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Southwest Contemporary Art Review on Sam Grabowska’s “Intake” at Denver’s Understudy

Art review on Sam Grabowska’s “Intake,” an AI-generated art installation and psychotherapeutic shelter, at Denver’s Understudy gallery. Here’s an excerpt from my latest review: Pondering the word “intake,” the Oxford Dictionary states: “a location or structure through which something is taken.” Considering Grabowska’s academic background in architecture and cultural anthropology, their interest in shelter notably… Continue reading Southwest Contemporary Art Review on Sam Grabowska’s “Intake” at Denver’s Understudy

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Rat on Rat: The Offensive Art of Todd Field’s Tár (2022)

Tár creates an infinity mirror effect visually and in its textual content. As I argue, the many reflections or repetitions of words and images throughout the film highlight Tár’s postmodern anxiety regarding pastiche, or, the fear that everything one creates, including one’s self, is a copy of something else. Indeed, Tár and Field, as the film’s maestro, possess this fear as much as Tár the character.

Alicia Ordal’s “Birdsmouth” at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art

I asked Alicia Ordal to view the MCA’s current exhibition, Breakthroughs: A Celebration of RedLine at 15, with me and to tell me more about her piece, “Birdsmouth.”