Following the death of Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, better known as Jerry Gogosian, much of the public discussion focused on the circumstances of her death rather than the ideas she spent years articulating through her work. This essay examines Helphenstein’s place within a broader history of institutional critique, arguing that the Jerry Gogosian project adapted that tradition to the conditions of social media and the contemporary attention economy.
Drawing on her final interviews, podcasts, social media posts, and artworks, the essay explores Helphenstein’s reflections on beauty, branding, conformity, public identity, and the pressures of life lived online. It also considers her relationship to earlier figures such as Hans Haacke and Andrea Fraser, whose investigations of institutional power anticipated many of the questions she would later confront through digital media.
My contribution to David Carrier’s series “The End of Postmodernism” in the December/January opinions section of the Brooklyn Rail.
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Christopher Lasch,
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Damien Hirst,
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The Honarkar Foundation just published a catalogue for their current exhibition LUMINARIES OF LIGHT: PIONEERS OF CALIFORNIA LIGHT AND SPACE MOVEMENT curated by Genevieve Williams. My essay “From Sfumato to Ganzfelds” argues that in order to remove the barriers between the art and its audiences, California Light and Space artists relied on the same four […]
On the recent spat between the critic Jerry Saltz & the artist Refik Anadol.
Xavier Hufkens gallery (Brussels) recently published a clip of an interview I conducted with Los Angeles-based artist Evan Holloway. The interview was conducted on the occasion of his upcoming exhibition Scry if you want to which runs February 10 through April 1, 2023. We discussed work which ranges from abstract relief paintings Enochian Tablets based in on the writings of 16th […]
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assemblage sculpture,
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