Wild Beasts at Champion Contemporary
September 13, 2011, 9:30 am
Filed under: Austin, New York, Review, Sneak Peeks | Tags: Brian Fee, Champion Contemporary, Cory Arcangel, Daniel Heidkamp, Ezra Johnson, Joshua Abelow, Ryan Schneider, Ryan Trecartin, Schneider, Shara Hughes, Sonia Dutton
Filed under: Austin, New York, Review, Sneak Peeks | Tags: Brian Fee, Champion Contemporary, Cory Arcangel, Daniel Heidkamp, Ezra Johnson, Joshua Abelow, Ryan Schneider, Ryan Trecartin, Schneider, Shara Hughes, Sonia Dutton
An oasis of kicked-up color blooms in the Hill Country, focused in the Wild Beasts exhibition at Champion Contemporary. While New York City’s museums have, of late, treated “painterly” and “young” as extreme opposites — the recently closed video-imbued exhibitions by Cory Arcangel (Pro Tools at the Whitney) and Ryan Trecartin (Any Ever at PS1) come to mind — some of the city’s talent prove otherwise. After meeting Champion’s director Sonia Dutton this past March, Brooklyn-based painter Ryan Schneider (NAP #74) assembled a potent group of young artists reveling in color and canvas and undaunted by formalism. - Brian Fee, Austin Contributor
Shara Hughes | Simon, 2011, oil on canvas, 36″ x 40″ Image courtesy the artist and Champion
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