Hannah Sage Kay
Hannah Sage Kay is a contributor to the Brooklyn Rail.
Take Me (I’m Yours)
By Hannah Sage KayTake Me (I’m Yours) presents the work of over forty artists, all of whom challenge the time-honored relationship of distance and deference established between art-object and viewer.
Doug Wheeler PSAD Synthetic Desert
By Hannah Sage KaySounds of life fade away as you, along with four museumgoers and one museum guard, pass through three successive off-white chambers separating the Guggenheim’s rotunda from Doug Wheeler’s PSAD Synthetic Desert in the topmost tower gallery.
Louise Lawler: LIGHTS OFF, AFTER HOURS, IN THE DARK
By Hannah Sage KayAn homage, a funerary march, a quiet celebration: Louise Lawler’s final exhibition at Metro Pictures, which will permanently shutter its doors in the coming months, resounds with a distinct nostalgia.
Doug Wheeler: PSAD Synthetic Desert III
By Hannah Sage KaySounds of life fade away as you, along with four museumgoers and one museum guard, pass through three successive off-white chambers separating the Guggenheim’s rotunda from Doug Wheeler’s PSAD Synthetic Desert III in the topmost tower gallery.
Madeline Hollander: Flatwing
By Hannah Sage KayBy choosing the rather doomed crickets as her subject, Hollander’s Flatwing highlights the enormity of an impact that can be brought about by even the smallest of changes, thus emphasizing the precarity of our present environmental situation and the intensely choreographed nature of the world around us.
MIKE KELLEY:
Kandors 1999-2011
By Hannah Sage Kay
By magnifying the stylistic, architectural, and compositional inconsistencies present within the original comic frames, Kelley highlights the vagaries and mythologies of memory—the tendency to forget and invent a (new) past.
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Twisted
By Hannah Sage KayTwisted is the 80-year-old artist’s first ever solo museum exhibition in New York City—despite a career marked by invisibility (whether purposeful or socially enforced), Hershman Leeson has only gained visibility with time.
Stories of Almost Everyone
By Hannah Sage KayLegibility varies greatly in the work of over thirty international artists exhibited in Stories of Almost Everyone at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
