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Timothy Morton blogs Ajay Kurian’s exhibition, opening...

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:18:00 -0400

Timothy Morton blogs Ajay Kurian’s exhibition, opening July 16

Daniel Gordon, “Revolving Portrait” now on Triple...

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:48:00 -0400

Daniel Gordon, “Revolving Portrait” now on Triple Canopy

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Sun, 08 May 2011 22:02:45 -0400

Callicoon Fine Arts at the Dallas Art Fair, April 7 to 10 with...

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:38:00 -0400

Callicoon Fine Arts at the Dallas Art Fair, April 7 to 10 with works by Ben Berlow, Nicholas Buffon, Glen Fogel, Daniel Gordon, Carol Hepper, Benjamin Kress, Ajay Kurian, Dave Miko and Simone Shubuck.

Glen Fogel, “With Me… You” reviewed in...

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:27:00 -0400

Glen Fogel, “With Me… You” reviewed in Artforum April 2011 issue. Click image to enlarge.

ArtReview, Issue 49, April 2011. Participant Inc, New York 23...

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:57:00 -0400

ArtReview, Issue 49, April 2011.
Participant Inc, New York
23 January – 27 February

By David Everitt Howe

Glen Fogel has proved particularly adept at interpolating personal narrative into the messy politics of media culture. For his 2009 installation Art from Kansas City, he appropriated male escort Mike Jones’s memoir of his relationship with evangelical icon Ted Haggard. Blacking out the majority of the text, Fogel inserted his name in lieu of the author’s, and left uncensored sentences containing the word ‘Art’ – Haggard’s pseudonym – turning it into a tidy, efficient pun parodying an artist’s inherently compromised political position. Such slippages of the self took another turn with Glen from Colorado (2009). Featuring the name ‘Glen’ spelled out Dan Flavin-like in bare white fluorescent lights, the work pulsed as text-to-speech software read out, in an alien computer voice, the contents of personal letters written to Fogel.

Similar convolutions return with his first solo exhibition in New York, With Me… You, at Participant Inc, where the artist’s private correspondence makes another notable appearance. Written to him variously by friends and more-than-friends, the intimate letters are blown up as very large trompe l’oeil paintings, as if they were literally smoothed out… wrinkles, red stains and all. They read like a soap opera script, or perhaps something scribbled by hand in high school.From Jamie, August 20 (2010) exclaims, ‘Glen Fogel, what magic and enchantment that name is to me’. While from a slightly different angle, From Jess, September 30, 1994 (2010) reads, ‘You were just a heartless, selfish, immature wannabe’. And as if in some sort of awkward adolescent three-way, each letter’s author refers to the others by name. Or at least, some kind of name; in another nice trick, Fogel supplants real names with fake doubles, to protect identities. Propriety is again obfuscated by its cliquey, coded other. Delightful as these are to read, though, the letters gain little when roped into a painterly discourse – unless, in their almost Duchampian absurdity, they’re meant to challenge that dusty myth of the artist-as-genius.

Perhaps more nuanced, and less self-conscious, is Fogel’s spectacular five-channel video installation With Me… You (2011), which features five slowly rotating wedding rings projected side-by-side. Nearly as tall as the ceiling and occupying almost all the wall space, the work’s epic scale is both stunning and a bit frightening. Evoking the Home Shopping Network’s rotating ring displays, the objects are washed now and then in pleasing monochromatic tones. Glistening as they turn, the rings shine in that familiar TV way: exaggerated, with hyperreal twinkles. Though they look brand new, they all come from Fogel’s immediate family members: he spent several months gathering them from his sisters, mother and grandmother. Belonging to a sort of irreplaceable family history, value is thus displaced from something priced to something defiantly priceless. Nearly interchangeable as objects, the rings hover, like much of his work, between proper names – that is, between sign and symbol, object and metaphor – never fully possessed.

Photo by Etienne Frossard; courtesy Moving Image Art Fair, New...

