by shantytowndesign | Jun 6, 2016 | Writing
Rifka Milder at Merge Art in America, May, 2008 by Joe Lewis Rifka Milder is an oil painter’s painter. Her first major solo exhibition, this show featured abstractions of New York City’s green spaces and architecture as seen reflected in urban bodies of...
by shantytowndesign | Jun 6, 2016 | Writing
Kim MacConnel at Rosamund Felsen Art in America, May, 2006 by Joe Lewis Kim MacConnel’s new series of 28 small pseudo-origami and watercolor collages focus on a seemingly endless number of American foreign policy and military disasters in Africa, the Middle...
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...
