by shantytowndesign | Jun 6, 2016 | Writing
Kim Abeles at Art Resources Transfer, Inc – Brief Article Art in America, April, 2002 by Joe Lewis Infrequently seen on the East Coast, Kim Abeles is well known and respected on the West for her political and ethnographic art work. This midcareer survey of 57...
by shantytowndesign | Jun 6, 2016 | Writing
Joseph Nechvatal at Universal Concepts Unlimited – New York – “vOluptuary: an algorithmic hermaphomology” Art in America, March, 2003 by Joe Lewis In the artist/theorist tradition of Robert Smithson, Joseph Nechvatal, a pioneer in the field of...
by shantytowndesign | Jun 6, 2016 | Writing
PREFACE I am deeply indebted to William Dukes Lewis elegant and comprehensive analysis of the Black Marching Band tradition, “Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum: Performance Traditions of Historically Black College and University Marching Bands,” especially its...
by shantytowndesign | Jun 5, 2016 | Writing
Dawn Dedeaux “Soul Shadows: Urban Warrior Myths” An installation By Joe Lewis Artspace, March/April 1993 The trouble with a lot of politically motivated art is a failure of nerve. Artists who produce work that they know is not favored by our...
by shantytowndesign | Jun 5, 2016 | Writing
Read it a little more clearly: THOSE AFRICANS LOOK LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS: An Interview with Robert Colescott By Joe Lewis The humor is the bait. It is the price you pay to get in. Robert Colescott’s paintings deal with popular ballads that have been thrown askew by...
