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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Miami Project Spaces

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Locust Projects: Jason Hedges’ Aesthetic Experience #13 (Lamb) and Clifton Childree’s installation in progress. Despite being well advanced into a month that would ordinarily be characterized by cultural desolation, there were some openings of note. Once again, the beauty is that the attention was doted not on the gallery shows, but rather the project spaces. [...]

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Nautical artist Marie Lorenz Moores in Miami

Friday, July 11, 2008

Marie Lorenz with the Henry Hudson Bridge in the background, in one of the boats she makes herself. “The last bit of Earth unclaimed by any nation-state was eaten up in 1899. Ours is the first century without terra incognita, without a frontier…We are looking for spaces (geographic, social, cultural, imaginary) with potential to flower [...]

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2008 Whitney Biennial artist Bert Rodriguez in Le Salon Des Beaux-Bains

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

2008 Whitney Installation A native to Miami, Bert Rodriguez is one of the few artists who have successfully penetrated the international art market. Pointedly subverting the concept of the artist, Rodriguez’s conceptual practice relies heavily on process and performance. Operating largely outside traditional commercial art practices, and with shrewd yet playful wit, Rodriguez’s multifarious practice [...]

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Jason Hedges: Hog Roast

Monday, July 7, 2008

Hog roast dry run for “Lamb” (2008) Last night the quiet patience of a privileged few was rewarded by Jason Hedges, a Miami based artist whose work centers primarily around food. In preparation for his exhibition at Locust Projects this coming Saturday, Hedges, much to the satisfaction of those who lasted through the rains, de-bugged [...]

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Writing about Performance Art Part 2: The broom cupboard by Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith

Saturday, July 5, 2008

The broom cupboard by Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith, Berlin Jerxheim 2008. When I was a child, a dreaming child midst the objects of my world, my parents often took off to go to parties. They never left me alone at home. They never asked a baby-sitter to look after me. They took me along, and between [...]

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Libidinous Lines: New York-based artist Michael Bilsborough

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Heart of Glass, 2007, ink on paper, 38″ x 50,” Excerpt of an interview by Thomas Hollingworth for MAP Magazine‘s latest issue. I have been away from my home country for sometime now but when I look at Michael Bilsborough’s depictions of savage debauchery and hedonistic excess my wistfulness vanishes, replaced by a longing of [...]

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