The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh is currently showing The End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing, which explores the work of artists utilizing the drawn line in new ways.  While contemporary art practice is overwhelmingly defined by the moving image and new media this exhibition proposes that current explorations in drawing merit attention.  The End of the Line rejects drawing’s secondary status and complex art[…..]

In its last week at Boots Contemporary Arts Space in St.Louis is the exhibition The 7th Annual Midwestern Assorted Produce Snuff Shorts Film Triennial. The group show consists of video and performance works by the artists Benjamin Bellas, Clinton King, Noelle Mason, Magdalen Wong, Justin Cooper and Ross Moreno, whom often collaborate under the curatorial moniker “i.e.” The videos on display range from Noelle Mason’s[…..]

Bari Ziperstein assembles all manner of figurines, furniture and various other found objects to create elegant yet convoluted documentations of time and place. Setting up antique store-like vignettes, her site specific installations of ceramic and mixed-media sculpture pieces seem at once all too common (owing to the banality of the original parts they are made up of) and wildly whimsical. Recently, Ziperstein’s work was on[…..]