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Review: Total Styrene Benefit at Participant Inc.

By On August 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Total Styrene Benefit
Participant Inc.
By Quinn Dukes

Styrofoam and summer heat are typically not linked points of personal interest but The Total Styrene Benefit invitation shifted my bias with promise of performance, a recycling laboratory and homemade lemonade. In 2009, New York-based artist, Lizzie Scott, pioneered the Styrene Fantastic (now referred to [...]

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Review: Bushwick Open Studios: Film Festival

By On July 7, 2011 · 1 Comment

Bushwick Open Studios: Film Festival
Curated by Microscope Gallery
By Quinn Dukes

The summer has finally crept upon us bringing along with it the delights of outdoor festivals. Artists, art enthusiasts and neighborhood locals infiltrated street corners during Brooklyn’s first neighborhood-focused event of June, Bushwick Open Studios. Over the course of three days, [...]

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Ellen Gallagher: Greasy at Gagosian

By On February 16, 2011 · 2 Comments

Ellen Gallagher: Greasy at Gagosian

555 West 24th Street

By Matthew Farina

Revealing her most personal and least socially assertive work to date, Ellen Gallagher’s large mid-career show Greasy is more seductive than political.  The artist’s varied interests including natural history, minimalist abstraction, the Harlem Renaissance, and marine life come together with [...]

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Ellen Gallagher: Greasy at Gagosian

By On February 16, 2011 · 1 Comment


Ellen Gallagher: Greasy at Gagosian
555 West 24th Street

By Matthew Farina

Revealing her most personal and least socially assertive work to date, Ellen Gallagher’s large mid-career show Greasy is more seductive than political.  The artist’s varied interests including natural history, minimalist abstraction, the Harlem Renaissance, and marine life come [...]

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Review: ‘Drawing Closer to Nature’ at the Lutheran Church of the Messiah

By On November 17, 2010 · 1 Comment

Drawing Closer to Nature at the Lutheran Church of the Messiah
By Matthew Farina

Abstract painting influenced by nature is, for the most part, well-explored territory. The recent exhibition Drawing Closer to Nature presented the work of three emerging painters, Lori Hayes, Susan Ross and Melissa Staiger all of whom have escaped the tired [...]

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