Tag: technology

Njideka Akunyili Crosby in ‘Side by Side’

Known for portrait-like works created with a range of materials and techniques from paint to photo transfer (like the image pictured here from a ’19 exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery), Njideka Akunyili Crosby recently simplified her procedure in paintings presented at last summer’s Venice Biennial.  Two of these are highlights of ‘Side By Side,’ a new on-line collaboration between David Zwirner Gallery and Victoria Miro Gallery for which the two galleries are presenting works via 3-D renderings by VortecXR.  Specifically addressing how to see artwork without being present in front of it, Side By Side showcases technology as much as the art, both of which are worth a look.

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Nyado: The Thing Around Her Neck, acrylic, photographic transfers, color pencil, charcoal and collage on paper, 81 ½ x 81 ¾ inches, 2011.

Michal Rovner at Pace Gallery

Lines of moving silhouettes endlessly crisscross rugged terrain in ‘Blue Hills,’ an arresting video at the entrance to Michal Rovner’s latest solo show at Pace Gallery.  Suggesting constant migration across inhospitable land, the piece’s calm colors belie more overt alarm in several of the show’s other works, in which bodies with flashing red lights for heads or constantly waving arms sound a warning.  Reflecting on the role of technology in our daily lives, Rovner muses that we are becoming ‘bar codes with DNA.’  (On view at Pace Gallery’s 25th Street location through June 29th).

Michal Rovner, Blue Hills, LCD screen and video, 57 1/8 x 32 5/8 x 3 3/8 inches, 2018.

Beryl Korot at Bitforms

This 1980 painting on hand-woven linen by video art pioneer Beryl Korot (seen in detail) demonstrates the language she devised, based on the grid of woven cloth.  The text is based on the account of the Tower of Babel in Genesis, an account in which language fragments.  For Korot, Babel offers a chance to consider the ways that language and technology relate to human behavior.  (On view at Bitforms through May 20th).

Beryl Korot, detail of Babel 2, acrylic on hand-woven linen, 72 x 38.75 inches, 1980.

David Hockney at Pace Gallery

Can the grandeur of the Yosemite landscape be captured on a small screen? David Hockney gives it a good shot, to luminous effect in his printed iPad drawings, now on view at Pace Gallery’s 25th Street location in Chelsea. (Through June 18th).

David Hockney, “Untitled No. 15” from “The Yosemite Suite,” iPad drawing printed on paper, 37 x 28,” 2010.
David Hockney, “Untitled No. 15” from “The Yosemite Suite,” iPad drawing printed on paper, 37 x 28,” 2010.

KRIWET in ‘All Watched Over’ at James Cohan Gallery

In colors that suggest political banners, Dusseldorf-based artist KRIWET created this bold ‘comic strip’ in 1970, using letters to create mental pictures. It is part of the group exhibition ‘All Watched Over’ at Chelsea’s James Cohan Gallery, which muses on the power of futuristic technology to improve life. (Through Aug 7th)

KRIWET, Comicstrip, 1970.