A short essay written on the occasion of MADSAKI's 2019 exhibition "If I Had a Dream" at Perrotin... more A short essay written on the occasion of MADSAKI's 2019 exhibition "If I Had a Dream" at Perrotin, Hong Kong.
This dissertation is about Andy Warhol and abstraction. It examines the
origins of Warhol’s relat... more This dissertation is about Andy Warhol and abstraction. It examines the origins of Warhol’s relationship with abstract art in the 1940s and 1950s, his uses and misuses of abstractionist picture making strategies in the 1960s, and the cultural contexts that influenced his first two major series of abstract paintings—the Oxidation paintings and the Shadows—in the late–1970s. The current study represents an attempt not just to provide a more complex understanding of Warhol’s engagement with abstract art, but also to reconsider his late abstract paintings according to the more immediate contextual forces that shaped the conditions of their production and reception. The Oxidation paintings and the Shadows designate a culmination of certain, otherwise obscured, trajectories in Warhol’s work as much as they provide an introduction to the themes and methods that would dominate his painting practice during his final decade. By tracing these trajectories from their source, this study aims to participate in the mode of perception that it hopes to describe. Its goal is to provide a glimpse into the shadow history of Warhol’s art.
Published on the occasion of Eric’s Trip, curated by Cynthia Daignault and Mark Loiacono. With wr... more Published on the occasion of Eric’s Trip, curated by Cynthia Daignault and Mark Loiacono. With writing by Cynthia Daignault and Mark Loiacono.
The shadow in art is a double-agent of certainty and doubt, alternatively employed to describe th... more The shadow in art is a double-agent of certainty and doubt, alternatively employed to describe the spatial contours of concrete reality and, conversely, to give visual form to that which is unknowable and otherwise indescribable. In this informal illustrated lecture, art historian Mark Loiacono explores the shifting function and meaning of the shadow in art, from its role in the mythological origin of painting to its current incarnation in Cynthia Daignault's exhibition, Which is the Sun and Which is the Shadow?
Mark Loiacono is an advanced PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and is currently in the process of completing a dissertation titled "Shadow of a Doubt: Andy Warhol's Abstractions." He has held research and curatorial positions at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York; the Dedalus Foundation, New York; and International Art & Artists, Washington, DC.
This event is presented in conjunction with Cynthia Daignault's solo exhibition currently on view at Lisa Cooley through October 20th. Daignault was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and currently lives in New York. She attended Stanford University, and was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 2010. She edited the monograph on Sean Landers, Improbable History, which was published by JRP Ringier in 2011. Her work was featured in a solo show at White Columns in 2011. Daignault is a recipient of the 2011 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant.
THE VIEW
A roundtable conversation about the ideas, topics and kittens of the A-Z with its six ... more THE VIEW
A roundtable conversation about the ideas, topics and kittens of the A-Z with its six writers.
ABOUT THE A-Z
A-Z in an ongoing indexing project. The journal aims to bring together a diverse group of collaborators to present succinct ideas around a topic, event or theme. For Volume 1, Cynthia Daignault, Mark Loaicono, Deirdre O'Dwyer, Alan Reid, Rory Solomon and Elizabeth Spackman share ideas within the context of Cynthia Daignault's latest solo exhibition "Which is the Sun and Which is the Shadow?" Exploring themes of Time, Dreaming, Prison, Perception, Shadow and Light, the dictionary renders a complete picture of the thought matrix beneath the work, despite the intrinsically incomplete and arbitrary nature of the A-Z format.
ABOUT THE WRITERS
Cynthia Daignault was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and currently lives in New York. She attended Stanford University, and was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 2010. She edited the monograph on SeanLanders, Improbable History, which was published by JRP Ringier in 2011. Her solo presentation at White Columns in 2011 was reviewed in Artforum. Daignault is a recipient of the 2011 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant. This event is presented in conjunction with Cynthia Daignault's solo exhibition currently on view at the gallery.
Mark Loiacono is an advanced PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and is currently in the process of completing a dissertation titled "Shadow of a Doubt: Andy Warhol's Abstractions." He has held research and curatorial positions at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York; the Dedalus Foundation, New York; and International Art & Artists, Washington, DC.
Deirdre O'Dwyer is an artist based in Brooklyn. She has known Cynthia Daignault since 2003.
Alan Reid was born in 1976 in Texas and currently lives and works in New York. He holds degrees from the University of North Texas and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Recent exhibitions include Lisa Cooley, New York; A Palazzo, Brescia; Mary Mary, Glasgow; Galerie Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt; Talbot Rice, Edinburgh; and Keno Twins 5, curated by Michael Bauerat Barriera, Torino. He curated the exhibition Airde Pied-à-terre for the galleryin January 2013. Reid was included in the second edition of Phaidon's Vitamin D.
