Olga Balema: brain damage

By Amelia Farley

JUL-AUG 2019 | ArtSeen

Like the condition to which it refers, the exhibition brain damage does not just invoke a locus of injury, but also the diffusion of its effects.

Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain: New York Apartment

By Simon Wu

JUNE 2020 | ArtSeen

In its sparest incarnations, in new developments and renos, all we see are the sanitized appeasement of rented furniture, stock art, and stainless steel appliances. In this way, New York Apartment evokes the disturbing logic of gentrification in what its pictures hide: the displaced.

Andreas Malm’s Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency

By Max Ajl

NOV 2020 | Field Notes

One thumbs in vain through this book for any mention of the people who are not hypothetical, who are struggling in small, desperate, sincere, and hopeful ways for a better world. On this big, beautiful, desperate, poor, devastated planet are there no social forces which meet Malm’s standards for the subject or agent of ecological revolution or ecological Leninism?

Pat Passlof: The Brush is the Finger of the Brain

By Eleanor Heartney

NOV 2019 | ArtSeen

What comes through in these paintings is a radiant pictorial intelligence, a questing curiosity about what paint can do and a willingness to take formal risks.