New York: State Of The Art

It’s taken me quite a while to get round to seeing State Of The Art: New York considering I live exactly nine minutes from Urbis by foot.

A round-up of serveral young artists working out of New York. There were lots of installation and video pieces that didn’t really keep my interest too much. The artists that really stood out for me were Shelter Serra, Joe Winter and Graham Anderson.

Serra’s piece was a miniature cast of a a jeep in EPS foam – the crumbly stuff you find flowers stuck into. Reminiscent of Rachel Whiteread’s work, playful yet poignant.

Shelter Serra – Split Time (H2)

The work of Joe Winter was my favourite of all that was exhibited. His Printershake/Earthquake series was produce by picking up an inkjet printer as it prints it’s calibration page and violently shaking it. Inkjet/Sunset is a photograph of a blue sky printed repeatedly until the ink cartridge is empty. Both subtle and powerful works, they’d make a superb book.

Joe Winter – Inkjet/Sunset

Paul Anderson investigates using paint as a flat surface, playing around with painted folds and stripes to create the illusion of depth using flat block colours. The limited palette of colours only serves to make the paintings more striking.

Graham Anderson – Untitled

I’d certainly recommend seeing this exhibition, it’s free and Urbis is always worth a look.