Becky hunter

I’ve repeatedly failed at making art, but my critical interest in Martin has only deepened. I observe in much of her work (not just the black paintings) a tense, disquieting affect, detailed in this review (2009). Through archival research, I discovered that before her major 1973 retrospective at ICA Philadelphia, responses to Martin’s work were far more ambivalent than those that came after. Reviewers, collectors and curators mention anxiety, exhaustion, confusion and even laughter in the face of her paintings…

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Amanda Wagner previewed Reading Room in print and online for the Philadelphia Daily News, 6 July, 2012.

For “Duett,” her curatorial debut, critic Becky Hunter demonstrated how an excellent curator combines the skills of a scholar and yenta. The match Hunter made between Berlin-based British artist, Alanna Lawley, and Philadelphian photographer, Matt Giel, yielded an intelligent, creative, conversation about photography, distance, abstract communication and curatorship. In the spirit of today’s Internet age, the artists never met in 3D. Instead, they inspired each other remotely (via Sykpe, GChat and email) and collaborated together on a series of interconnected…

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Check your literal-mindedness at the door. “Reading Room: Intersections Between Art & Writing,” a group show organized by Becky Huff Hunter for Little Berlin, reveals itself slowly. Eventually, though, the boundaries between the two mediums of expression begin to blur — and fascinatingly so. Artists can be strikingly original writers and vice versa. If you remember the Narrative Art movement that grew out of Conceptual Art and had its heyday in the 1970s — and counted William Wegman, Bill Beckley,…

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My article on Zachary Davis’s show at Extra Extra, Philadelphia, has been quoted in Triangulation and I Like This Art. Thanks! About Becky Becky Huff Hunter is an art writer, researcher, and communications project manager based in Philadelphia, USA.