Lucas Zwirner
Lucas Zwirner
Recent Stories
Footnotes for The Ergonometer: A Psychoanalytic History
Footnotes for Wallace Prize Fiction: First Place
The Ergonometer: A Psychoanalytic History
Wallace Prize Fiction: First Place
The genesis of most apparatuses, the Ergonometer among them, stinks of psychological rot: only through sensitive analysis can we hope to separate inventions from their miasmic histories.
Materials at work in MFA exhibit
Many of the pieces in the MFA sculpture thesis exhibition, currently up at Green Gallery and the Edgewood Gallery, force us to question how materials affect our immediate and unconscious reactions to sculpture.
Sculpture MFA showcases personal space
The first two artists in Part One of the Sculpture MFA thesis exhibition currently up at Green Gallery are not using the gallery to display a collection of discrete objects; rather, they have created installations that turn public viewing spaces into personal rooms.
Maas ART ’11 gets personal/impersonal
Negotiating a balance between the personal and the impersonal, between what is properly the artist’s and what is borrowed from elsewhere, is undeniably vital to the success of contemporary art.
Zwirner: Student art focuses on process and material
“Near and Far,” which opened last week at the Green Gallery, features work from summer programs such as Norfolk and Auvillar among others.
Zwirner: Satire succeeds at MFA show
Without being overly moralizing, Michael Mikulec ART ’11 exposes a fundamental, and often overlooked, tension inherent to the act of branding oneself in any way.
REVIEW | At painting exhibit, sculpture
Most of the students who participated in part one of the School of Art Painting MFA Thesis Exhibition for last-year art students did not make paintings; despite its name, the show, which closed last Saturday, was comprised primarily of sculptures.
ART REVIEW | Students hearken to past, future in sculptural display
In part two of the Sculpture MFA Thesis Exhibition, which features the work of five second-year School of Arts students, many of the installations are rooted in actions that took place before and during the show’s opening last Thursday. Through the actions they reference, the pieces draw the viewer into the context of their own creation.
ART REVIEW | Painting stands out at the Whitney
NEW YORK — At the Whitney Biennial, many young artists have made videos and installations about their perceptions of time, but in the end what stands out are the paintings by older artists.