EXHIBITIONS IN THE PRESS
Read: “Visit This: Dorothea Rockburne’s Geometric Abstractions, on View in London,” by Laura Bannister, The New York Times, November 28, 2024. Read here.
EXHIBITIONS IN THE PRESS
Read: “Dorothea Rockburne – New York great’s first big UK show all comes down to one long, mesmerising line,” by Adrian Searle, The Guardian, November 27, 2024. Read here.
EXHIBITIONS IN THE PRESS
Read: “At 95, Artist Dorothea Rockburne Is Still Using Math to Explore the Sublime,” by Grace Edquist, Vogue, November 25, 2024. Read here.
RECENTLY PUBLISHED MONOGRAPH
Read: Robin F. Williams: We’ve Been Expecting You Exhibition Catalogue, with an essay by Lola Kramer.
Purchase here.
The Columbus Museum of Art is pleased to organize and present the first solo institutional exhibition featuring the work of the Columbus-born, Brooklyn-based artist, Robin F. Williams (born 1984). The exhibition includes work from a seventeen-year timeframe, highlighting recurring themes in Williams’ work including the body, gender and identity expression, digital trends and artificial intelligence, folklore, and the supernatural. These paintings trace intriguing changes in Williams’ oeuvre while highlighting the dynamism within her technical process.
Williams’ early paintings reference art historical styles and genres with wry, dreamlike twists. Many of these works challenge gender expectations, for example, men in repose and women engaging in pleasurable activities without guilt. Film is another signature theme in Williams’ work. In one such passage, renderings of female actresses from iconic movies like Rosemary’s Baby and Pulp Fiction are captured in still-shot frames and re-named “Siri” after Apple Inc.’s digital assistant, thereby commenting on the feminization of AI technology. Throughout, figures are presented as fully conscious of the viewer, evidenced in both moments of cool detachment, as well as mocking confrontation.
Robin F. Williams: We’ve Been Expecting You is the artist’s first exhibition that includes works spanning from her early career to the present day. By positioning the painted figures as active agents “expecting” the viewer, the artist prompts the visitor to engage with the experience of being perceived by these intriguing and skillfully rendered paintings.
Hardcover, 144 pages.
IN CONVERSATION
Listen: Lotus L. Kang with Lola Kramer and Jack Schneider at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, January 2024. Watch here.
IN CONVERSATION
Emerging Ideas within Painting and Virtual Reality: A Conversation
October 7, 2021
The National Arts Club, New York
[Art & Tech] Join us for a conversation between artist Rachel Rossin and independent curator Lola Kramer. Rossin and Kramer will discuss and demonstrate emerging ideas within painting and virtual reality in the ever-expanding field of fine art, recent technological discoveries, and methods of interaction within the arts. Rachel Rossin is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist who has gained recognition for her exhibitions that blend oil painting, sculpture, 3D animation and virtual reality. Over the years, Rossin’s work has exhibited with K11 Art Museum (Shanghai), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Frist Art Museum, Akron Art Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, and The New Museum. Lola Kramer is an independent curator and writer based in New York City. Previously, she was the Curatorial Director of the contemporary art non-profit Wide Rainbow. Kramer received her MA at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and presented an exhibition and thesis on the work of Lawrence Weiner and has worked with the Whitney Museum, the Hammer Museum, and the Swiss Institute.
Photo Credit: Morgan Connellee / Photo Credit: Art21
AT THE MOVIES
Watch: I had the opportunity to collaborate on historical research for director Lisa Rovner’s documentary SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS (2020). Humbled by this narrative and grateful to have been involved with this project, I encourage you to jump to the link below for more information.
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