Lori Ortiz
Bushwick is THE NEW SoHo
By Lori Ortiz“Bushwick is just like Greenpoint except the people are, you know, of color instead of Polish,” says a Greenpoint artist cheerfully, after a sunny midday trip to look at a raw loft space with a friend who was evicted from his Chelsea loft, given 60 days to clear out.
Brooklyn Pastiche: The Brooklyn Art Scene
By Lori OrtizThe 21st century will be the century in which we redefine ourselves as the first country in world history which is literally made up of every part of the world.
WARD SHELLEY The Cube
By Lori OrtizLast fall at Eyewash Gallery, during the Elsewhere weekend, Ward Shelley exhibited a penciled map networking the Williamsburg art community. With inherent humor, the normally hushed politics were set down on paper with neither apology nor judgment. It was a magnification of our reality; a print, a photograph.
CROSS-POLLINATION at The Holland Tunnel
By Lori OrtizTogether with Susan Joyce of Los Angeles, Williamsburg’s Mery Lynn McCorkle, a sometime gardener in more fertile environs, conceived of Cross Pollination after a discussion of flora indigenous to each coast.
DAVID KAPP at Beitzel Gallery
By Lori OrtizSoHo was like an old friend on the balmy, springlike evening of David Kapp’s opening. Kapp held court at Beitzel in a bright true blue shirt over a lively crowd of onlookers who could have been walking down his esplanades, or passing under the streetlamps in his paintings.
MEREDITH ALLEN and CHRIS BORS at P.S. 122
By Lori OrtizMeredith Allen employs depth of field comparable to Da Vinci’s atmospheric perspective in his portrait of the Mona Lisa. The dreamy backgrounds are instead the beautiful beach vistas of Eastern Long Island.
Jacqueline Humphries
By Lori OrtizIt has been the contemporary painters lot after Pollock and Rothko to find paths which lead to places not destined for despair.
Pitt.stop
By Lori OrtizPittsburgh is a city blessed with a physical and historical foundation for a commitment to the arts.
Suzan Batu
By Lori OrtizAn exclusive vocabulary of stylized floral and calligraphic figures on a static ground recall Batu’s Turkish roots.
