Dara Birnbaum’s Note(s): Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On/Deal With)

By Jennie Waldow

DEC 21-JAN 22 | Art Books

Materially detached from Birnbaum’s finished products, her working documents chart the theoretical motivations behind each piece, along with the novel technical solutions she devised to translate thorny concepts into external space. While this is not a publication for the casual reader, its complexity and resolute physical presence dovetail with the concerns of Birnbaum’s body of work, linking means and ends.

Amy Sillman: Temporary Object

By Amanda Gluibizzi

JULY/AUG 2023 | ArtSeen

We could compare it to storyboards, as indeed, the gallery does, but Sillman allows us more control than we’re given when watching a movie. We’re not simply passive viewers; through our agency the objects are activated. In this way, though monochromatic and hard and made after the moves of painting—and therefore unlike Sillman’s limpid drawings, with their transparent medium and evident switchbacks—Temporary Object bears an important resemblance to the drawings included throughout and testifies to the artist’s process.

Why a Recession Might Not be Such a Bad Thing: Considerations on a “Hard Landing”

By Jose A. Tapia

SEPT 2023 | Field Notes

The proper unit of analysis when discussing economic issues is not obvious... The tradition dating back to the 1930s and the economist Simon Kuznets is to focus macroeconomic discussions specifically on national economies, because the nation-state is the political unit for which attempts to deal with economic turbulence are assumed to be possible. However, it is obvious that in recent decades the process of globalization has intensified quickly, so that referring to recessions in national economies is increasingly irrelevant.

Darrel Ellis: Regeneration

By Megan N. Liberty

JULY/AUG 2023 | ArtSeen

Archive and working process are at the center of the exhibition Darrel Ellis: Regeneration at the Bronx Museum of Art.