Tag Archive "odili-donald-odita"
Chelsea – We look high and low and run into friends
It was a day of big sculpture installations and unexpected encounters with friends. Cate ran around with us in Chelsea. We also had a gastro-incident and a gastro-delight: At our usual eatery, Pepe Giallo, the little Italian place at 253 10th Ave, we hadn’t even ordered when our wait person came to us and said they couldn’t take our order because the NY Dept of Health had just walked in to do a surprise kitchen check. We hope they passed. Ever resourceful, we crossed the street and tried Trestle on Tenth at 242 10th (between 24th and 25th). Cate and ... More » »
PAFA’s Summer Surprises and more
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in the past two years, has acquired work by five African American artists, four of them from the international and national art strataspheres. Their work looks spectacular in the show Summer Surprises, an exhibit that includes recent acquisitions of work by 11 artists, placing the 11 in the context of some earlier acquisitions also on display! The large contingent of artists of color working within yet challenging and stretching the academy’s reality-based tradition is the big news. The five with work acquired in 2010 and 2009 are Mickalene Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Mark Bradford, ... More » »
Robert Storr defends his shows
Yale University School of Art Dean, Robert Storr. Thanks China Culture for the picture. We were interested to hear Yale Dean and curator Robert Storr on abstract art, part of a series of 3 lectures at the Met. The series seems to be about contextualizing up-and-coming artists in the canon. Here’s who was under discussion last Saturday: (in the canon already)– Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Robert Ryman, Jasper Johns, and Gerhard Richter—and (not there yet but Storr wants to put them in) — Odili Donald Odita, Tom Nozkowski, Mary Heilmann, El Anatsui and Ron Gorchov. Many of the examples Storr used ... More » »
Here and There; Ardeshir Mohassess, Odili Donald Odita, Katie Baldwin
Ardeshir Mohasses The king is always above the people from the series Life in Iran (1978) ink on paper; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Ardeshir Mohassess at the Asia Society, New YorkContemporary media and the internet delude us with the fiction that we have access to global knowledge, yet much of the world escapes our sight. I’m grateful to the Asia Society for time and again expanding my view, as it does with it’s current exhibition devoted to extraordinary drawings by the Iranian satirist, Ardeshir Mohassess (through August 3). As repressive as the Bush administration has been, ours ... More » »
Bicultural man–Odili Donald Odita talks at UArts
Odili Donald Odita in a beautiful bright pink shirt Never trust what an artist says about his own work. Well, trust them only some of the time.I’m referring to this year’s Venice Biennale American pick Odili Donald Odita. He gave a talk Wednesday at University of the Arts, part of the Food for Thought lecture series organized by the Summer MFA program. The talk was great, and the talk was puzzling. Give Me Shelter, 2007, at the Venice Biennale; acrylic latex wall paint and colored pigment on wall. Odita, who was born in Nigeria, grew up in middle-class-suburban Ohio. His ... More » »
The Venetians-Josh Mosley and Odili Donald Odita
Two Philadelphia artists are in the Venice Bienale which opens in June. Awesome!! New Philadelphia arrival Odili Donald Odita, painter and recent Tyler faculty hire, and Joshua Mosley, clay and digital animation wizard and Penn faculty are the honored two. Congratulations to both!! Joshua MosleyI got a note from Mosley recently. The artist has been in Rome all year on fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. He said his work will be in the International show installed in two rooms of the Italian Pavilion. Mosley’s project is called Dread, and it’s five bronzes and a six-minute animation projection. Anthia, ... More » »
