Inhabit and Tanah Air
Also today in PW — in the editors’ choice section of the listings — are my short reviews of curator Sean Stoops‘s apartment show,”Inhabit,” and of Tattfoo Tan‘s show “Tanah Air” at Peng Gallery. Read both here.
Libby wrote about “Inhabit” here. The exhibit is great and as you would imagine, it gives an idea of how to live with art. The pieces I would most like to incorporate into my home are James Johnson‘s “Package,” the peephole onto paradise in the cardboard box; Nadia Hironaka‘s “Lightswitch Dream,” which emits light and motion and is neither a light nor a switch but is more beautiful — and funny — than both, and Clint Takeda‘s “Milky Wink,” a 16 minute-audio track with an outer-space-y vibe that comes with a drawing of an alien inside the plastic cd case. (image is installation shot of Candy Depew‘s “Wisteria” window treatment and Courtney Hager‘s quilt “Cold Feet” in the bedroom. I believe Stoops took this lovely picture.)
Tan’s paintings (you can see many of them at Peng’s website) are bursts of color and energy. The artist, Malasian-born and living in New York for four years now, is a bundle of energy himself –he has an impressive exhibition history in the US and he’s a gallery owner in Staten Island. I wrote about the artist when he was in Peng’s group show of works on paper. Read here.
Tan’s solo show’s a good one. (Left is “Spring Fever”)