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Hyperallergic
Good Vibrations and Milford Graves’s Healing Harmonics
Jun 28, 2021
"Graves’s work hijacks and stimulates the senses, pulling you through the space ... Allowing Graves’s work to activate and overwhelm the senses was freeing, relaxing, and, just as he always said, possibly even healing." – Annabel Keenan
The Highlands Current
Memory as a Parallel Dimension
Jun 28, 2021
"After featuring the work of three artists from farther afield in its debut exhibition in May, Fridman Gallery in Beacon will show the work of Hudson Valley artists in its second show, Time Lapse, which opens July 3 at its Main Street space." – Alison Rooney
Metal Magazine
Milford Graves Mind – Body Connections
Jun 14, 2021
"The depth of mind-body connections, the scientific art behind the human heartbeat, the physical and mental reaction to thought-provoking musical beats. These are a few of the subjects explored by the late visual artist and free jazz percussionist Milford Graves in his most recent and last work, the Heart Harmonics: sound energy, and natural healing phenomena." – Sofia Balestrin
Poughkeepsie Journal
Inaugural exhibit at new Beacon gallery features 'conceptual landscapes'
Jun 4, 2021
The gallery scene in Beacon was recently enriched when the Fridman Gallery opened in Beacon, its second location outside of New York City.
OUTSIDE LA: Remy Jungerman
Artillery Magazine
Apr 28, 2021
"For Jungerman, the act of creating is how he honors his ancestral Surinamese upbringing on his mother’s side; the artworks are the leftover."
Fridman Expands to Beacon
The Highlands Current
Apr 23, 2021
Fridman Gallery announces its second location in Beacon, New York.
475 Main Street, Beacon, NY
Apr 7, 2021
The inaugural exhibition, opening on May 1, will feature Nanette Carter, Athena LaTocha and Wura-Natasha Ogunji. Its title, Land Escape, refers to the artists’ use of a variety of media to create—rather than represent—landscapes. The opening will culminate at 8pm with an outdoor audio-visual performance by Victoria Keddie, using NASA’s live feed of space debris orbiting above Beacon.
Something Curated
Remy Jungerman Reframes Minimalism Through A Maroon Lens
Apr 1, 2021
Jacob Kirkegaard: TESTIMONIUM (review)
The Wire
Apr 1, 2021
"If there's dread in hearing the environment swamped by the wastefulness of consumer capitalism, it's that of the sublime." – George Grella
Listening to the Heart: Jacob Kirkegaard Interviewed by Julie Martin
BOMB Magazine
Mar 5, 2021
"Nothing the human ear can hear is alien to Kirkegaard, and through his recordings he confronts and captures the sounds that echo through the universe, and by making them audible renders them less forbidding."
—Julie Martin
Flash Art
Decaying Sound, Sounding Decay: Jacob Kirkegaard
Feb 23, 2021
"Like it or not, trash tells the truth about our time. “Testimonium” is a way of giving voice to waste, without teaching it how to speak or telling it what to say."
Someplace In Between
Fine Art Connoisseur
Feb 2, 2021
"Grasmann does not merely
record actual American spaces, but alters them into new ones, working
in a sort of fever dream to arrive at images that suit her objectives." – Charles Moore
Yvette Janine Jackson: Freedom review – vivid voyage through hate
The Guardian
Jan 15, 2021
Contemporary album of the month - John Lewis
Interview with Alina Grasmann
INTERLOCUTOR
Dec 14, 2020
"I want my paintings to be pictorial implementations of real, existing architecture, in which I can devote myself to personal examination of nature and the transience of things."
The Art Gallery in Your Mind’s Ear
Disquiet
Dec 9, 2020
' “Invisible People,” is all hellfire and brimstone, part excoriating exorcism, part calculated recitation of Jonathan Edwards sermonizing (heard here in usefully creepy text-to-speech), all playing out in an atmosphere of dissolute, slow-motion chamber music.'
"Freedom" Album review
The Wire Magazine issue 443
Dec 8, 2020
"The combination of vocals, sound effects, field recordings, and instrumentation is presented with an intensity that I've not felt for some time."
Listen: Yvette Janine Jackson’s "Destination Freedom" (Side A)
The Wire Magazine
Nov 27, 2020
"Destination Freedom is an example of Jackson’s favoured approach to storytelling: using history to examine contemporary social issues."
Disclosures: Dindga McCannon, or A Table of Their Own
White Hot Magazine
Oct 28, 2020
"In the act of communication, at the heart of artistic expression,
McCannon passes from the particular to the universal, transforming the language of her life into a language that addresses everyone and demands they take notice"
5 Artists on Our Radar This September
Artsy
Sep 1, 2020
"An accomplished musician with several albums under his belt, [Blitz] Bazawule is also an adept painter. “For me, everything is art,” Bazawule said in a 2017 article. “Literature is art, music is art, even culinary skills are art. I’m one of those artists who doesn’t see the need for clear barriers between art forms.” Through all of his work, he seeks to preserve and convey personal and ancestral memories."
After Dark Online: Hacking the Human Genome
Exploratorium
Aug 13, 2020
"Transmedia artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s work probes what we can and can’t learn from our DNA, balancing an optimistic perspective on biotechnology with an honest exploration of its ethical implications."