{"id":823,"date":"2011-01-31T12:09:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T16:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=823"},"modified":"2011-02-02T11:25:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T15:25:17","slug":"toms-picks-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"Tom’s Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stephen G. Rhodes, Untitled, 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You could have a rewarding contemporary art viewing trip to New York city this month and just see shows by artists affiliated with Bard.\u00a0 One of the hottest rising art stars on the scene at the moment is Stephen G. Rhodes<\/strong> (BFA 1999) whose current show at Metro Pictures (519 West 24th<\/sup>, through March 5) is an exhilarating mixture of chaos and control, ostensibly inspired by the philosophy and biography of Emmanuel Kant.\u00a0 You enter through a ramshackle hallway festooned with crudely nailed and propped up pieces of wood, hanging vitrines with graffitied clown posters, assorted books, and shelves supporting found objects.\u00a0 They lead to and from the central gallery that houses four projectors.\u00a0 Fast cut sequences are projected on each wall, featuring, among other things, two guys in long blonde wigs engaged in various acts of creation and destruction:\u00a0 typing on an old fashioned electric typewriter with porn images attached, dragging mugs noisily along rocky paths, setting strips of substance on fire on the floor, walking angrily on the side of a road, etc., etc.\u00a0 The anarchic randomness and destruction has a wild sort of humor, and is accompanied by a loud sound track that amplifies the chaotic action on the screens.\u00a0 The show is accompanied by a translation of a passage from Kant \u201cby\u201d Rhodes which reads as if he ran the passage through a shoddy internet translation program and printed the results:\u00a0 \u201cDoctors and logicians have for some time the opinion of the human head table is simply a drum sound that\u2019s like nothing there.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the Lower East Side another Bard alum rising art star, Zak Kitnik<\/strong>, (Studio Art ’07), has 3 pieces in the front of a 3-artist show at Rachel Uffner Gallery (Orchard Street, through Feb. 20).\u00a0 Cooler and more ironic than Rhodes, Kitnik loves to rephrase modernist geometric abstraction in post-modern ways.\u00a0 The dominant work here is a construction hanging from the ceiling almost to the floor.\u00a0 It\u2019s made of thick rectangular pieces of transparent plastic suspended horizontally in tension by a complex set of wires and anchors; the support mechanism is more visually present than the material it supports.\u00a0 Two other Kitnik pieces, a collage and another 3D work, are significantly different from this one, but share its purist geometry.<\/p>\n

Across the street at the Lesley Heller Gallery (54 Orchard Street, through Feb. 20) is a 4 person show, Fractured Earth<\/em>, that features Bard\u2019s two graphic arts instructors:\u00a0 Nicola Lopez<\/strong> exhibits dynamic printed constructions of angular modernist architecture, and Lothar Osterburg <\/strong>shows <\/strong>spooky scenes of imaginary architecture rendered in gorgeous photogravure.\u00a0 While at Lesley Heller don\u2019t miss the back gallery, which usually features a stunning, coloristically vibrant painting by Ken Buhler<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Not angry enough for you?\u00a0 Walk down a couple of blocks and see\/read the Readykeulous<\/strong> show of art and text pieces by the lesbian collective at Invisible-Exports (14A Orchard Street, through Feb. 13), including works by Bard painting prof Nicole Eisenmann<\/strong> and former Bard prof Louise Fishman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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