ESSAY Art in Troubled Times by Ric Kasini Kadour Note: A version of this essay appears as the editorial in Vermont Art Guide #5. The start of Summer 2017 felt pretty good. An exhibition I curated for the Vermont Arts Council opened in June. I built “Connections:...
In early 2012, I had been thinking about objects and particularly why objects matter and why we collect the stuff we do. Around that time, I interviewed Katharine Mulherin at her gallery on Queen West in Toronto. I learned we share an interest in collecting seemingly...
An ongoing project, Clouds :: Knowledge investigates the visual imagery of sky and clouds as a symbol of knowledge and epistemology in contemporary life. BACKGROUND One day, I was sitting at a coffee shop with an artist friend and trying to remember the name of this...
Installation made in response to the shootings at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida on June 12, 2016. Pulse consisted of three parts: a haystack of old shirts; a framed tweet; and a sound work by Terry Fairfield consisting of various cell phone noises.
STATEMENT We experience so much artwork online; we forget that what we’re seeing is actually little boxes. I think we tend to confuse these little boxes of information for the actual artwork they represent. Deals for the New Century is the second piece in a series of...
