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Matthew Monahan at MOCA, Los Angeles

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Tamarin

Nicholas Brown is an artist based between London and California. He makes clunking wooden contraptions that hang somewhere between functionality and aesthetics, so you’re never quite sure if what you’re looking at is the result of a tangled-up performance you’ve just missed, the remnants of some eccentric personal experiment, or an ongoing room-sized project of [...]

Filed under: Los Angeles, MOCA, Matthew Monahan, Nicholas Brown, art, central st martins, context, drawing, frame, inside/outside, installation, review, sculpture | Leave a Comment »

Review: Insider Art (2)

Posted on August 13, 2007 by Tamarin

Here’s my take on the show – scroll down to Review (1) for an alternative viewpoint by Craig Kao.
Exhibition: Insider Art
ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
12 July – 9 September (daily 12pm-7.30pm)
I’ve been struggling with the Insider Art exhibition at the ICA because it’s hard to know how to frame it. The two [...]

Filed under: Greyson Perry, ICA, Inner Worlds Outside, Koestler, Mark Sladen, Whitechapel, art, criminal psychology, drawing, exhibition, inside/outside, insider art, outsider art, prison, review, sculpture | 1 Comment »

Review: Insider Art (1)

Posted on August 13, 2007 by Tamarin

Here’s the first of two reviews of the provocative current show at the ICA. This one’s by artist Craig Kao who most recently exhibited in the to take a-way (one) exhibition at the Nolias Gallery. I think his review raises some interesting questions about the role of the ICA in the curation of the work, [...]

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Review: Beauhemia

Posted on August 5, 2007 by Tamarin

Exhibition: Beauhemia
Nettie Horn, 25b Vyner Street, London E2 9DG, 6 July – 12 August

I want to write about just one work in Beauhemia, the current show at the new Vyner Street Nettie Horn premises.
I’ll do my best to sidestep the press release’s generically grand claim that the exhibition “explores themes surrounding the loss of and [...]

Filed under: Beauhemia, Debbie Lawson, Hektor Mamet, Kate Street, Nettie Horn, Persian rug, art, chair, exhibition, frame, inside/outside, installation, nolias gallery, review, sculpture, slug, vyner st, white cube | 1 Comment »

Review: Christina Mackie

Posted on July 28, 2007 by Tamarin

Exhibition: The Large Huts, Christina Mackie
Sculpture Court, Tate Britain, 2 June – 28 Oct
I found a slug under my foot this morning on the way to the Tate Britain, which had resisted a little before giving way. The feeling of the soft resistance stayed with me uncomfortably as I trod around Christina Mackie’s The Large [...]

Filed under: Christina Mackie, Gadami Beach, Pakistan, Sculpture Court, Tate Britain, art, exhibition, grass, inside/outside, installation, review, scale, sculpture, slug, white cube | 1 Comment »