Friday, February 29, 2008

Nayland Blake, Ruth Root, Robert Gober







There are some great shows up now in chelsea, I loved Nayland Blake's show at Mathew Marks. The sculptures are cryptic collections of trinkets, universal in a very personal way and the drawings really kick ass! Robert Gober's Sculptures at MM on 21st and 22nd street are concise and open ended at the same time. I loved Ruth Root's show at Andrew Kreps not only because the paintings reminded me of Frank Stella's weird felt reliefs from the '70's , which means I loved the compositions and colors, but I liked how flat they were and that they were velcroed to the wall.

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