on Thirst
Through Most of It
Randee Silv May 2014 [spacer height=”20px”] May 8 – May 11[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] She signaled me to step back from the kicking motorized colored tights. 8 legs mounted on the wall. I might interfere with its demonstration of 40, 320 sequences. I preferred seeing those hues on the ski masks worn in the video where… Continue reading Through Most of It
Traces
Randee Silv April 2014 [spacer height=”20px”] Among the rolling Alentejo hills of cork oaks, vineyards, olive trees and sheep grazing, a small agricultural city in Portugal, Montemor-o-Novo, with a population of under 20,000, has this surprisingly active arts community with galleries, performance venues, alternative spaces and international projects. The arts have received continuous support and… Continue reading Traces
104 Delancey
Randee Silv April 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”]i had to see what he meant by cat-food-colored modernism. [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”100px”] [spacer height=”100px”] [spacer height=”100px”] [spacer height=”100px”] [spacer height=”100px”] [spacer height=”100px”] [spacer height=”100px”] [spacer height=”100px”] [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] April 3 – May 23, 2014 photos: Arteidolia [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”]
Three Correlations
WB 2014
Otomo – Hughes – Silv March 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Yuko Otomo A definition of “what art is” keeps changing, expanding its limit. It has become more and more inclusive, open and diverse over the years. Here, in the 2014 Biennial, we see hybrids of art and culture in various forms and manifestations. As… Continue reading Three Correlations
WB 2014
Three Correlations
Jess & Duncan
Otomo – Silv – Hughes February 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”]An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square, New York January 14 – March 29, 20014[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Yuko Otomo[spacer height=”20px”] When Academia takes on the subject of something that developed non-intentionally, non-systematically, organically, such as the… Continue reading Three Correlations
Jess & Duncan
Migration of the Dot: Red
Randee Silv February 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Round. Red. 40,800 years old. Fifty samples tested from eleven caves in Spain. One in the Panel of Hands in Cueva de El Castillo is now considered Europe’s oldest dated art, 4000 years before the black charcoal rhinoceros drawings in Chauvet, France. Dr. Alistair Pike from the University… Continue reading Migration of the Dot: Red
Pediments: Ridgewood
Randee Silv February 2014 [spacer height=”20px”] “Start-up galleries are opening; middle-tier galleries are holding their own, or doing better than that. Artist-intensive neighborhoods like Bushwick and Ridgewood are still affordable, companionable and fun,” New York Times art critic Holland Cotter recently wrote. I had to laugh. The Clintons spotted at Roberta’s. Bushwick featured in HBO’s… Continue reading Pediments: Ridgewood
Recalling Poets
[spacer height=”60px”] R e c a l l i n g [spacer height=”40px”] Tomas Tranströmer[spacer height=”20px”] The Couple They switch off the light and its white shade glimmers for a moment before dissolving like a tablet in a glass of darkness. Then up. The hotel walls rise into the black sky. The movements of love have… Continue reading Recalling Poets
Interrupting Siqueiros: San Miguel & LA
Randee Silv December 2013[spacer height=”20px”] Recessed spotlights lined the floor replacing the once hanging single bulb. All details could now be witnessed. A few loosely sketched black figures and motifs juxtaposed with bold, colored geometrical shapes intertwined with a multiangular web of lines that crisscrossed the stone walls, reaching onto the arched ceiling where a… Continue reading Interrupting Siqueiros: San Miguel & LA
Magnifying Fakes
Randee Silv December 2013 [spacer height=”20px”] Situation #1: Kligman’s Red, Black & Silver Situation #2: 123 Frida Kahlo Replicas Situation #3: Qian/Diaz/Rosales/Knoedler [spacer height=”20px”] A woman next to me did portraits of owners’ dogs while they waited on the West Broadway block where I was selling with a few other off the grid painters in… Continue reading Magnifying Fakes
Magnifying Fakes
Randee Silv December 2013 [spacer height=”20px”] Situation #1: Kligman’s Red, Black & Silver Situation #2: 123 Frida Kahlo Replicas Situation #3: Qian/Diaz/Rosales/Knoedler [spacer height=”20px”] We arrived at 5:30 am at the corner of Calle Londres & Allende, a few blocks away from our friend’s house. He had asked us to wait before we woke him… Continue reading Magnifying Fakes
Magnifying Fakes
Randee Silv December 2013 [spacer height=”20px”] Situation#1: Kligman’s Red, Black & Silver Situation #2: 123 Frida Kahlo Replicas Situation #3: Qian/Diaz/Rosales/Knoedler [spacer height=”20px”] “Who are the best artists, who should I know, in what order—one, two, and three?” Ruth Kligman asked Audrey Flack. “Jackson Pollock, Bill de Kooning, and Franz Kline.” Flack drew her a… Continue reading Magnifying Fakes