Ambiguous Exodus (All Photos By Gail)
Joshua Liner Gallery is currently hosting Amalgamation, an exhibition of new work from Kansas-based artist Kris Kuksi. This is Kuksi’s fifth solo show with Liner and it includes seven works in the artist’s signature medium of mixed media assemblage.
For his mixed media assemblage, Koh-i-Noor (2005) Hew Locke (Scottish, born 1959) arranged thousands of cheap plastic toys and trinkets — disposable products of the new global economy — into one edition of a series of portraits of Queen Elizabeth II (entitled the House of Windsor Series), one of which was among the most extraordinary works in the Museum’s exhibition, Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art (2007). Locke, born in Scotland but raised in Guyana, created these works in response to ethnic tensions within contemporary British society, often growing out of Great Britain’s colonial history, with that history now brought home to Britain. Continue reading Hew Locke, Koh-i-Noor, Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II To make Cost of Living (2014) and other works in this series, Josh Kline interviewed workers – janitorial staff and package delivers – and then made casts of their body parts that they used to complete their daily tasks. In this case, he spoke with the housekeeper named Aleyda, who worked at the Rivington Hotel. Continue reading Cost of Living (Aleyda) By Josh Kline Hauser & Wirth’s cavernous space at 511 West 18th Street is currently hosting a selection of works from the collection of German art dealer Reinhard Onnasch. A celebration of Onnasch’s longstanding passion for art and collecting, Re-View: Onnasch Collection is curated by Paul Schimmel, celebrated post-war scholar and Partner of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel. Joshua Liner Gallery is currently hosting the must-see exhibit, Revival, featuring mixed-media assemblage sculptures by Kansas-based artist Kris Kuksi. This is Kuksi’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery with works ranging medium-in-size to some over five feet-tall and five feet-wide. The works were definitely on a much smaller scale than those included in a previous exhibit of his work, Triumph, which we saw in March of 2012. Continuing in Kuksi’s highly recognizable assemblage style, each sculpture contains worlds within worlds within worlds, every inch of the piece telling layered stories rich with occult meaning.
Hew Locke, Koh-i-Noor, Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II
Photo By GailCost of Living (Aleyda) By Josh Kline
All Photos By GailHauser & Wirth Presents Selections from the Reinhard Onnasch Collection
Claes Oldenberg Model for a Mahogany Plug, Scale B. 1969 (All Photos By Gail)
Continue reading Hauser & Wirth Presents Selections from the Reinhard Onnasch Collection Kris Kuksi’s Revival at Joshua Liner Gallery
All Photos By Gail
Continue reading Kris Kuksi’s Revival at Joshua Liner Gallery