Book Reviews by Leah Reynolds
Artefact 8, Oct 31, 2016
Nancy Princenthal's biography significantly broadens the narrative on Agnes Martin's life and art... more Nancy Princenthal's biography significantly broadens the narrative on Agnes Martin's life and art from the perception of " desert sage " or " modern mystic, " a discursive thread that undergirds much of the art criticism and past curatorship on Martin. Princenthal intricates the myth of Martin's persona with the undeniable ambition and pragmatism of her character that led to her becoming one of the most important figures amongst twentieth-century artists pursuing pure abstraction. The artist led a long and full life in her ninety-two years, and Princenthal orchestrates an impressive weaving together of biographical records with insightful analyses of Martin's paintings, drawing upon her critical expertise on the tensions between abstraction and the semantics of representation so central to Martin's output.
Exhibition Programmes by Leah Reynolds
Review of major retrospective on artist Agnes Martin, on view at Tate Modern, 3 June - 11 October... more Review of major retrospective on artist Agnes Martin, on view at Tate Modern, 3 June - 11 October, 2015, at Kunstsammlung Nordrheim-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 7 November 2015 - 6 March, 2016, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 24 April - 11 September, 2016, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 7 October 2016 - 11 January 2017. Published in Enclave Review 14, Summer 2016, pp.13-14. Enclave Review is a contemporary arts reviews sheet based in Cork, Ireland.
A mediation on the theme of language in three works by visual-arts based moving-image artists Jen... more A mediation on the theme of language in three works by visual-arts based moving-image artists Jenny Brady, Sarah Browne, and Eoghan Ryan. The text was commissioned to announce the launch of MExIndex: a searchable and evolving online database with free access to key information and writing on experimental and visual arts-based moving image works by Irish artists.
Published in part two of a three-part publication series in 2016 by Dublin City Gallery The Hugh ... more Published in part two of a three-part publication series in 2016 by Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane on the occasion of “No More Fun and Games: Feminist Parasite Institution,” by Jesse Jones, 11 February - 26 June 2016. As part of the exhibition a feminist curatorial collective was founded to explore the possibilities of a Feminist Parasite Institution. This text was inspired by the discussions of the collective and echoes the curatorial decisions made in exhibiting the work of the female artists from the Hugh Lane collection, one of which was Agnes Martin's "Untitled No. 7" (1980).
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