Remember actor/singer/dancer Joel Grey (from Cabaret)? Well, over the last couple of years he's been busily carving out another string to his bow by taking camera phone photos. Joel Grey: 1.3: New Color Images just opened at the Steven Kasher Gallery.
One film from the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival that never made it onto anyone's must-see lists was J.B.Ghuman's Spork. A young adolescent (an outstanding performance from Savannah Stehlin), Spork is brought up in a trailer park by her older brother after her mom dies, For some, this comedy/musical may prove just too cutsy, derivative and naive. But soul, wit and imagination abound in this film. If you're the sort of kid (for real or grown-up) who sorta wanted to like the escapism and empowerment of High School Musical but was sorta repelled cringing at the film's commodity conformity, then Spork will be for you.
An alternative to that might be the videos of Nina Yuen having just closed at Lombard Fried. "My work ...engages with the production of false personal memories and with the stirring disagreements about the past in the accounts of my family and friends," writes Yuen. There's little that smacks of 'art-house' in this work rather it's the honest intelligent play of a child attempting to create a context for the tiny observations that he/she/it knows to be true but can't quite comprehend. The gallery's previous show, equally worth the visit, was Iranian-American artist Tala Madani who also showed at Saatchi and Pilar Corrias in London.
Nina Yuen & Sabina Mar
TV spot
Silently watching Nina's face on a camera phone (3.2) is also quite beautiful and fascinating.
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