Akrylic Contemporary Art Criticism

Ula Einstein - you're invited...
saturday + sunday
noon - 5:00pm
184 Second Ave. bet. 11 + 12th sts, near Union Sq.

Ula Einstein - works on paper, installations, painting, sculpture
212.677.2350 www.artistsspace.org/ulaeinstein

Surface and the spaces between: material and metaphor
The materials I work with include discarded and found objects, various papers, and everyday materials and tools in my environment. Fire, thread, blades, human hair, eggshells, incense sticks, matches, needles, paint, balloons, tyvek, tape; my work includes the relationships with building and deconstructing, decay and birth, shadow and light. Iâ€™m using line and circle, and common materials and tools, to explore surface and ambiguity.

Iâ€™m dealing with the impermanence of things, and with inevitable relentless change. Whether empty or full, perception is everything, and Iâ€™m inspired by my experience that things are rarely as they seem. Engaged with positive and negative space, formally and conceptually, there is breath, existing in both.

Imprinting, branding, marking, altering, rekindling, are alluded to in works where firing - burning in as I burn away, blades - used to cut out as I score in, and, stitching, which is as much about, binding together as about anticipating coming undone, all speak to the paradox in relationship and the space I explore between sculpture, painting and drawing.

I think Jesus would be horrified at whats going on, Huma Bhabha quipped in front of J.C., her rendition of a shell-shocked son of God fashioned from scavenged wood and Styrofoam with clay accents.

Yun-Fei Jis monumental new landscape paintings, depicting scenes along the winding banks of the Yangtze River just prior to the areas flooding by the Three Gorges Dam, are composed of imagery sampled from a vast archive of photographs, notes and sketches he has developed on several trips to China over the past five years.

Kara Walker responds to Hurricane Katrina with a wake-up call of a show at the Met

Memo to the Art Gallery of Ontario: fire your marketing staff. Initially, we welcomed the news that the AGO would be hosting an Andy Warhol show. Until, that is, we saw the ads. Far from being clever and savvy, these ads actually raise the not-entirely-unrealistic prospect that the AGO had never ever heard of Warhol, nor had they any clue what he had ever done.

None of this is real, said Samuel Gareginyan to a crowd of assembled students, faculty, and other curious onlookers in his warm Armenian accent. Its a different plane of reality. And it was impossible not to see what he meant, in a room full of windows called paintings.

Like many contemporary artists, the philosophy that differentiates Carterâ€™s work from this movement is one that subscribes to the belief that manâ€™s most able self is his conscious self-his intending self.

An exploration of an under-explored register of artistic practice as it appears in the work of the Israeli-born, London-based artist Oreet Ashery.

Artists from Cindy Sherman to Orlan have explored the chameleon-like nature of female bodies for decades. So what makes Mutuâ€™s work unique? Apart from being skilled in montage she coherently refers to race, politics, fashion, and African identity in portraits that pack an aesthetic punch.

German born Canadian artist Volker Seding approaches his subject from the vantage point of a witness. Presenting architectural façades from Toronto, New York, Paris, Venice, and Havana, amongst other locales, his photographs provide a visual record of the history of the street and the city it inhabits.