Rory Solomon is a software engineer, artist, and Adjunct Faculty at Parsons where he teaches computer programming to art and design students. In May 2013 he completed an MA in Media Studies at The New School, where his thesis “The Stack: A Media Archaeology of the Computer Program” received an award for Academic Achievement.
Elizabeth Senja Spackman was a 2010-2011 Fulbright Fellow in Creative Writing in Rwanda, where she has taught workshops in creative writing and performance at the National University in Butare and Ishyo Art Centre in Kigali. Elizabeth has an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop. She has worked intensively with Rhodessa Jones’s Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women in the prisons of San Francisco, Pretoria, Johannesburg and Paris. She currently lives and writes in Kigali, Rwanda.
This dissertation is about Andy Warhol and abstraction. It examines the origins of Warhol’s relat... more This dissertation is about Andy Warhol and abstraction. It examines the origins of Warhol’s relationship with abstract art in the 1940s and 1950s, his uses and misuses of abstractionist picture making strategies in the 1960s, and the cultural contexts that influenced his first two major series of abstract paintings—the Oxidation paintings and the Shadows—in the late–1970s. The current study represents an attempt not just to provide a more complex understanding of Warhol’s engagement with abstract art, but also to reconsider his late abstract paintings according to the more immediate contextual forces that shaped the conditions of their production and reception. The Oxidation paintings and the Shadows designate a culmination of certain, otherwise obscured, trajectories in Warhol’s work as much as they provide an introduction to the themes and methods that would dominate his painting practice during his final decade. By tracing these trajectories from their source, this study aims to participate in the mode of perception that it hopes to describe. Its goal is to provide a glimpse into the shadow history of Warhol’s art.
This dissertation is about Andy Warhol and abstraction. It examines the origins of Warhol’s relat... more This dissertation is about Andy Warhol and abstraction. It examines the origins of Warhol’s relationship with abstract art in the 1940s and 1950s, his uses and misuses of abstractionist picture making strategies in the 1960s, and the cultural contexts that influenced his first two major series of abstract paintings—the Oxidation paintings and the Shadows—in the late–1970s. The current study represents an attempt not just to provide a more complex understanding of Warhol’s engagement with abstract art, but also to reconsider his late abstract paintings according to the more immediate contextual forces that shaped the conditions of their production and reception. The Oxidation paintings and the Shadows designate a culmination of certain, otherwise obscured trajectories in Warhol’s work as much as they provide an introduction to the themes and methods that would dominate his painting practice during his final decade. By tracing these trajectories from their source, this study aims to p...
A short essay written on the occasion of MADSAKI's 2019 exhibition "If I Had a Dream" at Perrotin... more A short essay written on the occasion of MADSAKI's 2019 exhibition "If I Had a Dream" at Perrotin, Hong Kong.
This dissertation is about Andy Warhol and abstraction. It examines the
origins of Warhol’s relat... more This dissertation is about Andy Warhol and abstraction. It examines the origins of Warhol’s relationship with abstract art in the 1940s and 1950s, his uses and misuses of abstractionist picture making strategies in the 1960s, and the cultural contexts that influenced his first two major series of abstract paintings—the Oxidation paintings and the Shadows—in the late–1970s. The current study represents an attempt not just to provide a more complex understanding of Warhol’s engagement with abstract art, but also to reconsider his late abstract paintings according to the more immediate contextual forces that shaped the conditions of their production and reception. The Oxidation paintings and the Shadows designate a culmination of certain, otherwise obscured, trajectories in Warhol’s work as much as they provide an introduction to the themes and methods that would dominate his painting practice during his final decade. By tracing these trajectories from their source, this study aims to participate in the mode of perception that it hopes to describe. Its goal is to provide a glimpse into the shadow history of Warhol’s art.
Published on the occasion of Eric’s Trip, curated by Cynthia Daignault and Mark Loiacono. With wr... more Published on the occasion of Eric’s Trip, curated by Cynthia Daignault and Mark Loiacono. With writing by Cynthia Daignault and Mark Loiacono.
The shadow in art is a double-agent of certainty and doubt, alternatively employed to describe th... more The shadow in art is a double-agent of certainty and doubt, alternatively employed to describe the spatial contours of concrete reality and, conversely, to give visual form to that which is unknowable and otherwise indescribable. In this informal illustrated lecture, art historian Mark Loiacono explores the shifting function and meaning of the shadow in art, from its role in the mythological origin of painting to its current incarnation in Cynthia Daignault's exhibition, Which is the Sun and Which is the Shadow?
