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Space for Being: a Conversation with Alannah Farrell
When I drop by Alannah Farrell’s studio space, in the upper reaches of 4 World Trade Center, after spending 45 minutes getting lost in the financial district, I have to show a government issued ID to the security guard downstairs. In a lot of ways the space, donated for artists to use by Silverstein Properties…
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Between the Lines at Lyles and King
The glazed stoneware rosettes forming the frame surrounding Stephanie Temma Hier’s painting Her Psychology Today resemble frosting more than anything else. They have the same wooden, stiff, painted-on presence that a thick sugary can of Pillsbury would. The unusual frame would stand out in most white-walled Soho gallery spaces, but in the front room of…
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“Women’s Work” and Why Labels Matter
OLEK, Frances Goodman and Ruby Neri In an former ironworks in Avesta Sweden, visitors to Verket walked over and inside of a partially decayed two room structure completely covered in crocheted flowers, glittering rhinestones, and references to feminine allure spelled out in infinite intricate stitches—a piece by the artist known as OLEK. In New York…
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The Arches
Frankie Rice’s The Arches is at once a dirge and a love song, in a way that a discussion of sex and death can only be in 2019. Including works created at various points over the last twelve years, Rice invites the viewer to peer through a series of figurative windows, sharing brief glimpses of…
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Gesticulation
Published in conjunction with the opening of Gesticulation at LaMontagne Gallery Boston, Oct. 2018 In Gesticulation, the sculptural work of Frankie Rice stands side by side with a series of abstract paintings by Gio Black Peter as a monumental statement against the limiting conception of art as consisting merely of objects on display. Both artists’…