Category: Olivia Whittick

Cindy Ji Hye Kim

Death abounds in the work of Cindy Ji Hye Kim. The paintings evoke the funerary, mourning, and the physical death of the body, while the artist describes her process as something of a psychological journey towards ego death.

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Frank Dorrey

Printed in Issue 21 Frank Dorrey’s world is one of colour and clash, an overly-saturated realm of sunburnt imagery evocative of that very 90s cocktail of low-quality and high-contrast, one part Hype Williams-directed “Gimme Some More” and one part children’s program animation. Frank makes his works using…

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Interview with Andrew Callaghan

Andrew Callaghan is drawn to annoying people like a moth to a flame. But partly maybe because he isn’t as immediately dismissive as the rest of us. He practices what he calls “radical listening” in his interviews, which is quite radical considering his subjects include Chet Hanks, the QAnon Shaman, attendees of the Hollywood antivax rally, a pickup artist bootcamp in Las Vegas, and numerous QAnon, Flat Earth, Conscious Life, and Bigfoot hunting conferences, to name only a few.

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Thomas Barger’s Furniture in Costume

If a chair can be camp, Thomas Barger’s chairs are camp. Despite being spotted in glamorous locations like the NYC Glossier flagship or the homes of in-the- know art collectors, Barger’s process is a humble one: he finds recycled paper and blends it into a pulp, then applies it to ordinary chairs to convert them into something new and extraordinary. His is furniture in costume, utility transformed, like chairs playing house.

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Will Sheldon Trouble After Dark

A cob-webbed clearing in a dark forest hosts shimmering pink daemons. The work presented in Will Sheldon’s solo show, “Trouble After Dark,” digitally on-view at Team Gallery until May 30th, is like The Nightmare Before Springtime, a world glittering in its own dew as death coagulates into life.

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Sara Cwynar’s Marilyn

Marilyn Monroe’s body, a reclining nude in a classical painting, a model from an online shopping site—Sara Cwynar is known for reassembling objects of desire. Symbols of beauty are presented here, in the artist’s solo show, Marilyn, just as they are in advertising, stressing an important through-line in the two worlds and in the affects they produce. Cwynar’s project is in surveying the object-life of visual matter, pulling focus on the bizarre ephemera of commercial goods, and in doing so offering a feeling of desire that leads not to a check-out, but only back to itself.

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Susan Cianciolo’s Spirit Guides

Susan Cianciolo has been looking inside herself, searching for the joy and humanity in the quotidian, long before a time when we were all at home, driven by stress and confusion to get crafty and spiritual. And the fruits of her work are collected here, in her decade-spanning survey, “Spirit Guides: Paintings 1990 – 2020,” at Bridget Donahue. With works that are experienced like diary entries or scrapbook pages, corkboard collections of memories and moments, Cianciolo offers sketches of everyday divinity, of small joys and moments of peaceful self-exploration. 

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Chelsea Culprit’s Nocturnal Chimeras

Published in Issue 19 Elastic Chimeras Unbound and Regenerating, 2019, Lulu Gallery Chelsea Culprit’s work is dedicated to the motion of women, in particular the motion of work, and how labour transforms the body. Her paintings explore the female nude as it becomes classed and…

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