Dara Birnbaum’s Note(s): Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On/Deal With)

By Jennie Waldow

DEC 21-JAN 22 | Art Books

Materially detached from Birnbaum’s finished products, her working documents chart the theoretical motivations behind each piece, along with the novel technical solutions she devised to translate thorny concepts into external space. While this is not a publication for the casual reader, its complexity and resolute physical presence dovetail with the concerns of Birnbaum’s body of work, linking means and ends.

Wet Conceptualism

By William Corwin

FEB 2023 | ArtSeen

Hand-written, rough, colorful, sentimental, or DIY, yet indicative of a complex concept-driven interior thought process not fully compliant with an aesthetic or formalist framework, one that is indicative of traditional “art”: these are the calling cards of “wet conceptualism.”

Ashley McKenzie with Joseph Pomp

FEB 2023 | Film

Sitting down with the Rail’s Joseph Pomp, Ashley McKenzie discusses music, neurochemistry, and relationships in the process of creating her new film, Queens of the Qing Dynasty.

Georg Baselitz: Six Decades of Drawing

By Alfred Mac Adam

DEC 22–JAN 23 | ArtSeen

If entelechy is the process by which something becomes what nature intended it to be—the fertilized egg becomes the human being, the acorn the oak tree—then Georg Baselitz leapfrogged it, springing, like Athena, fully grown from his own forehead.