Jared Quinton
is a contributor to the Rail
Postcommodity Coyotaje
By Jared QuintonIn part of Postcommodity’s takeover of Art in General’s new Dumbo space, a single photograph hangs at the end of a long gallery, spotlit and seemingly suspended in darkness.
Beverly Buchanan Ruins and Rituals
By Jared QuintonBeverly Buchanan isn’t exactly an art world unknown. In 1981, the Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta included three of Buchanan’s cast concrete sculptures in Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States at the all-female cooperative A.I.R. Gallery.
Tanya Aguiñiga: Extraño
By Jared QuintonAguiñiga is a staunch advocate for the power of interdisciplinary artmaking to facilitate the exchange of ideas about the borderlands and challenge zeitgeist narratives.
Tetsuya Ishida: Self-Portrait of Other
By Jared QuintonIn the more than 70 works by Tetsuya Ishida now on view at Chicagos Wrightwood 659, the late Japanese artist offers anxious visions of the individual within consumer capitalism. The haunting, darkly fantastical paintings depict men flayed, devoured, and exploited by industrial manufacturing and the fruits of its production.
Mariana Castillo Deball: Petlacoatl
By Jared QuintonThe Codex Fejérváry-Mayer, a pre-Columbian manuscript depicting the tōnalpōhualli, is currently held by the World Museum, Liverpool. Drawing inspiration from this rare, lushly detailed and hand-colored document, Castillo Deball has orchestrated a material and spatial reinstantiation of the tōnalpōhualli.
Daniel Baird: murmur
By Jared QuintonThe scale, calm, and quietude of Daniel G. Baird's second solo exhibition at PATRON Gallery are befitting of its title: murmur. Indeed, the prevailing features of the installation are its dimness and the burbling hum of tiny fountains.
Liz Magor: Blowout
By Jared QuintonA disquieting energy pulses with low-grade intensity throughout Liz Magors exhibition Blowout, co-organized by the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard and on view at the University of Chicagos Renaissance Society.
Julia Phillips: New Album
By Jared QuintonWith delicate ceramic body fragments on armatures of steel and stone, Phillips beckons viewers into an ambiguous physical and psychological space, where agency and desire meet subjugation and violence.