Ad and Artists
Robert Smithson
Inscribed copy of Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges from Robert Smithson to Ad Reinhardt. Courtesy the Ad Reinhardt Foundation.
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Robert Smithson: Abstract Cartography
By Ann McCoyJUL-AUG 2021 | ArtSeen
The vast expanse of Smithsons artistic vision is staggering, and in this exhibition, we are transported on a geological timeline from the Proterozoic to a futuristic possibility of entropic collapse.

Alan Sonfist: American Earth Landscape
By Norman L KleeblattNOV 2021 | ArtSeen
When you google land art one of the top options features two photographic examples: Robert Smithsons monumental Spiral Jetty (1970), perhaps the paradigm for the genre, and Alan Sonfists Time Landscape (1978). Smithsons earthwork is a massive and muscular transformation of terrain set in the vast open area of Utahs Great Salt Lake. Its image is quickly identifiable, iconic. Time Landscape is modest, non-iconic, and set in the heart of an urban metropolis.
Elaine Reichek: Material Girl
By Norman L KleeblattAPRIL 2022 | ArtSeen
Elaine Reichek scavenges among sources from literature, history, mythology, and art, fabricating images and texts she transforms into textiles. Trained as a painter by avant-garde, intellectually rigorous icons, notably Ad Reinhardt, her career has been defined by her strategic use of the textile mediuma feminist, postmodern strategy.
Boyle Family: Nothing is more radical than the facts
By Mark BlochAPRIL 2021 | ArtSeen
In their first solo presentation in New York in over 40 years, the Boyle Familys earthprobes are disorienting re-creations of randomly selected areas of the earths surface, made from resin, fiberglass, and found materials, that combine Robert Smithsons earthiest visions with the uncanny eeriness of a Duane Hanson clone.