Selected Press
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Nargess Banks
1 June
At Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Angel Otero infuses paintings with a dreamy magical realism
‘I have come to understand place as a living presence within the work – not merely a backdrop but a condition that shapes perception. Every environment holds a quiet residue of light, architecture, weather and history. The studio becomes porous, and what lies beyond inevitably seeps into the painting.’
The New York Times
J Wortham
28 May
In the Art of Firelei Báez, Our Histories Are Ready for a Review
'Báez’s work is prescient, grappling with the production of knowledge in the modern world and the havoc wreaked when one group of people decided to establish a hierarchy with themselves at the top, and bend the universe to their will.'
Artforum
26 May
Sonia Boyce on René Magritte, Lygia Clark, and the Art of Improvisation
‘The question of fun and play I take very seriously in the work...I really think we discover something collectively and about ourselves when there is a space for fun.’
CNN
Leah Asmelash
24 May
Amy Sherald finds her people
‘It feels like more of a commitment...Like a reassertion of no, actually this is the America that exists in this museum, in this city, and we are not letting that go.’
The Guardian
Charlotte Jansen
22 May
Phyllida Barlow: Disruptor review – sexy latex and gobs of gum as a stately home gets trashed
‘The house says, I am here, I’m important – Barlow says, everything is precarious, nothing goes as planned. It’s electric and a bit cheeky too.’
The New York Times
Elly Fishman
20 May
For the Obama Center, Mark Bradford Paints a Fierce and Luminous Chicago
‘Bradford, who at 64 is one of the country’s most celebrated contemporary painters, brings some controlled chaos to every canvas. Tension between disorder and structure animates 'City of the Big Shoulders.’
T: The New York Times Style Magazine
Precious Adesina
20 May
An Artist Re-Examines Her Catholic Upbringing
‘You can take in a full painting from five meters away and it’s one thing, and then you get closer and it’s another.’
Flash Art
Daniel Merritt
18 May
After You. Roni Horn
‘Horn is not interested in movements, and she is not interested in producing work through incremental shifts. Hers is a practice guided by solitude and a hyper-responsive inner world tempered by a need for steadiness.’
Financial Times
Michael Peel
16 May
Artist Keith Tyson on why he’s funding Oxford’s 400-year-old astronomy professorship
‘The artist says he doesn’t 'really make artworks, I make systems that make artworks. I make the
conditions that bring something to be, like a Petri dish that something grows in.’
Family Style
Sahir Ahmed
13 May
In the Fold: Firelei Báez
‘What is it to navigate the world when you’re not trying to contain it...but to be in it, to activate it, to see yourself as an integral part of it?’
New York Magazine
Evan Nicole Brown
8 May
Lorna Simpson’s Full-Circle Return to Venice
‘In set and setting, so much of the work...complement[s] the environment of Venice in color, scale, and being in this city that is slowly submerging and surrounded by water. So it’s a lovely return, actually.’
Financial Times
Lucy Davies
7 May
Allison Katz: ‘I like the idea of images that can go beyond themselves’
‘Puns and language-play are key tools of her practice and she deploys them with great dexterity.’
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