New Formations 74 reviews section (2011)

Anthurium A Caribbean Studies Journal

UCLA Historical Journal, 1983

formations discussed had already taken place. The historical validity of the interpretation presented is therefore rather limited.

Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 1983

What follows is a draft piece on one of the installations which Sudarshan Reddy exhibited at Galarie Krinzinger, Vienna, in October 2012. The piece is not based on viewing the installation when it was in exhibition. The exhibition-catalogue itself offers certain perspectives through the apparatus of the camera and the viewing thus executed. The limitations of the piece are partly due to its ‘third-remove’ from the installation. The draft presents a response that is not of someone trained in art history or art-journalism. Shetty’s work challenges one to respond, and I sense that there is a certain kind of calmness in the seemingly violent wrenching and ruptures his work involves. His work impels one to meditate on the materiality of formations and the churn of their trans-formations.

Antiquity

Berghahn Books, 2022

With the abrupt spring thaw of 2017, the Saint Lawrence River, which circles around the island of Montreal, rose from its banks, fl ooding many villages on its shore, including the Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) Indigenous community of Kanehsatà:ke. In neighboring settler towns, the Canadian Army was in charge of relief work, but for Kanehsatà:ke, whose memory was still scarred by the 1990 Oka Crisis-a two-month-long standoff between Mohawk warriors and the Canadian Army over the construction of a golf course on an ancestral cemetery-requesting assistance from the army was out of the question. Kanehsatà:ke community members thus called for volunteers to help clean up the rubbish that was left in the yards. Upon arriving there I found a large group of French Canadians who seemed fairly well organized, having brought their own shovels and pickup trucks. Many were wearing the same T-shirt depicting two hands shaking around planet Earth, under the printed word L'Alliance. I overheard the conversation they were painstakingly trying to hold with English-speaking Mohawks, attempting to overcome the age-old enmity between Mohawks and French settlers ever since explorer Samuel de Champlain slew three Mohawk chiefs with his harquebus upon their fi rst encounter, in 1609. "Doesn't it feel good to be here together, having both lived on this land for so long?" said one of the members of L'Alliance, "especially when [Canadian Prime Minister Justin] Trudeau is opening the border for all those immigrants to sweep in." Quick research revealed that the so-called L'Alliance was but an offshoot of the Storm Alliance, an ultranationalist anti-immigration group who made headlines when they staged protests at the US-Canada border This open access edition has been made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of Knowledge Unlatched.

Contribution to the Clark Art Institute's volume, "Art History and Emergency"

Boletim IG-USP. Publicação Especial, 1995

Fields and Formations, 2021

What surprised us all was a virus that would have such an impact on our world and would threaten our efforts to produce and deliver exhibitions to the public. As a result, the presentation of Fields and Formations suddenly became uncertain. Two years later, The Delaware Contemporary is appreciative of the opportunity to publish this critical catalogue, showcase this groundbreaking exhibition, and provide novice art viewers and experts alike with a sensational experience. The selected works, now representing both women and non-binary artists, arouse strong emotional and even physical reactions. The exhibition produces a visitor experience that is meditative, provocative, and transcendent. At a time when we are all looking inward to find a place for contemplation, Fields and Formations provides a needed recess from daily concerns and creates a space for resolve. The selection of artists was brilliant, as was consideration for the artworks' presentation within our challenging industrial galleries filled with steel i-beams and unusually spaced doorways. For The Delaware Contemporary, it was an honor to give a platform to regional artists of such significant accomplishment who deserve more critical recognition, especially those artists who have spent much of their careers living and working in our region. A special thanks to Hileman for her expertise and innovation in rethinking history. Through Fields and Formations, she pushes forward scholarship to more closely examine the aesthetic relationships in these artists' approaches to form, fields of color, and transformation of familiar materials. A partnership with the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, our contemporary art anchor in the southern part of the Mid-Atlantic, was the "icing on the cake." It was a privilege to work with this highly regarded organization to significantly expand the visibility of the show. Hileman's commitment to women, lgbtq+ artists, and artists of color was in evidence long before it became fashionable. For two decades, first as a curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and then as Head of the Contemporary Department at The Baltimore Museum of Art, Hileman's concern for addressing social, political, and gender disparity runs through all her exhibitions, including the present show of abstractions, Fields and Formations.

1994

, of the Publications staff of The UCLA Institute of Archaeology for their help in the preparation of this book. A special thanks goes to Janet Lever, whose tracing provided the cover art. DAVID s. WHITLEY LAWRENCE L. LOENDORF In the far west, Cressman (1937) for Oregon, and Heizer and Baumhoff (1962) for Nevada and eastern California, provided the most significant major studies. Heizer and Baumhoff's (1962) research has probably been the most influential in North Americ~ since Steward's. Their research was heavily influenced by Steward, as well as by the evolutionist writings of French 'primitive mentality' rather than reliable ethnography" (Lewis-Williams 1982:430) and, by about mid-century, it had been dis

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