Marcus Civin
Marcus Civin is a performance artist, writer, and Assistant Dean in the School of Art at Pratt Institute. He has written for Afterimage, Artforum, Art Papers, Maake Magazine, Southwest Contemporary, and Momus, among other publications.
By Marcus Civin
This monograph emphasizes the power of the artist’s experience and the fluidity between his pursuits of painting, sculpture, and music, without offering details about individual works; it refuses to veer toward anything resembling institutional art history.
In the library galleries, you can listen to intimate and rare recordings such as a staticky tape of Reed singing lovingly to his early mentor Andy Warhol about art as business. Walking through, you start to think Reed always managed to look sculpted, ironic, and cool. Portraits of Reed are satisfyingly iconic, each one like raw material for a Warhol silkscreen.
For Dinkins, one of the main problems with AI is the existing data it uses.
Through historically informed works, Alex Callender resituates and reframes colonial images of Black people, especially Black women, asserting possibility and agency and enabling a kind of rebirth and immortality.
In Lantern Strike (Strong Loneliness), her second solo exhibition at 47 Canal, Cici Wu presents nine sculptures, four drawings, and a video, all dated 2021, that invite us to expand our understanding of proto-cinema by letting light, perception, and philosophy lead the way.
From life, Bey renders character. There are nearly 80 photographs in his traveling retrospective, An American Project, the artist’s first in 25 years, organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney, originating at SFMOMA.
