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about this issue | Northeast

Volume 1, Issue 1: Northeast The inaugural, curated issue of artcore seeks to establish a broad range of responses to contemporary art and curatorial practice from varied spatial perspectives. By … Continue reading

June 15, 2012

Adam Cvijanovic by Kalin Allen

Adam Cvijanovic’s paintings demand a re-consideration of space; the space we occupy as viewers and the spaces that he creates within his works. His ‘colossal murals’ are configured as imagined … Continue reading

June 15, 2012

Joanna M. Wezyk by Rana Edgar

Joanna M. Wezyk’s palette of darkened crimson hues and saturated tones construct intense and passionate atmospheres in the paintings from her bedchambers series. Each work invites viewers to experience an … Continue reading

June 15, 2012

Loft on Spring Street and Into the Obscure by Zach Chambers

Loft on Spring Street You were there. 1950’s New York, tearing through the scene, long nights talking of dreams with Pollock. Twilight hues mimicked by the glow of hand rolled … Continue reading

June 15, 2012

Home: An Imagined Place in the Work of Yael Bartana, Nari Ward, and Zineb Sedira by Erin Dziedzic

It is, therefore, a source of great virtue for the practised mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about invisible and transitory things, so that afterwards it may … Continue reading

June 15, 2012 · 1 Comment

Apemantus and Awful by Craig Drennen

Since late 2007, I have made work structured around Timon of Athens, the only of Shakespeare’s plays not produced in his own lifetime. The play was abandoned by Shakespeare and … Continue reading

June 15, 2012

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo! A Review of Maurizio Cattelan: All at the Guggenheim by Whitney Dail

When it comes to experiencing art, place matters. The Guggenheim’s design is the least hospitable environment for art exhibitions, but Maurizio Cattelan: All was an unanticipated exception that effectively made … Continue reading

June 15, 2012

If You Lived Here, You Would Be Home Right Now by Honor Bowman

Growing up, my father insisted on having our straggly front yard dug up and replaced with a beautiful carpet of emerald green sod, despite the sizeable cost. For him, like … Continue reading

June 15, 2012

William Cordova at the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts by Steve Locke

this one’s 4U (pa’ nosotros), curated by Evan J. Garza Among the work in the amazing William Cordova show at the Mills gallery at the BCA are two sets of … Continue reading

June 15, 2012

An Experiment in Curatorial Studies: Court Square, LIC by Jaime Schwartz

It is an accepted reality that today more people self-identify as artists than at any time in recent history. But, what of quantity’s dialectical opposite quality? Of these self-designated artists, … Continue reading

June 15, 2012

Paolo Piscitelli by Heather MacRae

An image of a window looking out onto the frosty snow capped trees of a mountainside evokes the sensation of a crisp cold day. It was this initial response to … Continue reading

June 15, 2012

Blurring Boundaries with Defined Lines by Caroline Rush

“Are these keys a part of the exhibit or are they yours?” was the first thing that blurted out of my mouth to the two security guards as I visited … Continue reading

June 15, 2012

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (November 20 – December 16, 2011) by Gregory Eltringham

Working in a remote area of the Southeast, US, presents a number of challenges in relation to exhibiting work outside of my immediate region. This most recent project is part … Continue reading

June 15, 2012

Five Questions with ARIKA with Erin Dziedzic

Mar. 3, 2012 On the occasion of the 2012 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NY, Erin Dziedzic posed five questions to UK-based not-for-profit group ARIKA. … Continue reading

June 15, 2012

MaryBeth Edelson: Selections from the Story Gathering Boxes 1972 – Ongoing by Paul Bloodgood

The boxes are made from thick pine board; simple, homemade, and built to last. They are divided into four sections, each one holding a couple hundred or so plain paper … Continue reading

June 15, 2012

Editors’ Letter | Northeast

We are very pleased to present the inaugural issue of artcore journal! artcore journal focuses on spatial concepts and considerations in contemporary art with the added infusion of recognizing the … Continue reading

January 22, 2012