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Tuesday, June 21,2011
Art Features

Out of Site

It's complicated with Suzanne Bocanegra

Rani Molla
Suzanne Bocanegra’s I Write the Songs is extremely elaborate, highly varied and conceptually demanding—and that’s just what you get from looking at it
Wednesday, June 15,2011
Art Features

Underline

Seth Anderson puts himself on the map

Rani Molla
Seth Anderson knows that maps are about more than directions. He showcases them as objects of beauty and mediates them with his own subjectivity. In a series of nine pieces called Mapping, Anderson creates maps that from a distance look to have been made by computer. It’s where Anderson’s draftsman-like touch wavers that his human hand appears—and the works are much better for it
Wednesday, June 8,2011
Art Features

Storied Past

Colette Campbell-Jones narrates the unknown

Rani Molla
Due to Colette Campbell-Jones’ distance from the subject matter she covers, many degrees of separation populate her photography exhibition Stories from Underground.
Tuesday, May 31,2011
Art Features

Sign Language

Alter-Native Signs gives alternative directions

Rani Molla
John Randall Nelson further deconstructs the relationship between the signifier and the signified using a literal interpretation of signs—notably the ones found on street corners. In Alter-Native Signs: New Paintings and Sculptures, Nelson posits street signs in new contexts—bisecting them, incorporating them into paintings and conglomerating them into sculptures.
Wednesday, May 25,2011
Art Features

Picture This

Shared Intelligence captivatingly proves a forgone point

Rani Molla
Video didn’t kill the radio star, nor did the photograph kill the painter.
Wednesday, May 18,2011
Art Features

Pretty Big

Big ideas thrive on Big Paper

Rani Molla
 Big Paper is a little generous. Most of the works on paper aren’t that big (sorry, The Due Return [visual arts, May 11: “Full Sail”] skewed my sense of scale) or are made of several smaller sheets of paper. Often, it’s the subject matter in the six-person exhibition at 333 Montezuma Annex that’s most sizable, confiscating theoretical if not physical space.
Tuesday, May 10,2011
Art Features

Full Sail

Meow Wolf runs a tight—and fully loaded—ship

Rani Molla
It’s noonish on a Friday in late April, and a handful of Meow Wolfers are toiling in relative darkness to the bright day unwinding outside the Muñoz-Waxman Gallery. Inside the Center for Contemporary Arts’ cavernous exhibition space, a large digital clock blares a countdown in searing red numbers: There’s less than a month left till The Due Return sets sail, so to speak.
Wednesday, May 4,2011
Art Features

Inconspicuous Consumption

Full personally masticates our culture’s obsession with food

Rani Molla
I’m tired of skinny women eating—the cultural obsession with it, at least. While svelte starlets and even revered (thin) role models (I’m looking at you, Liz Lemon) deride their diets and depreciate themselves, food prices are doubling for the world’s poorest 2 billion, edging them toward starvation.
Wednesday, April 27,2011
Art Features

On the Map

Ephemeral Mapping leaves the direction up to the viewer.

Rani Molla
Canyon Road needs no introduction, pomp or circumstance. (Try driving down it any warm Friday when a number of its galleries hold openings, and its renown and fanfare are evident.) But a little community never hurt.
Wednesday, April 20,2011
Art Features

Out in the Open

HIDE: Skin as Material and Metaphor finds itself burdened

Rani Molla
Sure, skin is a metaphor. It represents, at opposite ends, oppression and privilege. But it’s also a metaphor that’s written all over your face. In HIDE: Skin as Material and Metaphor, eight artists explore skin to varying results.
 
 
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