Alejandro Contreras: In Work We Trust ¡Chamo, ¿qué hiciste con el carro?!

By Caitlin Anklam

JULY/AUG 2023 | ArtSeen

Alejandro Contreras’s In Work We Trust ¡Chamo, ¿qué hiciste con el carro?! at the ELM Foundation, his first solo exhibition in New York, is viscerally overwhelming. The sheer amount of material is difficult to process. Installation view: Alejandro Contreras: In Work We Trust ¡Chamo, ¿qué hiciste con el carro?!, The Boiler at ELM Foundation, Brooklyn, 2023. Courtesy the artist and The Boiler.

John Walker: New Work

By Amy Rahn

JUNE 2023 | ArtSeen

Resurrection III (2022), the first painting in John Walker: New Work, is an almost entirely cobalt-blue and white canvas stretching seven feet high. A vertical primer-white passage cuts upward through the blue, with lateral extensions branching left and right.

Olga Ravn’s My Work

By Amber Sparks

SEPT 2023 | Books

Throughout Olga Ravn’s latest novel, My Work, protagonist and new mother Anna repeatedly says she wants to write a “normal book.” It’s a brilliant refrain, because of course Ravn’s book is anything but normal, though it is an ambitious one.

Walter De Maria: Boxes for Meaningless Work

By Amanda Gluibizzi

MARCH 2023 | ArtSeen

Just as you’re about to step into Walter De Maria: Boxes for Meaningless Work, you might notice a short, high-pitched sound underlying the other noises that occupy museum galleries. It’s the chirping of crickets, and because it emanates from a speaker hung near the ceiling, it seems to envelop the vestibule, both placeable and unlocatable.