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Rita Ackerman Makes No Friends With Salad

by Art Fag City on September 18, 2008 · 76 comments

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Rita Ackerman, Installation View, Don’t Give Me Salad (Nurses), Image via: Andrea Rosen Gallery

Rita Ackerman takes a page from the Stuckists this month at Andrea Rosen Gallery employing their trade mark coffee shop style of art.  I was not able to find any of their members using the female alien as subject matter, (or as Ackerman calls them, nurses,) though there are more than enough examples of art similarly lacking any originality or skill.  The garish paintings and assemblage works are a fairly astounding step back from her early collages.

On a related note, I would think if I were Sarah Braman and Joel Shapiro,  the artists in Gallery 2 at Andrea Rosen I might not be so pleased about the exhibit in the main gallery because it means a lot of people won’t make it through to the second space.  I know I didn’t.

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  • http://jessepatrickmartin.com/writing Jesse Patrick Martin

    I completely agree that Ackerman’s show is relentlessly bad, like first-semester work by freshmen art students who will transfer to a communications program by their second semester.

    I saw the show yesterday and this is what I say about it http://jessepatrickmartin.com/writing/

  • http://jessepatrickmartin.com/writing Jesse Patrick Martin

    I completely agree that Ackerman’s show is relentlessly bad, like first-semester work by freshmen art students who will transfer to a communications program by their second semester.

    I saw the show yesterday and this is what I say about it http://jessepatrickmartin.com/writing/

  • http://jessepatrickmartin.com/writing Jesse Patrick Martin

    I completely agree that Ackerman’s show is relentlessly bad, like first-semester work by freshmen art students who will transfer to a communications program by their second semester.

    I saw the show yesterday and this is what I say about it http://jessepatrickmartin.com/writing/

  • http://jessepatrickmartin.com/writing Jesse Patrick Martin

    I completely agree that Ackerman’s show is relentlessly bad, like first-semester work by freshmen art students who will transfer to a communications program by their second semester.

    I saw the show yesterday and this is what I say about it http://jessepatrickmartin.com/writing/

  • Belvoir

    Sigh. I just love Art Fag City, it’s so refreshing to see honest opinions. Keep it up, I appreciate it.

  • Belvoir

    Sigh. I just love Art Fag City, it’s so refreshing to see honest opinions. Keep it up, I appreciate it.

  • Belvoir

    Sigh. I just love Art Fag City, it’s so refreshing to see honest opinions. Keep it up, I appreciate it.

  • Belvoir

    Sigh. I just love Art Fag City, it’s so refreshing to see honest opinions. Keep it up, I appreciate it.

  • reportage

    nice reference in the title.

  • reportage

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  • reportage

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  • reportage

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  • semina

    WIthout doubt one of the worst shows around chelsea at present.
    Teenage angst anyone………?
    Check Matthew Monahan’s show at Anton Kern a real strong show!

  • semina

    WIthout doubt one of the worst shows around chelsea at present.
    Teenage angst anyone………?
    Check Matthew Monahan’s show at Anton Kern a real strong show!

  • semina

    WIthout doubt one of the worst shows around chelsea at present.
    Teenage angst anyone………?
    Check Matthew Monahan’s show at Anton Kern a real strong show!

  • semina

    WIthout doubt one of the worst shows around chelsea at present.
    Teenage angst anyone………?
    Check Matthew Monahan’s show at Anton Kern a real strong show!

  • Anon

    Why is she “relevant”? She is a well-connected downtown art-and-fashion-crowd person. The random fake-poor street cred enjoyed by Nate Lowman, et all. If she weren’t , people wouldn’t care. The reference to Prince is a bit hypocritical as she enjoys the same in-crowd audience as his (before Gagosian and the retrospective made him a bit too mainstream for some). Let’s face it, most people who make this level of bad work HAVE to be excellent and leading scenesters (see Dan Colen).

  • Anon

    Why is she “relevant”? She is a well-connected downtown art-and-fashion-crowd person. The random fake-poor street cred enjoyed by Nate Lowman, et all. If she weren’t , people wouldn’t care. The reference to Prince is a bit hypocritical as she enjoys the same in-crowd audience as his (before Gagosian and the retrospective made him a bit too mainstream for some). Let’s face it, most people who make this level of bad work HAVE to be excellent and leading scenesters (see Dan Colen).

