Joseph Hogan of the Hauenstein Center interviews me over two days for his fascinating and ecumenical podcast, Common Ground.
Making Art History
This Sunday at 4:30 join me for a discussion on "Making Art History Outside The Mainstream Art World" at David & Schweitzer Contemporary, 56 Bogart St., Brooklyn. Moderated by Lisa Corinne Davis, the panel includes Deborah Brown, Loren Munk, Krista Saunders Scenna, and Cynthia Tobar. The event is part of a series of discussions around the hardcover book "Making History Bushwick" (for which I am a contributor) and the group exhibition "Seeking Space," a benefit for Arts in Bushwick curated by Julie Torres that will be closing this Sunday at David & Schweitzer.
The weekend also offers another chance to see my exhibition "Bushwick Chronicle: Photography by Meryl Meisler, Writing by James Panero" on view at nearby Stout Projects before it closes on October 30.
Read the latest on the exhibition in Meryl's interview with Dana Schulz out today in 6sqft.
"Joe Zucker: Armada" in The Brooklyn Rail
Joe Zucker: Portrait of the artist. Pencil on paper by Phong Bui.
"Joe Zucker: Armada," the exhibition I organized at The National Arts Club, is reviewed by Harrison Tenzer in The Brooklyn Rail
Joe Zucker has avoided the limitations of working in a cohesive style, instead embracing logic to produce diverse bodies of work that seek to unite subject, technique, material, and support. From his cotton-ball paintings depicting the ills of slavery with the very commodity that fueled the trade in human flesh to his lake paintings, the result of paint being poured and hardening in a shallow container to create monochrome works about their own creation, Zucker constantly intertwines art history with practical craft, logic, and wit. Much has been written about this formal and conceptual balancing act, but relatively little attention has been paid to Zucker’s subject matter in itself. Armada, the recent retrospective of his works on paper and studies from the 1970s to the present that feature nautical themes curated by James Panero offers an opportunity to consider a specific topic that has proven particularly fruitful to Zucker over the decades: piracy.