Love Sensation
Carol Rama review and a new episode of Private Life!
The mass-produced eyes resurrect the specter of dismembered dolls or the gleam of life restored to the stuffed corpse of an animal. But these canvases are not faces; the eyes, sometimes single though often paired, swarm and flow across the surface, looking out in many directions. They form inchoate fluid bodies and reflect back one’s experience of looking, making the paintings hover somewhere between a surrogate and a mirror.
—My short (!) review of Carol Rama’s exhibition in the new issue of the New York Review of Books. (Her show at Hauser and Wirth is on view until the end of July.)
The new episode of Private Life is out now! Following up on last week’s interview with writer Robert Glück, we’ve got Eileen Myles reading Geoffrey O’Brien’s 1993 essay on Frank O’Hara “The Mayakovsky of MacDougal Street).
SUMMER LOVIN’!