Trent’s Top Gallery Picks—June 2013
Titularly yet tentatively, this three-person exhibition is about psychedelic mushrooms, but only one piece depicts toadstools. That work is Chris Martin’s “Untitled” (2013), a freestanding vinyl screen, more than 15 feet wide and 10 feet tall, portraying a woman foraging in the woods.
Trent’s Top Gallery Picks: Jack Early at Southfirst
Jack Early gets super-duper hippie-dippy in these two stupendous shows. Pop psychedelia from the late 1960s and early 70s permeates everything—and even gets inside our ears.
“iPhone 6” Debuts in Brooklyn
“One day, we will live in a world where our smartphones are smarter than us,” says artist Leon Reid IV, “and we will be the devices for our smartphones.”
Trent’s Top Gallery Picks—March 2012
What makes these works most magical is Altas’s power to turn six boring numerals into things of grace and near limitless capacity. If Luhring Augustine keeps mounting exhibitions as good as this one, we should hope they stick around Bushwick for a long time
Trent’s Top Gallery Picks—October 2011
THE PEOPLE’S ART COLLECTIVE, “NO SLEEP ‘TIL BROOKLYN” The Bogart Salon, 56 Bogart St., through 10/17 At the center of the Bogart Salon, toys and trash make up a sprawling model of two…
Trent’s Top Gallery Picks—January 2011
Trent’s Top Gallery Picks: Knit Nature, Rite Stuff, Yore in Japan
