Monthly Archives: October 2019

Mary Corse: A Survey in Light

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Riot Material, October 30, 2019. Mary Corse is finally having her moment in a breakout role as the luminary of ” light paintng.” Although Corse has received critical acclaim since the sixties she has been overshadowed by male SoCal Light and Space artists. Interestingly, it took New York women curators  to revise the canon with...
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Enrique Martinez Celaya’s The Tears of Things

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  Riot Material October 21, 2019. Enrique Martinez Celaya’s haunting exhibition at Kohn Gallery is conceived as visual poetry predicated  upon Virgil’s phrase “the tears of things.” As a physicist trained to ask questions that uncover contradictions he uses the poetic implications of Virgil’s phrase to make a quantum leap into the lofty realm of...
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Laura Krifka’s Wickedly Deviant Game of Patience

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Riot Material October 17, 2019. Laura Krifka enjoys doing things she is not supposed to do. Having absorbed the tenets of neoclassical paintng, she bypasses high-minded seriousness by adding a sugar-coated veneer of hyper-artificiality adopted from 1950s MGM musicals to the domestic decor of private scenes which she undercuts with a deviant sexual subtext recalling...
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