"As the Museum of Modern Art toyed with removing the stick of modernism from its own keister, artist Amy Sillman went whole hog with the best single gallery of art that didn’t follow modernist strictures, showing the mother ship the jolt possible when you let go of old ideas."

By Jerry Saltz – 12 December 2019

"Despite his unassuming abjection, or maybe because of the tenacity of similar abjection in our culture, and the fact that he has persistently thrown his arte povera in the face of a market obsessed with luxe surfaces, he has bitten off a huge chunk of gallery reality this fall."

By James Hannaham – 06 December 2019

"As she shares the spotlight with her friends and peers, Thomas promotes a vision of artmaking that relishes in solidarity and collaboration instead of tired notions of the single lone genius, toiling away in the studio to his sole benefit."

By Alina Cohen – 06 December 2019

"That their point of departure is a glitch reiterates this impossibility and makes the paintings even more fascinating to behold."

By Jody Zellen – 05 December 2019

"Her work has long been preoccupied with hybrid female figures, from eerie tree women made out of earth, bone and other natural materials to her collages, which splice magazines and images from pop culture to combine images of female beauty with ones of horror, distortion and violence."

By Annalisa Quinn – 04 December 2019

Vielmetter Los Angeles congratulates Genevieve Gaignard on Bloom Projects: Genevieve Gaignard, Outside Looking In, a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (March 5–May 31, 2020). This exhibition is curated by Alexandra Terry, Associate Curator, MCASB.

"Mutu’s installation ushers in a new era of cultural connectivity for the Met, one that I hope will inspire greater diversity and inclusion in its future offerings."

By Naimi J. Keith – December 2019

"Having long been known best as a painter, Nicole Eisenman has recently become one of our finest sculptors. Her characteristically playful five-part sculpture Sketch for a Fountain, which was first presented at the Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2017, is an ode to leisure and quiet contemplation."

By Claire Selvin – 28 November 2019

"She says her artwork is semi-autobiographical: large-scale paintings and sculptures focused on women, migrants and refugees, with references to the Italian Renaissance, Iraqi architectural design and Japanese woodcuts. Most of her work uses repeating images of women."

By Mandalit Del Barco – 3 December 2019

"Genevieve Gaignard, who currently resides in an artist compound in Leimert Park, explores race, class, and femininity through her works. Her wallpaper installation ascends from the sixth to seventh floor and is called “Never Too Much,” a title borrowed from her favorite Luther Vandross tune."

By Danielle Barnabe – 24 November 2019

"Pope.L’s ambivalence toward form, his creation of works that generate multiple versions and embodiments that elude art historical classification, is his way of slipping past barriers that divide art and life."

By Aria Dean – 20 November 2019

"Few artists have had more museum exposure in the past couple of years than Mickalene Thomas, a prolific maker in several media. In 2018 alone, her name was in the title of at least four different shows, and since then her work has been included in many other exhibitions across the country."

By Ted Loos – 24 November 2019

"Color and black-and-white are employed with equal evocativeness; oddly, you can imagine yourself inside several of the paintings, almost as though they portrayed actual spaces."

By Annabel Osberg – 20 November 2019