GalleryBeat » “Whitney Biennial”

Piece of Mind Cake

Paul H-O — Tue, 17 May 2011 17:35:56 +0000

Serendipity, cohesion, and conceptual width. Until May 28 at Elga Wimmer PCC 526 West 26th Street #310 New York, NY 10001 ARTISTS: Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, Melanie Bonajo, T.R. Ericsson, Faith Holland, Yeji Jun, Lisa Levy, Sono Osato, Carrie Mae Rose, Jason Swift, Jil Weinstock
http://www3.fitnyc.edu/artmarket/pieceofmind/pr.html What happens when a fresh faced group of twelve F.I.T. graduate student curators spend a year combing the New York art base from galleries to studios? Not only do they come up with ten artists, two of whom are GalleryBeat artists that work with us on production, but their professor is John Post Lee of Bravin Lee Projects. Seredipity, cohesion, and conceptual width. What I like about this particular set of artists and curators is happy enthusiasm, even from veteran artists who catch the bubbly vibe of the F.I.T. tribe right down to a guy as cranky as me, and their teacher, John Lee.

GalleryBeat’s New Opener

Paul H-O — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:19:19 +0000

Garett Holden grabbed ahold of the previous cartoon we patched like our fave jeans and designed a whole new/old opening spot crank up every show and every segment.

You can see Garett’s work on http://www.garettholden.com

GalleryBeat – Dr. Lisa’s Vagina Hypothesis – Whitney Bi. 2010

Paul H-O — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:17:25 +0000

GalleryBeat Media covers the Whitney Biennial 2010.
This is a small sample of coverage for this much anticipated show that has about as much juice as the Democrats in the Senate.

One of the more provocative installation pieces was by Kate Gilmore; a video of the artist beating her way out of a sheetrock closet with no doors or windows. She has apparently been walled in with a camera located from above when Dr. Lisa Levy posits a possible analysis the catches some traction – in Flavorpill.

1993-95 Whitney Biennial – Outrage and Fun

Paul H-O — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:41:34 +0000

Gallery Beat (now GalleryBeat) really began with the high-powered Whitney biennial of 1993 - if you google that year you will find that it is the most explosive Biennial on record.Race and gender was a big theme and artists with strong political orientation in their work used the Biennial as a platform to vent their provocative ideas. The interweb hadn’t been up to speed (it barely existed) so it was up to print and TV media to go starkers. Which they did. The ‘93 Whitney Bi became the poster child of all that what was wrong with contemporary art and how twisted it was. As far as GBTV was concerned, this was action TV and the best Biennial we’ve ever seen. Check out the Guerilla Girls poster for the ‘93 WhitBi. More of the Whitney show itself is catapulted to the forefront in our film “Guest of Cindy Sherman”…. And the artist that calls Charlie Finch an asshole there is Paula Hayes, as he said in comment.