January/February 2011

Mia Feuer

Washington, DC, and Arlington, Virginia Transformer Gallery andArlington Arts Center Two recent installations in the Washington area, Suspended Landscape at the Transformer Gallery and Evacuation Route with Rubies at the Arlington Arts Center, showcased Mia Feuer’s bold, chaotic work.

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Elke Soloman

New York ALR. Gallery A Tavola is a command and a call to arms, summoning us to the table and the concomitant onslaught of memory—personal, emotional, social, communal, graphic, and visceral— prompted by food. As it calls us to the table, it also warns us of the abundance awaiting to seduce us to excess, Fittingly,

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Jeremy Dean

New York {CTS} creative thriftshop Jeremy Dean’s CEO Stagecoach (2010), which presents a satirical proposition about the future of the automobile and the planet, is part of “Back to the Futurama,” a project that focuses on the rise and fall of the automobile industry as a symbol of the vulnerability wrought by turbo-capitalism.

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Ginger Wolfe-Suarez

San Francisco Silverman Gallery It is tempting to read Ginger Wolfe-Suarez’s Theory of a family as a type of formal rebus. Inside the space of the installation, two large black volumes balanced precariously on a ledge above the entrance wall, set directly over twin plywood boxes emoting a soft pink light.

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Gyun Hur

Atlanta Gyun Hur Get This! Gallery Gyun Hur’s installation, Repose, constructed a delicate visual space engaging the fragility of memory, rupture of loss, and violence that can accompany mourning. Across the floor, and on a transparent acrylic shelf lining two walls of the space, Hur carefully arranged colorful stripes of finely shredded silk cemetery flowers

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Gino De Domincis

Rome MAXXI MAXXI, Italy’s National Museum of XXI Century Arts, opened last spring. Despite the name, the collection is dominated thus far by art from the second half of the 20th century, though the museum has commissioned several new works, including Maurizio Mochetti’s site-specific Rette di luce nell’iperspazio curvilineo (Light lines through curvilinear hyper-space).

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