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:23:00 -0500

Photo by Etienne Frossard; courtesy Moving Image Art Fair, New York

LINK to story on artinfo.com

Glen Fogel, “With Me … You” reviewed in...

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:06:00 -0500

Glen Fogel, “With Me … You” reviewed in today’s the New York Times by Holland Cotter.

Glen Fogel’s “With Me … You” (single...

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:47:00 -0500

Glen Fogel’s “With Me … You” (single channel), is currently playing at YAMA, a 6 x 9 meter screen that sits atop the Marmara Pera Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey

Glen Fogel, “With Me … You”, reviewed in The...

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:29:22 -0500

Glen Fogel, “With Me … You”, reviewed in The New Yorker. Up at Participant Inc, 253 East Houston Street, until February 27

Glen Fogel, “With Me … You”, reviewed by Lumi...

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:19:00 -0500

Glen Fogel, “With Me … You”, reviewed by Lumi Tan, Kaleidoscope Blog! Click to read and view installation photos

Glen Fogel’s “With Me … You” at...

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:59:00 -0500

Glen Fogel’s “With Me … You” at Participant Inc Hot Pick in Time Out New York

Dave Miko & Tom Thayer, “New World Pig” at the...

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:18:00 -0500

Dave Miko & Tom Thayer, “New World Pig” at the Kitchen reviewed in The New Yorker.

Dave Miko / Tom Thayer collaboration, “New World...

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:54:00 -0500

Dave Miko / Tom Thayer collaboration, “New World Pig” currently at The Kitchen reviewed by Ben Davis on artinfo.com

Photos by David Allison, courtesy the Kitchen

Glen Fogel's "With Me . . . You" selected by Doug McClemont among his top 10 New York shows.

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:19:00 -0500

Glen Fogel, With Me…You at Participant Inc.Through February 27thwww.participantinc.org Fogel, who...

Chelsea Spengemann’s review of Ben Berlow’...

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:51:00 -0500

Chelsea Spengemann’s review of Ben Berlow’ exhibition at Rawson Projects, open till February 20th.

Daniel Gordon illustrates a story on Julian Assange in this...

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:10:00 -0500

Daniel Gordon illustrates a story on Julian Assange in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine.

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Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:53:47 -0500

The Kitchen presents David Miko and Tom Thayer exhibition New...

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:38:00 -0500

The Kitchen presents David Miko and Tom Thayer exhibition

New World Pig January 7—March 5

New York, NY, Jan 7, 2011—The Kitchen presents New World Pig, a dual exhibition premiering the collaborative works of New York-based artists David Miko and Tom Thayer. The show, curated by Matthew Lyons, features Miko’s paintings and Thayer’s stop-motion animation videos. The exhibition will be on view January 7—March 5, 2010. The Kitchen’s gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 12:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. and Saturday, 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Admission is free. There will be an opening reception for the exhibition at The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street) on Friday, January 7 from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.

Miko and Thayer worked separately but in tandem to create New World Pig, an evocative, immersive installation of paintings and video. The artists juxtaposed the diverse vocabulary of Miko’s paintings (done in various combinations of oil, enamel, lacquer, ink, and acrylic on aluminum) with Thayer’s supersaturated colors and lo-fi image quality, which are derived from his use of antiquated VHS video technology along with current at-home, consumer-grade digital tools. In this exhibition, Miko’s paintings act as screens for Thayer’s projected animations.

At the heart of the exhibition is the strange phenomenon created by the combining and transforming of materials that result in glowing colors and shapes which shimmer and murmur to gradually reveal a murky folk tale. The singular, hybrid visual displays of painted and moving images created by Miko and Thayer parallels the theme of transformation that is central to the narrative of New World Pig.

Funding Credits

This exhibition is made possible with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the VisualArts, Dedalus Foundation Inc., and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Glen Fogel at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston & Participant Inc., NY

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:38:00 -0500

Perspectives 176: Glen Fogel: With Me… You Opening reception: October 6, 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.On view:...