Mark Loiacono is an advanced PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and is currently in the process of completing a dissertation titled "Shadow of a Doubt: Andy Warhol's Abstractions." He has held research and curatorial positions at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York; the Dedalus Foundation, New York; and International Art & Artists, Washington, DC.
This event is presented in conjunction with Cynthia Daignault's solo exhibition currently on view at Lisa Cooley through October 20th. Daignault was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and currently lives in New York. She attended Stanford University, and was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 2010. She edited the monograph on Sean Landers, Improbable History, which was published by JRP Ringier in 2011. Her work was featured in a solo show at White Columns in 2011. Daignault is a recipient of the 2011 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant.
THE VIEW
A roundtable conversation about the ideas, topics and kittens of the A-Z with its six ... more THE VIEW
A roundtable conversation about the ideas, topics and kittens of the A-Z with its six writers.
ABOUT THE A-Z
A-Z in an ongoing indexing project. The journal aims to bring together a diverse group of collaborators to present succinct ideas around a topic, event or theme. For Volume 1, Cynthia Daignault, Mark Loaicono, Deirdre O'Dwyer, Alan Reid, Rory Solomon and Elizabeth Spackman share ideas within the context of Cynthia Daignault's latest solo exhibition "Which is the Sun and Which is the Shadow?" Exploring themes of Time, Dreaming, Prison, Perception, Shadow and Light, the dictionary renders a complete picture of the thought matrix beneath the work, despite the intrinsically incomplete and arbitrary nature of the A-Z format.
ABOUT THE WRITERS
Cynthia Daignault was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and currently lives in New York. She attended Stanford University, and was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 2010. She edited the monograph on SeanLanders, Improbable History, which was published by JRP Ringier in 2011. Her solo presentation at White Columns in 2011 was reviewed in Artforum. Daignault is a recipient of the 2011 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant. This event is presented in conjunction with Cynthia Daignault's solo exhibition currently on view at the gallery.
Mark Loiacono is an advanced PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and is currently in the process of completing a dissertation titled "Shadow of a Doubt: Andy Warhol's Abstractions." He has held research and curatorial positions at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York; the Dedalus Foundation, New York; and International Art & Artists, Washington, DC.
Deirdre O'Dwyer is an artist based in Brooklyn. She has known Cynthia Daignault since 2003.
Alan Reid was born in 1976 in Texas and currently lives and works in New York. He holds degrees from the University of North Texas and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Recent exhibitions include Lisa Cooley, New York; A Palazzo, Brescia; Mary Mary, Glasgow; Galerie Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt; Talbot Rice, Edinburgh; and Keno Twins 5, curated by Michael Bauerat Barriera, Torino. He curated the exhibition Airde Pied-à-terre for the galleryin January 2013. Reid was included in the second edition of Phaidon's Vitamin D.
Rory Solomon is a software engineer, artist, and Adjunct Faculty at Parsons where he teaches computer programming to art and design students. In May 2013 he completed an MA in Media Studies at The New School, where his thesis “The Stack: A Media Archaeology of the Computer Program” received an award for Academic Achievement.
Elizabeth Senja Spackman was a 2010-2011 Fulbright Fellow in Creative Writing in Rwanda, where she has taught workshops in creative writing and performance at the National University in Butare and Ishyo Art Centre in Kigali. Elizabeth has an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop. She has worked intensively with Rhodessa Jones’s Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women in the prisons of San Francisco, Pretoria, Johannesburg and Paris. She currently lives and writes in Kigali, Rwanda.
This dissertation is about Andy Warhol and abstraction. It examines the origins of Warhol’s relat... more This dissertation is about Andy Warhol and abstraction. It examines the origins of Warhol’s relationship with abstract art in the 1940s and 1950s, his uses and misuses of abstractionist picture making strategies in the 1960s, and the cultural contexts that influenced his first two major series of abstract paintings—the Oxidation paintings and the Shadows—in the late–1970s. The current study represents an attempt not just to provide a more complex understanding of Warhol’s engagement with abstract art, but also to reconsider his late abstract paintings according to the more immediate contextual forces that shaped the conditions of their production and reception. The Oxidation paintings and the Shadows designate a culmination of certain, otherwise obscured, trajectories in Warhol’s work as much as they provide an introduction to the themes and methods that would dominate his painting practice during his final decade. By tracing these trajectories from their source, this study aims to participate in the mode of perception that it hopes to describe. Its goal is to provide a glimpse into the shadow history of Warhol’s art.
