Archive for the “Mixed media” category
John Miller in Cologne
by Travis Jeppesen on June 22, 2011
Miller’s work is always defined by a certain effortlessness at crossing the cerebral with the visual. In this, he is more motivated by his subject matter than any one particular mode of expression or conceptual framework. The result is that (…)
Robert Mapplethorpe & Sterling Ruby @ Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
by Travis Jeppesen on January 15, 2010
A very strange exhibition, and one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. The show is actually Ruby’s — or more precisely, Ruby selected photographs of Mapplethrope’s and then made sculptural works responding to them. But Ruby’s work (…)
Wieland Speck & Shelly Silver @ Exile, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on November 19, 2009
My review of the Wieland Speck and Shelly Silver double solo exhibition at Exile is now online at Artforum.
Mat Collishaw
by Travis Jeppesen on October 16, 2009
“Now that postmodernism is beginning to appear an almost retro stance, it is artists like Collishaw, who interrogates histories through the disparate prisms of technologies recent and refurbished, that demonstrate how to make it new in even newer ways.” My (…)
Alexandra Ranner @ Loock Galerie, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on July 10, 2009
Alexandra Ranner is showing a series of photos of lonely, desolate rooms. Rooms that almost appear as though they were never intended for human inhabitance. Or, that they have been abandoned and sealed away, their forsaken state having yet to (…)
8th Baltic Contemporary Art Biennial – Szczecin, Poland
by Travis Jeppesen on June 6, 2009
Armando Lulaj, Time Out of Joint Szczecin is among the most depressing cities I’ve visited in Poland. I won’t say it’s my least favorite – that distinction would have to go to Zakopane, that overcrowded resort haven in the Tatra (…)
Jack Goldstein @ Daniel Buchholz Gallery, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on May 26, 2009
The story of Jack Goldstein is one of the saddest in recent art history. Throughout much of his career, Goldstein struggled with fame – both his own and that of the artists who rose to prominence alongside him in the (…)
Jacqueline Brown @ STYX Project Space, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on May 25, 2009
In her first solo exhibition, Jacqueline Brown uses drawings, photography, sound, and video to compose a sort of exercise in landscape autobiography. Mining the flora and fauna of the English countryside around Devon, where the young artist spent her childhood, (…)
For Jan Jakub Kotik, at 3am
by Travis Jeppesen on October 16, 2008
I do an occasional poetry column with Matthew Wascovich at 3ammagazine.com. In the latest installment, now online, you can read my homage to Jan Jakub Kotik.
5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art: 1st Impressions
by Travis Jeppesen on April 3, 2008
Today was the first day of the press preview for the latest installment of the Berlin Biennial, curated by Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic. I generally make it a rule to see a show at least twice before I review (…)