This section contains art criticism and essays that I have written over the past few years.

McKee Gallery presents new work by Vija Celmins. (more…)

Stux Gallery presents Barakat.  Barakat is an Arabic word, meaning a gift or an offering.  Nine artists were invited from the Middle East and Africa to make a cultural offering.

I found the group show to be weakly curated but a few artists spoke to me.  Sara Rahbar’s photographs are compelling.  I did not need a back story or even to know that she is from Iran to make a connection.  In Love Arrived and How Red #8 we see what looks like a woman in a white wedding dress.  She is wearing a black fabric mask over her face with only her eyes and red lipstick lined mouth peering out.  Her head-dress is a an American flag draped down her back.  The flag functions as an opened burqa – revealing the awaiting bride.  (more…)

David Zwirner gallery presents Who is sleeping on my pillow, new works by Swedish partners Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordström.  Married for 24 years, they are exhibiting together for the first time with concurrent solo shows in opposite rooms of the gallery with collaborations in the Middle Gallery. (more…)

Sikkema Jenkins gallery is modestly presenting An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters, new prints from Kara Walker in the West Gallery.  There is no information available in print or online about these new etchings only a title-list at the gallery desk. (more…)

Kiki Smith’s Sojourn is on exhibit at Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art until September 12, 2010. (more…)