Steve Rockwell, Karin Mamma Anderson’s Night Guest , 2021, #12 of 175 of unique copies of dArt magazineSteve Rockwell, Nam June Paik’s Guggenheim Spiral , 2021, #34 of 175 of unique copies of dArt magazine
The first 44 of the 175 edition print edition of dArt magazine began its release to private collectors this July 2021. Its custom-designed frame allows reading access by flipping the hinged polycarbonate “glass” cover from the bottom.
Making Print Editions of dArt Magazine into the Subject of a Single Work of Art
by Steve Rockwell
Steve Rockwell, House of Cards, 2021, computer enhanced rendering of photo
I don’t have an exact date for the genesis of the playing card theme that is featured in this 2021 edition of dArt magazine. It’s possible that the subject as an expressive idea has been simmering in the magma of my unconscious from the very start of my art making. With the crust of culture now universally in its brittle phase, the card idea seems to have bubbled up through the fissures.
Stop and take note of Small Standing Tall a noteworthy group exhibition of 12 artists’ works curated by Jen Dragon at Joyce Goldstein Gallery in Chatham, New York. It’s a teasingly suggestive show that’s been put together with evident sophistication. Experientially Small Standing Tall contains a multitude of diverse, small-sized artworks that, somehow, loom large in your consciousness as a viewer while you’re in the gallery space and lingers within you long after you’ve left the gallery premises. I say “teasingly” as the works in the exhibition give off more energy than they consume, as the compactness of the works is deceptive.
Covid-19 has smacked down our opportunity to congregate. A resulting casualty was Miami’s 2020 art bacchanal.
Fair and venue cancellations have rapidly spawned OVR (online viewing rooms). Ouch. Tech’s solution is gimmickry compared to centuries of human UX (user experience) with nature. Can any screen deliver the ultra-high infinite resolution of in-person reality?