Jason Laning

In 1859, one of the stars of the Hudson River School of painting, Frederic Church, unveiled his massive landscape, Heart of the Andes, complete with theatrical lighting, to an audience of New Yorkers eager to pay an admission price just to sit in the presence of the work’s profound... continue reading on Gothamist

With frat-boy-like, testosterone-driven intensity, artist Hubert Dobler has raced his Honda CB550 Four motorbike around the inside of Jack the Pelican Presents in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In addition to some gentle descriptive nudging from the press release, we know this from the evidence on the temporary floor – carefully constructed... continue reading on Gothamist

In Team's final exhibition at their Chelsea gallery space (before relocating to SoHo), Dawn Mellor's We Hope You Choke takes a small sidestep from her brashly acidic, satirical portrayals of celebrity-dom to inject vitriolic political and social anger into a messy amalgam of abstract allegory. The resulting paintings avoid... continue reading on Gothamist