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Geoff Wichert

Geoff Wichert objects to the term critic. He would rather be thought of as a advocate on behalf of those he writes about.
Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Phantom Limbs and Artistic Ties: The Collaborative Spirit of Buehler and Mantle

It’s well known that sensations like flavors, odors, and sights tend to be unpleasant on first encounter—a mechanism that protects individuals from unknown dangers—but that with further experience they may come to seem neutral, even positively delightful. Captured in a single image, the phenomenon might take the form […]

Exhibition Reviews | Featured | Visual Arts

Karl Haendel’s “Less Bad” is a Study in Vulnerability and Self-Reflection

A large drawing—large by most standards, but not by comparison with others hanging nearby—titled “Hazel’s Room” places an ancient symbol of menace, a wolf, at large in an up-to-date child’s bedroom. It’s every bit the nightmare image it appears: Hazel is the artist’s daughter, still an infant when […]

Exhibition Reviews | Featured | Visual Arts

“In Memory” at UMOCA Challenges our Understanding of Time and Art

The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s many virtues—currently under threat from short-sighted development—include its multi-level architecture, incorporating a vast space that still allows for intimate encounters. Right now, one grand wall of the main gallery is devoted to the unmatched video genius of William Kentridge, a South African […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Margaret Curtis’ ‘This, too’ Burns with the Urgency of Environmental and Social Crises

“I think that if a song isn’t about something, it ought to be an instrumental.” With that advice, spoken often in concert, the great American jazz poet and performer Gil Scott-Heron, author of “Winter in America,” “Johannesburg,” and “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” never failed to bring […]

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