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Profile of Alix McKenna

Articles written for the California Literary Review:

  • Directions: John Gerrard at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
    Posted on 16 Nov 2009 in Art, Art & Design

    So what are today’s landscape artists telling us? In his eponymous show at the Hirshhorn, John Gerrard presents us with scenery that reflects a very different view of America. Rather than inspire us, the Irish artist constructs images that fill us with anxiety, hopelessness and a sense of imminent disaster. And we can’t look away.

  • Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort at The National Museum of the American Indian
    Posted on 03 Nov 2009 in Art, Art & Design, Native American

    The first piece you see upon entering is Shapeshifter (2000), an enormous, abstracted whale skeleton built entirely out of white plastic chairs. Jungen’s leviathan is hung in front of a simple black wall and the contrast of colors intensifies its extraordinary power. Shapeshifter has the pristine, flawless texture of a mass produced object, yet somehow feels organic. You can easily imagine the enormous tale with its graceful, individually-carved vertebrae swinging to life.

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