art review - Hackney Citizen

Martin Puryear @ Parasol Unit, exhibition review: ‘slavery’s tumour-like presence’

In time for October and Black History Month, Martin Puryear’s large-scale, impeccably crafted forms present a unique perspective on African American history and its emotional themes

Author: Hackney Citizen

"I too am free": Martin Puryear's Big Phrygian (2010 - 2014). Photograph by Ron Amstutz. © Martin Puryear, courtesy Matthew M

Alice Neel, Uptown @ Victoria Miro, exhibition review: charming, intelligent New York portraits

A new exhibition at the Islington gallery showcases the diversity of Neel’s astute and penetrative portraiture

Author: Hackney Citizen

"Nonchalant confidence and pride": Pregnant Maria by Alice Neel. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London and Victoria Miro, L

Maeve Brennan, The Drift @ Chisenhale Gallery, review – Lebanon’s objects of desire

In this new film installation currently showing at the Chisenhale Gallery, the artist and filmmaker’s camera pens a love letter to painstakingly reconstructed Lebanese artefacts

Author: Hackney Citizen

A shot from Maeve Brennan’s The Drift (2017). Produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London and Spike Island, Bristol. Commissioned

Elger Esser, Morgenland @ Parasol Unit: celebrating the ‘heavenly luminosity’ of Lebanon and beyond

The German artist uses his hazily romantic photography to add a fresh perspective to portrayals of Middle Eastern landscapes

Author: Hackney Citizen

Detail from Enfeh I, Lebanon (2005). Photograph: Elger Esser.

Do Ho Suh, Passage/s @ Victoria Miro Gallery review – ‘unquestionably masterful technique’

The show evokes both the transience of an artist’s nomadic life and the intimacy of domestic calm

Author: Hackney Citizen

Do Ho Suh’s Entrance, Unit G5, Union Wharf, 23 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7SB, UK, 2016. Courtesy the Artist, STPI and Victoria