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Wanda Koop: Magnetic Field

The Brooklyn Rail ArtSeen October 2025

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Magnetic Field began in a forest. Wanda Koop was looking at the trees near her studio in Riding Mountain, Manitoba, when she noticed that they seemed to contain a message. Two trees angled towards each other, and another just to their right, appeared to spell those absolutely notorious letters: AI.

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Carol Wainio at Arsenal Contemporary Art New York

ARTnews - Francesca Aton
May 1st, 2024

As art fairs flood New York—starting with Frieze and followed by Independent—with a myriad of notable auctions, as well as the Whitney Biennial, the scene is definitely bustling this spring.

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Carol Wainio: Recent Paintings and Drawings

The Brooklyn Rail - Ann McCoy
May 1st, 2024

In Carol Wainio’s pictorial realm the fabled creatures of Jean de La Fontaine and Aesop, haberdashery-clad rabbits, and children plucked from Victorian illustrated postcards dwell in forests that are part Gustave Doré, part Jean-Antoine Watteau, and are expressionistically rendered.

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What to Cook This Week

By Sam Sifton - New York Times
Dec 11, 2022

‘‘Now, it’s nothing to do with headcheese or tofu skins, but The Times’s Blake Gopnik put me on to this Corri-Lynn Tetz show at Arsenal Contemporary in Manhattan. Blake’s right. The paintings are terrifying.”

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What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now

Roberta Smith, Blake Gopnik, Will Heinrich and Max Lakin - New York Times
Dec 1, 2022

‘‘Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Start in the Upper East Side with Lynne Drexler’s paintings. Then head to Chelsea for Rudolf Stingel’s Conceptualism with a sense of humor. Afterward, see Nicky Nodjoumi’s “Miami” paintings in NoLIta, and Corri-Lynn Tetz’s terrifying images of girlhood in TriBeCa.

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Review: Suzy Lake

Canadian Art, by Tausif Noor
Mar 9, 2020

“The first truth is the form,” instructs a deadpan, disembodied male voice in Suzy Lake’s 1975 video The Natural Way to Draw, in which the artist, caked in a layer of white paint, shades lines and contours across her face, pausing briefly to take puffs of her cigarette. 

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Suzy Lake

ArtForum, by Zack Hatfield
Mar, 2020

One of the first things Suzy Lake did after moving to Montreal in 1968 from her native Detroit—a city whose fiery upheavals had recently jolted her into political consciousness—was enroll in mime school at the Théâtre de Quat’Sous.

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We Need to Normalize Abortion

Paper Magazine, by Savannah Hardman
Jan 10, 2020

As women's access to reproductive care is dwindling across areas of the US, a group of A-list artists is joining forces to combat the increasingly restrictive legislation surrounding abortion.

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Goings on about town - Art - Suzy Lake

The New Yorker
Jan, 2020

This influential feminist artist, who moved from Detroit to Canada in the late nineteen-sixties, makes her New York solo début with a powerful show of performance-based photographs and videos. 

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Benoît Maire Turns Philoshophy into Art

The Last Magazine
May 9, 2018

There are two types of voices, according to the ancient Greeks: the articulated voice, phōnē énarthros, which is clear, and the confused voice, phōnē synkechyméne, where articulation is lacking,” says Benoît Maire.

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Juliana Cerqueira Leite

Artforum, by Rachel Churner
Jan 19, 2019

During the inaugural Antarctic Biennale in 2017, held aboard research vessels surrounded by icy desolation, the artist Juliana Cerqueira Leite met the architect Barbara Imhof while working on shee (Self-Deploying Habitat for Extreme Environments), inflatable housing for inhospitable terrain.

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Adieu à Nicola L, Pop Art Icon

Cultured Magazine
Jan 10, 2019

Over an extensive career, Nicola L journeyed from Morocco, where she was born, to Paris, the city where she first encountered Nouveau Réalisme to great influence, to New York, where she took roost in the Chelsea Hotel, and Ibiza, whose sun-kissed coast inspired the artist’s longstanding concern for the skin’s warm envelopment.

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