This dissertation is about Andy Warhol and abstraction. It examines the origins of Warhol’s relat... more This dissertation is about Andy Warhol and abstraction. It examines the origins of Warhol’s relationship with abstract art in the 1940s and 1950s, his uses and misuses of abstractionist picture making strategies in the 1960s, and the cultural contexts that influenced his first two major series of abstract paintings—the Oxidation paintings and the Shadows—in the late–1970s. The current study represents an attempt not just to provide a more complex understanding of Warhol’s engagement with abstract art, but also to reconsider his late abstract paintings according to the more immediate contextual forces that shaped the conditions of their production and reception. The Oxidation paintings and the Shadows designate a culmination of certain, otherwise obscured trajectories in Warhol’s work as much as they provide an introduction to the themes and methods that would dominate his painting practice during his final decade. By tracing these trajectories from their source, this study aims to p...
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origins of Warhol’s relationship with abstract art in the 1940s and 1950s, his uses and misuses of abstractionist picture making strategies in the 1960s, and the cultural contexts that influenced his first two major series of abstract paintings—the Oxidation paintings and the Shadows—in the late–1970s. The current study represents an attempt not just to provide a more complex understanding of Warhol’s engagement with abstract art, but also to reconsider his late abstract paintings according to the more immediate contextual forces that shaped the conditions of their production and reception. The Oxidation paintings and the Shadows designate a culmination of certain, otherwise obscured, trajectories in Warhol’s work as much as they provide an introduction to the themes and methods that would dominate his painting practice during his final decade. By tracing these trajectories from their source, this study aims to participate in the mode of perception that it hopes to describe. Its goal is to provide a glimpse into the shadow history of Warhol’s art.
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Mark Loiacono is an advanced PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and is currently in the process of completing a dissertation titled "Shadow of a Doubt: Andy Warhol's Abstractions." He has held research and curatorial positions at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York; the Dedalus Foundation, New York; and International Art & Artists, Washington, DC.
This event is presented in conjunction with Cynthia Daignault's solo exhibition currently on view at Lisa Cooley through October 20th. Daignault was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and currently lives in New York. She attended Stanford University, and was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 2010. She edited the monograph on Sean Landers, Improbable History, which was published by JRP Ringier in 2011. Her work was featured in a solo show at White Columns in 2011. Daignault is a recipient of the 2011 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant.
A roundtable conversation about the ideas, topics and kittens of the A-Z with its six writers.
ABOUT THE A-Z
A-Z in an ongoing indexing project. The journal aims to bring together a diverse group of collaborators to present succinct ideas around a topic, event or theme. For Volume 1, Cynthia Daignault, Mark Loaicono, Deirdre O'Dwyer, Alan Reid, Rory Solomon and Elizabeth Spackman share ideas within the context of Cynthia Daignault's latest solo exhibition "Which is the Sun and Which is the Shadow?" Exploring themes of Time, Dreaming, Prison, Perception, Shadow and Light, the dictionary renders a complete picture of the thought matrix beneath the work, despite the intrinsically incomplete and arbitrary nature of the A-Z format.
ABOUT THE WRITERS
Cynthia Daignault was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and currently lives in New York. She attended Stanford University, and was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 2010. She edited the monograph on SeanLanders, Improbable History, which was published by JRP Ringier in 2011. Her solo presentation at White Columns in 2011 was reviewed in Artforum. Daignault is a recipient of the 2011 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant. This event is presented in conjunction with Cynthia Daignault's solo exhibition currently on view at the gallery.
Mark Loiacono is an advanced PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and is currently in the process of completing a dissertation titled "Shadow of a Doubt: Andy Warhol's Abstractions." He has held research and curatorial positions at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York; the Dedalus Foundation, New York; and International Art & Artists, Washington, DC.
Deirdre O'Dwyer is an artist based in Brooklyn. She has known Cynthia Daignault since 2003.
Alan Reid was born in 1976 in Texas and currently lives and works in New York. He holds degrees from the University of North Texas and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Recent exhibitions include Lisa Cooley, New York; A Palazzo, Brescia; Mary Mary, Glasgow; Galerie Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt; Talbot Rice, Edinburgh; and Keno Twins 5, curated by Michael Bauerat Barriera, Torino. He curated the exhibition Airde Pied-à-terre for the galleryin January 2013. Reid was included in the second edition of Phaidon's Vitamin D.
Rory Solomon is a software engineer, artist, and Adjunct Faculty at Parsons where he teaches computer programming to art and design students. In May 2013 he completed an MA in Media Studies at The New School, where his thesis “The Stack: A Media Archaeology of the Computer Program” received an award for Academic Achievement.
