Photos By Gail
I keep a fairly extensive archive of photos from the past two decades spent exploring the city’s galleries. Time has a way of slipping by before I can feature something I love in what might be considered a timely manner — but there’s no rule against circling back to a standout piece that still feels worth sharing.
Case in point: these luminous, candy-colored chandeliers, which have been were replaced by a different lighting installation since I first spotted them two summers ago at Petzel Gallery on West 25th Street. They’ve lingered in my memory ever since — impossible to forget and far too striking to leave unseen. Now feels like the right moment to finally give them their due: glowing sculptures that read like a constellation, hovering somewhere between chandelier, artwork, and dream.
Continue reading Eye On Design: Floating Color – Jorge Pardo’s Lightworks at Petzel Gallery →
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These Puppets (2009) are representations of artists and curators, including the artists who made them — Rirkrit Tiravenija (far left) and Philippe Pareno (third from left). The series also features Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Carsten Holler, and Jorge Pardo, artists who are strongly associated with the “relational aesthetics” movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s, which sought to encourage interaction with and among viewers.
Continue reading Puppets By Philippe Pareno and Rirkrit Tiravenija →
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The above photo does not depict the interior of a Lighting store on the Bowery. Rather, these light fixtures are part of the two-gallery group show, Junkies’ Promises, now on exhibit at both Paul Kasmin Gallery spaces on 10th Avenue, and also 27th Street. Continue reading Junkies’ Promises at Paul Kasmin Gallery →
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