Becky hunter https://www.beckyhunter.co.uk Wed, 25 Apr 2018 06:56:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Artist, curator and critic Jane Boyer interviews Becky on her research and writing, and her intentions for CONCEPT PLUS OBJECT https://www.beckyhunter.co.uk/2018/04/25/artist-curator-and-critic-jane-boyer-interviews-becky-on-her-research-and-writing-and-her-intentions-for-concept-plus-object/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 06:56:20 +0000 http://www.beckyhunter.co.uk/?p=23 Read More Read More

]]> I’ve repeatedly failed at making art, but my critical interest in Martin has only deepened. I observe in much of her work (not just the black paintings) a tense, disquieting affect, detailed in this review (2009). Through archival research, I discovered that before her major 1973 retrospective at ICA Philadelphia, responses to Martin’s work were far more ambivalent than those that came after. Reviewers, collectors and curators mention anxiety, exhaustion, confusion and even laughter in the face of her paintings – not the contemplative calm we associate with them now. I’m asking why that was.

Jane Boyer interviewed me for my Concept Plus Object writing residency, 1 July, 2012.

]]> A room of their own https://www.beckyhunter.co.uk/2018/04/25/a-room-of-their-own/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 06:55:39 +0000 http://www.beckyhunter.co.uk/?p=21 Amanda Wagner previewed Reading Room in print and online for the Philadelphia Daily News, 6 July, 2012.

]]> Duett: Becky Hunter makes her curatorial debut, by Ana Finel Honigman https://www.beckyhunter.co.uk/2018/04/25/duett-becky-hunter-makes-her-curatorial-debut-by-ana-finel-honigman/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 06:55:12 +0000 http://www.beckyhunter.co.uk/?p=19 Read More Read More

]]> For “Duett,” her curatorial debut, critic Becky Hunter demonstrated how an excellent curator combines the skills of a scholar and yenta. The match Hunter made between Berlin-based British artist, Alanna Lawley, and Philadelphian photographer, Matt Giel, yielded an intelligent, creative, conversation about photography, distance, abstract communication and curatorship. In the spirit of today’s Internet age, the artists never met in 3D. Instead, they inspired each other remotely (via Sykpe, GChat and email) and collaborated together on a series of interconnected multi-media art-works at Philidelphia’s Grizzly Grizzly Gallery. Here, the three collaborators reflect on the process and its ramifications…

]]> Little Berlin show devoted to art and writing https://www.beckyhunter.co.uk/2018/04/25/little-berlin-show-devoted-to-art-and-writing/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 06:54:46 +0000 http://www.beckyhunter.co.uk/?p=17 Read More Read More

]]> Check your literal-mindedness at the door. “Reading Room: Intersections Between Art & Writing,” a group show organized by Becky Huff Hunter for Little Berlin, reveals itself slowly. Eventually, though, the boundaries between the two mediums of expression begin to blur — and fascinatingly so. Artists can be strikingly original writers and vice versa. If you remember the Narrative Art movement that grew out of Conceptual Art and had its heyday in the 1970s — and counted William Wegman, Bill Beckley, and Peter Hutchinson among its ranks of storytelling artists — you’re a step ahead of the game.

Read more at the Philadelphia Inquirer, review by Edie Newhall published 22 July, 2012.

]]> Quoted in Triangulation & I Like This Art https://www.beckyhunter.co.uk/2018/04/25/quoted-in-triangulation-i-like-this-art/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 06:54:19 +0000 http://www.beckyhunter.co.uk/?p=15 My article on Zachary Davis’s show at Extra Extra, Philadelphia, has been quoted in Triangulation and I Like This Art. Thanks!

About Becky
Becky Huff Hunter is an art writer, researcher, and communications project manager based in Philadelphia, USA.

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