Hiders
Feeling bad about one’s self is not the same as being an artist, a critic had written in a review of her last show, slouched metal sculptures deformed, which-despite being massive, looming and architectonic in scale-read popularly as bodies, frequently her own. She had worked handily on them, that was true. She wondered to what […]
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination… (ii)
The artist recalled scant philosophy readings from graduate school, slant memories of art theory. “Verbs surface in the description,” she remembered one art historian, the very obscure one, or, no, the one who wrote obscurely, she was prominent, writing in defense of the public sculpture everyone hated.iii “A kind of projectile of the gaze…”iv That […]
Two facts can be false at once.
The child exceeds tutoring. What’s this color called, he’d be asked, the instructor or mother pointing to the sky, and in place of blue, cerulean, azure, sapphire, he’d reply, “everything.” “All of them, you mean.” →
Multiples
The street in front of the site conflagrated with cabs, moving vans, electric bicycles, masses. It is said that the first traffic jam on Broadway was precipitated by the excitement over Henri Bergson’s lecture “Spirituality and Liberty” at Columbia University. “The essence of pity is thus a need for self-abasement, an aspiration downward,” Bergson had […]
Experience Error / Harmony in Red
EXPERIENCE ERROR / HARMONY IN RED Drew Zeiba →
We Responsible Others
Commissioned to develop a sculpture, the artist instead found herself attempting to define the space around it. What use is a sculpture without a room, a world? She’d asked her gallerist who reminded her that the municipal client had come with a certain budget. Your job is to make things, the gallerist seemed to misunderstand, […]
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We Responsible Others Commissioned to develop a sculpture, the artist instead found herself attempting to define the space around it. What use is a sculpture without a room, a world? She’d asked her gallerist who reminded her that the municipal client had come with a certain budget. Your job is to make things, the gallerist […]
A LITTLE ABOUT FENCE
A Brief Introduction to the History, Mission, & Current State of Affairs at Fence Magazine & Fence Books Inc. 501c3 In Vice, Blake Butler has written: “[In] each issue of Fence…there’s always something to befuddle you, to challenge the idea of what could appear on paper, to make you wonder how or why a thing […]
Fence Auction and 2022 Auction Events Press Release
UNDER NEW LEADERSHIP, FENCE MAGAZINE HOLDS LARGE AUCTION TO BENEFIT MAGAZINE, BOOK & ONLINE PUBLICATIONS Queens, NY 10/2/2022 The newly anointed Editorial Co-Directors of Fence Magazineand Fence Publications, Emily Wallis Hughes and Jason Zuzga, announce an Art + Object + Experience Benefit Auction, hosted on the auction site Galabid. Zuzga and Wallis, who took […]
