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David Colman on Bruce Conner at Paula Cooper Gallery Review

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Bruce Conner, Three Screen Ray, 2006, three-channel video, black-and-white, sound, 5 minutes 16 seconds. Nowhere does the art world get more bollixed up than with video. A performance needs to be experienced in person. And, despite the thumbnail reign of Instagram, painting and sculpture should really be seen in art’s own space-time continuum. But does that really make sense for video?
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Review of Nayland Blake at Matthew Marks Gallery by David Colman

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Nayland Blake, Equipment for a Shameful Epic, 1993, mixed media, 84 × 63 × 32″. For decades I’ve mused on what I liked (or didn’t) about Nayland Blake’s art. Their capsule retrospective here, provocatively titled “Sex in the 90s,” made me think about it hard.
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Review of Erin Wright at Anat Ebgi by David Colman

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Considering the hypothetical dream destination for most paintings—i.e., a wall in a house, not a free-port storage facility in Delaware—it is surprising and frustrating that so few artists interrogate notions of domesticity as zealously as their press releases claim. You can’t make that complaint of Erin Wright, a Los Angeles–based painter, architect, and professor who draws on the walls of home—figuratively—as a wellspring for divine inspiration and perverse inquiry.
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