Author Archives: Howard Foster

Brian Gaman once tried to make eyeglass lenses by casting the glass himself.  They cracked; he left them unpolished.  He kept the bridge and arms off the frame, leaving just two black-rimmed circles.   And oh yes, did I mention, he made them nearly two feet high each? They lean casually against the wall. You would [...]

“Middle of the Day” is a long-term project.  John Miller has been taking pictures of the middle of the day since 1994.  They document Miller’s location between the hours of noon and two –wherever he may be as a typically nomadic professional artist.  These hours were apparently chosen as the “down time” of our contemporary [...]

 The centerpiece of Janine Antoni’s recent exhibition is Tear, and, paradoxically, all the tears (shed and ripped) remain offstage. A battered wrecking ball faces off against a video of an enormous open eye, blinking defensively in response to the loud percussions of a demolition.  The shapes—eyeball and wrecking ball—are isomorphic yet antiphonic.  On the one [...]