She's looking good
Thursday, May 15, 2008
The new Michael Stevenson gallery opens this evening, in the same building as the Goodman and the Bell-Roberts'. Branching out to stick together in one big malltastic artopia.LATER THAT NIGHT.......
Yes it is all true, it is very glamorous, and the art is big and it is glossy. Unlike the strange poo-brown architectural anomaly which housed the old Michael Stevenson, this one is in a good traditional industrial building that makes sense and provides the opportunity for a toned and glitzy street entrance worthy of Manhattan, although not usually found in, say, a run down crack hood on the Lower East Side, which would be the equivalent of Woodstock.
What I really do like about Michael Stevenson's general attitude to layout, though, is instead of having one huge open space that encourages you to look at the other people, he breaks it up into smaller spaces which foreground the fact (easily forgotten) that you are here to look at the art. It's assertive. And one is grateful when anyone makes the point that art can actually be worth looking at.
Labels: Michael Stevenson
posted by Vince Condesini at 9:54 AM
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