Art Forum

"Vessels"
THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 148 West 37th Street, 13th Floor May 7–July 3

Perhaps the most extreme cycle of transformation occurs in the juxtaposition of Brie Ruais’s two works. Her video, Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner (Big Push in a New Space). March 26, 2012. 10:15 PM–10:58 PM, 2012, shows the artist slamming her body into hundreds of pounds of clay as she slowly pushes it up the crease of a wall. An earlier product of this process, Unfolding (Liquid Color), 2011, is hung nearby—a starburst of the artist’s body weight in clay, spread out, flecked with blue, yellow, and green, and cut into sections hung infinitely close together. One might imagine the universe beginning, and maybe ending, in such a way.

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The New York Times

‘Vessels’
June 20, 2013

Nothing in “Vessels,” at the Horticultural Society of New York’s quiet little gallery in the garment district, looks as if it could actually hold a plant. That’s a compliment, as far as the show’s five ceramics artists are concerned; they make sculptures, not mere receptacles.

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Medium_mrjk02_cecil_02_email Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler,SEVEN (Cecil), 2012, mixed media with three channel video,

Labour and Wait
July 2- September 22, 2013

This exhibition features the work of artists who bring 21st-century urgency to 19th-century principles of virtue through work and craftsmanship. Inspired in part by developments that stem back as far as the Industrial Revolution, the presentation examines contemporary culture’s obsession with authenticity, the hand-crafted, and the politics of manufacturing and labor. Works in the exhibition date from the late 1980s to the present, a period in which artists turned from industrial fabrication and a seamless aesthetic to hand-made or “do-it-yourself” sensibilities.

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New York Magazine

The Approval Matrix
Week of June 24, 2013

Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.

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