Short Post Better Than No Post
A review I wrote in less than 30 minutes
Good morning!
I’m having a few conflicted thoughts today. I have too many deadlines coming up; these are mixed in with prior commitments. There is no easy answer to which commitments will get shoved out the door and which ones will get promoted on my To-Do List. For example, a friend is curating a show in Long Island that I can’t attend because I previously agreed to attending a monster-truck rally in New Jersey. Given these two options of Art and America, there is no way to choose. Sigh. Who else even has this problem?
Instead of worrying about some of my upcoming deadlines, I’ve chosen to write up a quick and timely review instead.
If you’re in the city, today is your last day to see LoVid’s feedback works at Postmasters.
LoVid’s exhibition Hold On presents a dozen or so vibrant, patterned works showing the silhouettes of humans (and one dog) in moments of embrace on fabric panels and digital screens. A handful of the works do not have hugs; these come across as landscapes and give a glimpse into what a circuit board looks like when throwing a rave. All the works have been covered over by undulating geometries that are so tightly integrated into the compositions that it’s hard to tell background from foreground. Overall, these Magic Eye textures make the works full of sensory goodness; along with the visible stitching of the fabric, these techniques give some dimensionality to the works themselves, lending some material oomph and weight to otherwise two-dimensional works. What could have been a saccharine exercise in trying to put a tidy end to the Covid-19 Pandemic Years—It’s so nice we can all hug each other again!—is far stranger. With arms wrapped around each other, figure and ground, there is a sense of electronic feedback between and among humans, animals, and Earth illustrating he material networks we’re already part of, and will continue to be part of, into the next crisis.
Other notes and thoughts on the exhibition:
The movement of the figures are motion studies // Muybridge update
Imperfect geometry analog + digital relations (over the years)
Fractals? Grids
geometry and body
Are works in yellow less popular than works in blue?
Bubbly Wetware = the work I would buy; Double Bass = the work I would tell a museum to buy
Feedback
Batik?
Nice framing solution with stretchy fabric
Alright, next week I might actually make it to the Whitney Biennial. I picked up my Faculty card from Pratt, which means I can now show my card to museum staff for free entry. What a time to live!
As always, sorry in advance for the typos.
TTYS,
Cori/Corinna