By ALAN REID Josh Faught is sculptor who works in a variety of sculptural media, focusing primarily on how textiles interact with cultural metaphors. While the Light Lasts, his current show, is on view at Lisa Cooley Fine Art, in New York.…
By ALAN REID Barb Choit at Rachel Uffner Barb Choit has recently documented the structure and effects of a variety of lamps (and wattage) on a photographic negative; she’s also imaged and archived a collection of broken pottery. Now, in…
By ALAN REID Rebecca Warren at Matthew Marks There’s something afoot in Rebecca Warren’s current show, a dozen sculptures collected under the potentially snarky title, Feelings. With élan, Warren negotiates an avalanche of references, disrupting the history of art and…
RACHEL PERRY WELTY @ YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY, NYC By Alan Reid Rachel Perry Welty’s one-person exhibition at Yancey Richardson leaves one conflicted. The show is polite, even seemingly sweet, and while this should perhaps be read as a pejorative, politeness can…
GUY DE COINTET @ GREENE NAFTALI GALLERY, NYC By Alan Reid To confess, Guy de Cointet is an artist whose work I’ve unabashedly loved since first viewing. His is an easy-breezy theatrical stance, an art so seemingly light one is unlikely…
R.H. QUAYTMAN: CHAPTER 12 : IAMB AT MIGUEL ABREU GALLERY By Alan Reid The sly objects in R. H. Quaytman’s demanding show at Miguel Abreu Gallery (Op art images screen-printed on plywood, with few exceptions) provoke retinal and philosophic feedback. The…