AL TAYLOR @ ELIZABETH LEACH GALLERY
By MICAH J. MALONE In most biographical accounts of the late Al Taylor his identification and origin as a painter, as opposed to a sculptor, is almost always noted. Also,…
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Micah J. Malone has been with Big RED & Shiny since the beginning, and is an executive editor.
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
By MICAH J. MALONE Legal contracts, artists relationships with science, Boston’s slow march into “the Modern” era, as well as “the capitalist, linear escapism… of the Western Psyche” are just…
PERFORMANCE + STUDIO + PRACTICE
By MICAH J. MALONE Two recently opened shows in Portland, Oregon have positioned traditional and craft skills as a series of political acts: gestures that challenge convention and seek to…
MARKETWATCH
By MICAH J. MALONE For the past few columns I have focused on artists who began their careers – and built reputations – with work marked by a ruthless economy…
ANNA FIDLER @ DISJECTA
By MICAH J. MALONE Sports and art rarely coincide. Only a handful of contemporary artists come to mind that have utilized sports and athletes as a primary subject. Paul Pfeiffer’s…
MARKETWATCH
By MICAH J. MALONE I’ve hesitated to comment on the following story, if only because it is still being written. However, the fascinating conundrum that faces Chris Burden and Gagosian…
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By MICAH J. MALONE What does it mean to sell something that does not have a definitive form? In my exploration of this question, I will focus on the generation…
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By MICAH J. MALONE The fantastic book “Old Masters and Young Geniuses” does something almost unheard of: Author David Galenson formulates the two distinct archetypes of modern art through economic…
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By MICAH J. MALONE Marcel Duchamp was always part of the market. Indeed, one can argue (and many have before me) that nearly all of Duchamp’s gestures were linked in…
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MARKETWATCH By Micah J. Malone Developing surprising ways to extract value from existing products is nothing new. In many ways it defines modern innovation. If one looks at the internet, arguably…
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MARKETWATCH By Micah J. Malone As exciting as this is, imagine how exciting the collapse is going to be! The above quote turned out to be a bit of a prelude.…
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MARKETWATCH By Micah J. Malone Within the Blogosphere of art, I cannot count the number of times in the last week I’ve read some version of the phrase “the tanking of…
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MARKETWATCH By Micah J. Malone How are artists affected by a down economy? With artists being both inside and outside of the general market, it is often difficult to gauge the…
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MARKETWATCH By Micah J. Malone Marketwatch was created as a means to speculate on what is good economic value in art. From time to time I will write upon great market…
INTERVIEW WITH EMILY ISENBERG
INTERVIEW WITH EMILY ISENBERG By Micah J. Malone I got to know Emily Isenberg in our brief but memorable crossover in Portland, OR. I had just moved to town and a…
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
By MICAH J. MALONE Print this article With several prominent commercial galleries shutting their doors only a year removed from two of the best non-profit spaces closing, it seems as…
ANISSA MACK @ SMALL A PROJECTS
By MICAH J. MALONE Anissa Mack’s recent exhibition at Small a Projects does something extraordinary: she participates in a “local” community’s practice without irony. Considering her subject matter is local…
AVANTIKA BAWA @ PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
By MICAH J. MALONE The sparse and poetic work of Avantika Bawa seems at once both subtle and authoritative. “Sit/Stack”, the title of her exhibition at Portland State University’s Autzen…
JESSIE ROSE VALA @ MOTEL
By MICAH J. MALONE Jessie Rose Vala’s exhibition “The Tortuous Veil” is a new series of work based on four enigmatic mythical archetypes: The Werewolf, Vampire, Shape Shifter, and Zombie.…
CAMOUFLAGE @ PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, PORTLAND, OR
By MICAH J. MALONE Camouflage is a modest exhibition dealing with artist’s use of pattern to construct paintings. The title of the exhibitions takes its name from Andy Warhol’s giant…