Art in America - Most Recent Features

Ahlam Shibli

By Kim Bradley — Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Ahlam Shibli's first major retrospective, "Phantom Home," featured nine series of her documentary-style photographs, dating from 2000 to 2012. For Shibli, who was born in Galilee in 1970 and lives in Haifa, the concept of home is multilayered, encompassing one's family home, one's homeland and one's body.

Youcef Korichi

By Paul B. Franklin — Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

In his latest solo exhibition, "non-lieu, non sites" (which one might translate as "dismissed cases, dismissed places"), Algerian-born French artist Youcef Korichi (b. 1974) reveled unabashedly in the esthetic possibilities of oil paint.

Christopher Cozier

By Andil Gosine — Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

In the works presented here, Cozier suggests parallels between the course of progress in Trinidad and his own artistic pursuit.

Valerie Favre

By Aoife Rosenmeyer — Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Valérie Favre's first solo exhibition at Peter Kilchmann presented an opportunity to view the artist's recently completed "Selbstmord" (Suicide) series.

Cinematic Scope

By Faye Hirsch — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

"Cinematic Scope" gathers six artists in their 30s and 40s from Germany, Austria and ex-Yugoslavia whose practices are "expanding" media in the 21st century.

Dirk Bell

By Mark Prince — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

In BQ's front window, the title of Dirk Bell's exhibition, "Schön und Gut" (Beautiful and Good), was spelled out in the panels of a shelf structure.

Ali Kazim

By Ryan Holmberg — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

It is common in writing on Lahore-based Ali Kazim to begin with his technique. "Starting with a pencil under-drawing," writes London-based critic and curator Hammad Nasar in a pamphlet from 2006, "he follows on with a step miniaturists refer to as siyah qalam (or literally black pen); going over the pencil marks with a fine brush dipped in black ink."

NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star

By Anne Doran — Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

In 1993, Bill Clinton was inaugurated as the 42nd president of the United States, the World Wide Web was less than two years old and the U.S. economy, including the art market, was still suffering the effects of the stock market crash of 1987.

Ragnar Kjartansson

By Gregory Volk — Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson's nine-screen installation The Visitors (2012) is a pop-music video in extremis, breaking every protocol for the genre.

Llyn Foulkes

By Michael Duncan — Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

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Trevor Paglen

By Aimee Walleston — Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Do endless grids of Google images accurately describe our existence? And if so, will aliens like them?

Kiran Subbaiah

By Ryan Holmberg — Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

In her 1976 essay "Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism," which looks at early works by Vito Acconci, Richard Serra, Peter Campus and others who dealt with the destabilizing effects of "the self split and doubled," Rosalind Krauss concluded that "the medium of video is narcissism."

Ryan McLaughlin

By Mark Prince — Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

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Loredana Sperini

By Olga Stefan — Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Loredana Sperini's recent show "Tra di Noi" (Between Us), at Freymond-Guth's new space in the Löwenbräu complex, continued her explorations with contrasting materials.

Simone Forti

By Danielle Sommer — Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

True to its name, Simone Forti's second solo show at The Box, "Sounding," featured around a dozen works based on the artist's renowned performance oeuvre, all with "a central element of sound." Incorporating props and recordings from past performances, video documentation, photos and drawings, as well as several live performances, the exhibition engaged viewers on multiple levels, including aural.

Mario Ybarra Jr.

By Annie Buckley — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Mario Ybarra Jr.'s emotionally layered exhibition "Double Feature" was a compilation of two projects: "Scarface Museum," a collection of memorabilia from Brian de Palma's 1983 movie, which was a favorite of his childhood friend Angel Montes Jr.; and "Universal Monsters," five painted and two sculpted selfportraits based on characters from Universal Studios' sci-fi and horror films from the1920s through the '60s.

Jed Ochmanek

By Danielle Sommer, breed st, Young Art, Los Angeles, Jed Ochmanek — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Jed Ochmanek may call his newest series of paintings "flats," but "depth" more accurately captures what was on display in "Breed St.," the artist's third solo exhibition at Young Art.

Richard Koppe

By Kyle MacMillan — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Cubism is most often associated with its inventors Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, as well as a range of other European artists who took art in radically new directions at the beginning of the 20th century. Its effects, however, reverberated for decades throughout the American scene in the work of Manierre Dawson, Max Weber and many others.

Wang Xieda

By Carol Diehl — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Shanghai-based sculptor Wang Xieda's first exhibition in the United States, "Subject Verb Object," featured 19 spindly cast-bronze abstract sculptures, tabletop-size, that clearly reflect the influence of David Smith and Giacometti.

Xavier Cha

By Megan Heuer — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Xavier Cha is a young New York-based artist who has garnered attention for works involving live performance.