The Amory Show 2010

This was my first year attending The Amory Show in NYC...it was an overload of sense giving access to art from all around the world. Even without attending just knowing about the even is overwhelming...actually being there is utterly exhausting.

A couple of artist really stood out to me:
Berlin based artist Susanne M. Winterling had a video at the booth of Daniel Reich Gallery. I almost walked passed because the screen was placed so low to the ground...but I noticed the slow stepping rhythm of three girls, each with one hand upon the others shoulder...stepping to the beat of a nestalgic song. They were dressed in Native American garb...they transitioned into moment into a green grassy field, a hawk in on one of the girls shoulders now...I am captivated. The way Winterling uses sound and rhythm reminds me of something I used to know, bringing reference to 1920-50's film and her use of symbols are direct and but quiet.

The following clip is from her show at Daniel Reich Gallery back in 2008 titled: All Tomorrow's Parties: Stage


Installation view of “Untitled (Play Winterling)”
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Another artist I took time to view again was Ori Gersht an Israeli artist who works in photography and film. I had seen his work a couple weeks before...but to watch the film Envaders (2009) again this time was even more breath taking. The dialogue in the film states that the man you see slumped over the bed...walking down a windy pathway all day and night is a lost angle...wondering...forever fighting the elements and time.

here is one of his videos...but it is very much contrasted from the one I just described.




One more artist that I found interesting was Eve Sussman "A Parliament of Rooks" of which two screen scanned slowly across a field of crows



Helena Almeida




Shaun Gladwell