What Meets the Eye
Year: 2024
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
peachy tech
let’s play it to get to back biting ya roll in the pale pearl behind our backs hello flapjack can’t help but laugh about this licking of talking mess so emerald, so peachy juice squirting […]
What Meets the Eye
Mondrian80 and Gravestone 1191 Cypress Hills Cemetery
In 2013, Jason Andrew curated a brilliant show of contemporary artists that revolved around a borrowed Giacometti drawing. The next year he borrowed a Gorky. Now he is back, collaborating this time with […]
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Sketchbook #26: Dorothy Robinson
Dorothy Robinson’s work makes me dream of long journeys through enchanted landscapes, walkabouts,and quests. An excerpt from Basho’s travel journals : “plovers fly away, the evening grows later/ with cold mountain winds.” Here is […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
The Pencil Review
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The Mossy Earth
If there’s no use (as some people have told me), Live it up! Or if you are looking forward to the Apocalypse or Doomsday consciously—or not, for religious or political reasons and/or mental issues, […]
What Meets the Eye
Short Takes On the LES: Jess, Vera Iliatova, and Rodney Dickson
Jess is an artist that goes (falls?) down a lot of rabbit holes: obsessive layering of multiple picture puzzles, intricate paintings of obscure prints and photographs, deep dives into the occult; he is impossible to […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
long since
incremental costs gray luxury starling’s pearl dress embossed what do they do to not get crossed murmuration coming down to black earth while the sky is clouded & the fire can’t be lit so quarrelsome […]
What Meets the Eye
Say It Ain’t So–“The Last Picture Show” at Betty Cunningham
What I really, really like about the gallery is the bench and the couch. Now, before you take that as an insult, let me explain. Cunningham thinks the paintings she shows are worth looking at […]