{"id":900,"date":"2010-08-12T20:42:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T01:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=900"},"modified":"2011-08-01T20:58:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T01:58:11","slug":"carol-bove-sterling-ruby-dana-schutz-at-andrea-rosen-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/12\/carol-bove-sterling-ruby-dana-schutz-at-andrea-rosen-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol Bove, Sterling Ruby, Dana Schutz at Andrea Rosen Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-901\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2011-08-01-at-9.44.59-PM.png\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-901\" title=\"Carol Bove, Sterling Ruby, Dana Schutz, installation view.  Photograph courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City.\" src=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2011-08-01-at-9.44.59-PM-300x196.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2011-08-01-at-9.44.59-PM-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2011-08-01-at-9.44.59-PM.png 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carol Bove, Sterling Ruby, Dana Schutz, installation view. Photograph courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At first glance, the works of Carol Bove, Sterling Ruby and Dana Schutz wouldn\u2019t seem to have much in common besides their creators\u2019 hot-artist status. Yet an undercurrent of aggression unites their otherwise disparate efforts. Bove\u2019s unusually severe sculptures, Ruby\u2019s antiauthoritarian sculpture and painting, and Schutz\u2019s gruesome canvases (including one showing a finger sliced in a fan) range from bold elegance to cheeky flipness in their flirtation with darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Bove\u2019s huge Plexiglas-and-expanded-sheet-metal boxes are the surprise of the show: a cold departure from her intimate assemblages of books and ephemera nostalgically evoking the \u201960s and \u201970s. The diamond-patterned mesh covering the top, bottom and sides of these rectangular objects explains the title,\u00a0<em>Harlequin<\/em>, perhaps after Picasso\u2019s predilection for that subject; here, they become obstreperous gatekeepers, obstructing access to the back galleries.<\/p>\n<p>Bove\u2019s works would have made an interesting match with Ruby\u2019s creepy cage sculpture from his last solo show at Pace Gallery; instead, the latter is represented by the comparatively refined\u00a0<em>Consolidator<\/em>, a dark-brown sculpture resembling a cross between a cannon and a coffin, whose title, scrawled across its face, exudes a vague corporate threat. A nearby painting references both a notorious nightclub and a supermax prison, starkly contrasting freedom with lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Lack of self-control afflicts Schutz\u2019s hapless characters, which include an escape artist who\u2019s pinned himself to a target with knives, and the numskull whose appliance-sliced finger has just generated a tasteful if gory modernist abstraction. After Bove\u2019s monuments to the beauty of power and Ruby\u2019s ominous embodiment of fear, Schutz\u2019s tongue-in-cheek portrayals are laugh-out-loud funny, and the highlight of this show.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published in Time Out New York, issue 775, August 5-11, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance, the works of Carol Bove, Sterling Ruby and Dana Schutz wouldn\u2019t seem to have much in common besides their creators\u2019 hot-artist status. Yet an undercurrent of aggression unites their otherwise disparate efforts. Bove\u2019s unusually severe sculptures, Ruby\u2019s antiauthoritarian sculpture and painting, and Schutz\u2019s gruesome canvases (including one showing a finger sliced in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/12\/carol-bove-sterling-ruby-dana-schutz-at-andrea-rosen-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carol Bove, Sterling Ruby, Dana Schutz at Andrea Rosen Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[8,29,18,60,9,15,62,14,13,12,36,33,10,61,16,34,11,35],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-art","tag-art-criticism","tag-artist","tag-carol-bove","tag-contemporary","tag-critic","tag-dana-schutz","tag-exhibition","tag-gallery","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-painting","tag-sculpture","tag-sterling-ruby","tag-tour","tag-tours","tag-visual-art","tag-visual-arts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-ew","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}