Joanne Mattera Art Blog

Inventing Downtown
Joanne Mattera Art Blog

Joanne Mattera photoblogs a tour of the recent exhibition Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965 at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University. Mattera notes: “Looking back, as this exhibition allows you to do, you see how important these cooperative efforts were, not only for the artists–many of whom went on to stellar […]

Material Pleasure
Joanne Mattera Art Blog

Part two in a three-part photoblog series (also view part one and part three) of works, recently on view in New York. The posts “emphasize the range of art made with unusual materials, or of conventional materials used in service to an unlikely end…”