Kandis Williams @ SLUM, December 16th at 22:00

by Travis Jeppesen on December 11, 2009

SLUM is pleased to announce a one-night installation by American artist Kandis Williams. Williams will present a series of collages that replicate the interiors of the vagina, using black-and-white photocopies from many sources, including hardcore porn, African sculpture, and film (…)

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Excerpt from The Suiciders

by Travis Jeppesen on December 10, 2009

The artist must now live in a state of perpetual distraction. Art will be the measure of response to those distractions.

Marion Bataillard

by Travis Jeppesen on December 9, 2009

Looking at Marion Bataillard’s paintings is like peeking into a sort of madhouse or cult compound. Her figures are not quite gruesome enough to be called grotesque, but they aren’t pretty, either, and they inevitably bear expressions of rapture, existential (…)

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Wesley Willis

by Travis Jeppesen on December 8, 2009

Watch the new Wesley Willis documentary over at HTMLgiant.

British Art Now

by Travis Jeppesen on December 5, 2009

My review of the exhibition British Art Now, now online at Artforum.