by The AFC Staff on April 23, 2012
Time for our Lower East Side installment in our “We Went to…” series. And you know what that means: a lot of griping. We moan pompously about aggrandizing titles. We trash found object sculpture. We fart on long-winded press releases. We deconstruct tedious professionalism. And of course, we liked a few shows. Read on to see what we have to say about Andy Coolquitt, Henry Taylor, Jeff Gibson, E.V.Day, and Kembra Pfahler.
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by Whitney Kimball on January 12, 2012
Since opening her doors in 2008, Lisa Cooley’s artists have consistently appeared in prestigious group shows, museum exhibitions, publications, and have been added to several major museums’ public collections. To name just a few of their larger shows over the past two years, J. Parker Valentine showed at Taka Ishii, Frank Haines performed at PS1, and Erin Shirreff exhibited in Greater New York and at the Met. It comes as no surprise that the gallery will soon move from its (roughly) 700-square-foot storefront on Orchard Street to a 4,800-square-foot space at 107 Norfolk.
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