  • Anon

    Why is she “relevant”? She is a well-connected downtown art-and-fashion-crowd person. The random fake-poor street cred enjoyed by Nate Lowman, et all. If she weren’t , people wouldn’t care. The reference to Prince is a bit hypocritical as she enjoys the same in-crowd audience as his (before Gagosian and the retrospective made him a bit too mainstream for some). Let’s face it, most people who make this level of bad work HAVE to be excellent and leading scenesters (see Dan Colen).

  • http://www.ilovefeminism.comorwww.ihatemen.com Germaine Greer

    Obviously you people are jealous of Rita Ackermann because all you get to do all day long is sit on the internet talking shit about her while she is too busy laughing straight to the bank from the profits of her beautiful paintings. She has no time to read your complaints, she is a busy woman making art! Hahaha!

  • http://www.ilovefeminism.comorwww.ihatemen.com Germaine Greer

    Obviously you people are jealous of Rita Ackermann because all you get to do all day long is sit on the internet talking shit about her while she is too busy laughing straight to the bank from the profits of her beautiful paintings. She has no time to read your complaints, she is a busy woman making art! Hahaha!

  • http://www.ilovefeminism.comorwww.ihatemen.com Germaine Greer

    Obviously you people are jealous of Rita Ackermann because all you get to do all day long is sit on the internet talking shit about her while she is too busy laughing straight to the bank from the profits of her beautiful paintings. She has no time to read your complaints, she is a busy woman making art! Hahaha!

  • diegos

    Rita Ackermann’s show had poetry, skill, and all these comments miss the point. Her work is ‘sloppy’ (the word doesn’t even apply here) on purpose, there is an existential angst about it, as well as an expressionistic feel to it, obviously….but that’s it…it is on purpose…would you call kieffer sloppy? or oelhen?

    She has inspired many people and her independence is something to applaud…she emerged at a time when slick surfaces and read-made where all…and she showed up with raw, hand-made stuff, with a wierd voice that was at once private and loud….
    rather than posting insensitive stuff, why not learn a little…? nothing wrong with education…it usually goes hand-in-hand with intelligence,,,thanks Rita, I’m off to try and get a book of yours, or as you well put it “I need air, gentlemen” and out of this nonsense.

  • diegos

    Rita Ackermann’s show had poetry, skill, and all these comments miss the point. Her work is ‘sloppy’ (the word doesn’t even apply here) on purpose, there is an existential angst about it, as well as an expressionistic feel to it, obviously….but that’s it…it is on purpose…would you call kieffer sloppy? or oelhen?

    She has inspired many people and her independence is something to applaud…she emerged at a time when slick surfaces and read-made where all…and she showed up with raw, hand-made stuff, with a wierd voice that was at once private and loud….
    rather than posting insensitive stuff, why not learn a little…? nothing wrong with education…it usually goes hand-in-hand with intelligence,,,thanks Rita, I’m off to try and get a book of yours, or as you well put it “I need air, gentlemen” and out of this nonsense.

  • diegos

    Rita Ackermann’s show had poetry, skill, and all these comments miss the point. Her work is ‘sloppy’ (the word doesn’t even apply here) on purpose, there is an existential angst about it, as well as an expressionistic feel to it, obviously….but that’s it…it is on purpose…would you call kieffer sloppy? or oelhen?

    She has inspired many people and her independence is something to applaud…she emerged at a time when slick surfaces and read-made where all…and she showed up with raw, hand-made stuff, with a wierd voice that was at once private and loud….
    rather than posting insensitive stuff, why not learn a little…? nothing wrong with education…it usually goes hand-in-hand with intelligence,,,thanks Rita, I’m off to try and get a book of yours, or as you well put it “I need air, gentlemen” and out of this nonsense.

  • diegos

    Rita Ackermann’s show had poetry, skill, and all these comments miss the point. Her work is ‘sloppy’ (the word doesn’t even apply here) on purpose, there is an existential angst about it, as well as an expressionistic feel to it, obviously….but that’s it…it is on purpose…would you call kieffer sloppy? or oelhen?

    She has inspired many people and her independence is something to applaud…she emerged at a time when slick surfaces and read-made where all…and she showed up with raw, hand-made stuff, with a wierd voice that was at once private and loud….
    rather than posting insensitive stuff, why not learn a little…? nothing wrong with education…it usually goes hand-in-hand with intelligence,,,thanks Rita, I’m off to try and get a book of yours, or as you well put it “I need air, gentlemen” and out of this nonsense.

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