Optic Fiber / University City Arts League
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Optic Fiber is a restrained, elegant exhibition juxtaposing two very different approaches to working with textiles and objects. With Doug Witmer’s thoughtful organizing and light curatorial touch, the show at University City Arts League leaves adequate room for Fjord Gallery member Lindsay Chandler’s loud, knitted, and woven pieces to converse formally with Ana B. Hernandez’s blanched, fragile arrangements of natural and artificial things. Read more at theartblog.org.  |
August 2011: Becky Hunter selects David Riley
David Riley’s images drew me in, attracting my modernist art historian brain, which must have made some connection between the artist’s colourful, linear outputs and mid-twentieth century painting and sculpture – both hard-edged and expressive. But I admit to being,
Julianna Foster: In, and for, themselves
Julianna Foster’s Kirkwood (2011) photographs set a derelict cottage in a dense, encroaching forest. Mud, ash and paper scatter within its ripped walls and in an eerie dislocation of scale, a single flame stretches to threaten a whole room. It
Reading Room at little berlin
Reading Room, at little berlin, explores some of the ways in which contemporary visual artists, poets, writers, and scholars practice in the rich seam between art and writing. Focusing on works with particular sensual, personal, or material immediacy, the exhibition
Don McCullin: Shaped By War And More
Interview with Don McCullin Read the illustrated PDF Internationally renowned photojournalist Don McCullin recently gave a talk at the Imperial War Museum, London, where an exhibition surveying his life’s work – Shaped by War – is now on display. In
Vox Populi Fourth Wall / Video Sur III
Initiated in 2009, VideoSur is an ongoing series of experimental video shorts by artists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico. The films are chosen and distributed by DiscordiaFilms, a curatorial collective advocating for exchange between Latin American and United States
Quoted in Triangulation & I Like This Art
My article on Zachary Davis’s show at Extra Extra, Philadelphia, has been quoted in Triangulation and I Like This Art. Thanks!
Excursus III: Ooga Booga
ICA PHILADELPHIA October 17–December 16 Twice a year, Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art invites an artist, designer, publisher, or other cultural practitioner to create an installation responding the institution’s history, architecture, and current exhibitions. The residency, which has previously featured
Martha Wilson: Staging the Self
ARCADIA UNIVERSITY GALLERY August 24–November 4 “THE ARTIST OPERATES OUT OF THE VACUUM LEFT WHEN ALL OTHER VALUES ARE REJECTED,” notes Martha Wilson in her early photo-text composition A Portfolio of Models, 1974. Referring to her negotiation and subsequent refusal
Articles by publication
View Becky Huff Hunter’s art writing by publication… whitehotmagazine.com
Distributed Collectives / Little Berlin
Since the early 1990s, net art has evolved and established itself at the same rapid pace as digital technology. Simultaneously structured by, and acting upon, its medium, current online practice poses specific curatorial challenges relating to its mass digital distribution,