Author Archives: John D'Agostino
Made in the Machine: Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff’s photographs have lost their innocence. His work is a repeated exercise in a technology mediated vision, where the promise of machine made images is troubling, alluring & unavoidable.
Made in the Machine: Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff’s photographs have lost their innocence. His work is a repeated exercise in a technology mediated vision, where the promise of machine made images is troubling, alluring & unavoidable.
A Dirty Word: Artworld Prestige
Prestige is the ultimate dirty word in the artworld, because it teases out the subtle distinctions between success & significance. The almost total failure of contemporary art criticism to talk about prestige is an oversight with profound implications – until now.
A Dirty Word: Artworld Prestige
Prestige is the ultimate dirty word in the artworld, because it teases out the subtle distinctions between success & significance. The almost total failure of contemporary art criticism to talk about prestige is an oversight with profound implications – until now.
Shadow & The Light: Barbara Kasten
The medium of Photography has yet to have its Brown vs. Board of Education moment, happy to be separate but equal. What’s refreshing about the photographs of Barbara Kasten is her cultivation of how it can be integrated with other disciplines, such as painting, architecture, or sculptural concerns.
Shadow & The Light: Barbara Kasten
The medium of Photography has yet to have its Brown vs. Board of Education moment, happy to be separate but equal. What’s refreshing about the photographs of Barbara Kasten is her cultivation of how it can be integrated with other disciplines, such as painting, architecture, or sculptural concerns.
The Disordered Eye: Bill Armstrong
Edgar Degas fought a creeping blindness for much of his life, but the effects of his blurred vision helped to make his masterworks. Bill Armstrong uses photography in a similar vein, as a medium of blindness, where what we cannot quite make-out may be the whole point.
The Disordered Eye: Bill Armstrong
Edgar Degas fought a creeping blindness for much of his life, but the effects of his blurred vision helped to make his masterworks. Bill Armstrong uses photography in a similar vein, as a medium of blindness, where what we cannot quite make-out may be the whole point.
R.I.P. Postmodernism – The New ‘Ism
Over the past 20 years, there’s been an ongoing pitched battle to coin the latest contemporary art movement, after the ‘end’ of Postmodernism. Will Gompertz’s and Martha Buskirk’s latest books may have just coined the new ‘Ism to replace Postmodernism. It’s called Entrepreneurialism, and it may be here to stay.
R.I.P. Postmodernism – The New ‘Ism
Over the past 20 years, there’s been an ongoing pitched battle to coin the latest contemporary art movement, after the ‘end’ of Postmodernism. Will Gompertz’s and Martha Buskirk’s latest books may have just coined the new ‘Ism to replace Postmodernism. It’s called Entrepreneurialism, and it may be here to stay.
The Contemporaries
A selection of 40 of today’s most innovative contemporary artists, from emerging luminaries such as Matthew Brandt and Jordan Eagles, to masters such as Susan Derges and Barbara Kasten.
The Contemporaries
A selection of 40 of today’s most innovative contemporary artists, from emerging luminaries such as Matthew Brandt and Jordan Eagles, to masters such as Susan Derges and Barbara Kasten.
Wade Guyton: Painting* without Paint
In today’s postmedium age, perhaps the most fascinating ‘paintings’ are being made by artists who don’t even use paint at all. Case in point is artist Wade Guyton, who utilizes the accidents and mishaps of an Epson printer in series of mis-registrations of chance. It may be time to re-frame just what painting means in the 21st century.
Wade Guyton: Painting* without Paint
In today’s postmedium age, perhaps the most fascinating ‘paintings’ are being made by artists who don’t even use paint at all. Case in point is artist Wade Guyton, who utilizes the accidents and mishaps of an Epson printer in series of mis-registrations of chance. It may be time to re-frame just what painting means in the 21st century.
Jessica Eaton: Spectral Geometries
Jessica Eaton’s work is a form of visualisation, rendering up colors, forms and effects unconnected to solid objects. It is full of surprise.
Jessica Eaton: Spectral Geometries
Jessica Eaton’s work is a form of visualisation, rendering up colors, forms and effects unconnected to solid objects. It is full of surprise.
William Blake: The Representation of Vision
Poet, painter, engraver and prophet, William Blake is arguably the greatest artist Britain ever produced, whose singular talents were neglected for almost a century after his death. For Blake, a man’s vision was the one and only great fact about him. Poetry, art and religion were not separate activities, but all extensions of man’s greatest quality: his imagination.
William Blake: The Representation of Vision
Poet, painter, engraver and prophet, William Blake is arguably the greatest artist Britain ever produced, whose singular talents were neglected for almost a century after his death. For Blake, a man’s vision was the one and only great fact about him. Poetry, art and religion were not separate activities, but all extensions of man’s greatest quality: his imagination.
The Rising of Invus
The ghosts of pigments past are a lurid expose of suffering, murder and tragedy. Today, in a world full of plentiful artificial dyes, it is harder to truly appreciate the mysterious business that once was the world of color. But, back in the day, color was full of great secrets, prohibitions and tragic histories.
The Rising of Invus
The ghosts of pigments past are a lurid expose of suffering, murder and tragedy. Today, in a world full of plentiful artificial dyes, it is harder to truly appreciate the mysterious business that once was the world of color. But, back in the day, color was full of great secrets, prohibitions and tragic histories.
