Mira Dayal
Mira Dayal is an artist, critic, and curator based in New York. www.miradayal.com
Daydream from 2013
By Mira DayalThe basket, also pink, is of a dull and dusty plastic. Somehow it manages to appear soft, as if it could melt into the floor or jiggle with a touch. In a dream, the potatoes might climb out of the basket, don that porcelain crown, and ooze onto the sidewalk.
Mall and Mosque: Authority Appraised and Approved
SOPHIA AL-MARIA Black Friday
By Mira Dayal
The first element of Sophia Al-Maria’s installation at the Whitney exceeds the gallery itself: thudding bass not unlike the dramatic undertone of a horror movie bleeds through the walls.
AGNES MARTIN
By Mira Dayal“Architect/arcetects/arcatects/arcetects/archetes,” Agnes Martin wrote at the bottom of her notes in 1974. The rest of the page is a tangle of equations and small diagrams with which the artist, having relocated from New York to New Mexico, began another burst of producing her iconic striped canvases.
Ian Wilson
By Mira DayalThe ignoramus is not simply one who does not as yet know what the schoolmaster knows. She is the one who does not know what she does not know or how to know it.
Edinburgh builders, a, 1987
By Mira Dayal
Milling Stone
By Mira DayalThe way a review’s argument takes shape is not dissimilar to the way an artwork’s premise comes about. Selected from the lot of pebbles-cum-premises, the rock is given some time in the tumbler, from which it emerges smooth, clear, yet with enough of an edge to feel distinctive.