Elizabeth Senja Spackman was a 2010-2011 Fulbright Fellow in Creative Writing in Rwanda, where she has taught workshops in creative writing and performance at the National University in Butare and Ishyo Art Centre in Kigali. Elizabeth has an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop. She has worked intensively with Rhodessa Jones’s Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women in the prisons of San Francisco, Pretoria, Johannesburg and Paris. She currently lives and writes in Kigali, Rwanda.
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origins of Warhol’s relationship with abstract art in the 1940s and 1950s, his uses and misuses of abstractionist picture making strategies in the 1960s, and the cultural contexts that influenced his first two major series of abstract paintings—the Oxidation paintings and the Shadows—in the late–1970s. The current study represents an attempt not just to provide a more complex understanding of Warhol’s engagement with abstract art, but also to reconsider his late abstract paintings according to the more immediate contextual forces that shaped the conditions of their production and reception. The Oxidation paintings and the Shadows designate a culmination of certain, otherwise obscured, trajectories in Warhol’s work as much as they provide an introduction to the themes and methods that would dominate his painting practice during his final decade. By tracing these trajectories from their source, this study aims to participate in the mode of perception that it hopes to describe. Its goal is to provide a glimpse into the shadow history of Warhol’s art.
Mark Loiacono is an advanced PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and is currently in the process of completing a dissertation titled "Shadow of a Doubt: Andy Warhol's Abstractions." He has held research and curatorial positions at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York; the Dedalus Foundation, New York; and International Art & Artists, Washington, DC.
This event is presented in conjunction with Cynthia Daignault's solo exhibition currently on view at Lisa Cooley through October 20th. Daignault was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and currently lives in New York. She attended Stanford University, and was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 2010. She edited the monograph on Sean Landers, Improbable History, which was published by JRP Ringier in 2011. Her work was featured in a solo show at White Columns in 2011. Daignault is a recipient of the 2011 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant.
A roundtable conversation about the ideas, topics and kittens of the A-Z with its six writers.
ABOUT THE A-Z
A-Z in an ongoing indexing project. The journal aims to bring together a diverse group of collaborators to present succinct ideas around a topic, event or theme. For Volume 1, Cynthia Daignault, Mark Loaicono, Deirdre O'Dwyer, Alan Reid, Rory Solomon and Elizabeth Spackman share ideas within the context of Cynthia Daignault's latest solo exhibition "Which is the Sun and Which is the Shadow?" Exploring themes of Time, Dreaming, Prison, Perception, Shadow and Light, the dictionary renders a complete picture of the thought matrix beneath the work, despite the intrinsically incomplete and arbitrary nature of the A-Z format.
ABOUT THE WRITERS
Cynthia Daignault was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and currently lives in New York. She attended Stanford University, and was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 2010. She edited the monograph on SeanLanders, Improbable History, which was published by JRP Ringier in 2011. Her solo presentation at White Columns in 2011 was reviewed in Artforum. Daignault is a recipient of the 2011 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant. This event is presented in conjunction with Cynthia Daignault's solo exhibition currently on view at the gallery.
Mark Loiacono is an advanced PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and is currently in the process of completing a dissertation titled "Shadow of a Doubt: Andy Warhol's Abstractions." He has held research and curatorial positions at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York; the Dedalus Foundation, New York; and International Art & Artists, Washington, DC.
Deirdre O'Dwyer is an artist based in Brooklyn. She has known Cynthia Daignault since 2003.
Alan Reid was born in 1976 in Texas and currently lives and works in New York. He holds degrees from the University of North Texas and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Recent exhibitions include Lisa Cooley, New York; A Palazzo, Brescia; Mary Mary, Glasgow; Galerie Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt; Talbot Rice, Edinburgh; and Keno Twins 5, curated by Michael Bauerat Barriera, Torino. He curated the exhibition Airde Pied-à-terre for the galleryin January 2013. Reid was included in the second edition of Phaidon's Vitamin D.
Rory Solomon is a software engineer, artist, and Adjunct Faculty at Parsons where he teaches computer programming to art and design students. In May 2013 he completed an MA in Media Studies at The New School, where his thesis “The Stack: A Media Archaeology of the Computer Program” received an award for Academic Achievement.
Elizabeth Senja Spackman was a 2010-2011 Fulbright Fellow in Creative Writing in Rwanda, where she has taught workshops in creative writing and performance at the National University in Butare and Ishyo Art Centre in Kigali. Elizabeth has an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop. She has worked intensively with Rhodessa Jones’s Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women in the prisons of San Francisco, Pretoria, Johannesburg and Paris. She currently lives and writes in Kigali, Rwanda.