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Artsy: 6 AAPI Artists Reflect on the Spike in Anti-Asian Violence

Mar 30, 2021 Artsy's latest editorial addresses the recent spike in racially motivated attacks against Asians in the United States. Throughout U.S. history, Asians have been "used as scapegoats, from the whitewashing of railroad construction to Japanese internment to the murder of Vincent Chin to the "China virus" - all the while being labeled the "model minority". Read more

PULPO GALLERY now represents Judy Rifka

Rifka will present a solo exhibition at the gallery in September 2021 Mar 30, 2021 PULPO GALLERY now represents Judy Rifka. In her practice, Rifka explores space as an emotional connection and the form or body that comes out of it. Rifka has exhibited at two Whitney Biennials, Documenta 7, the infamous Times Square show as well as the inaugural PS1 exhibit. Her retrospective "A Glance Through The Rearview Mirror" will run from September 24 to October 31, 2021. Read more

Rulton Fyder Conceptual Art Project blocked by Twitter

Mar 29, 2021 In yet another surprise move, Twitter has suspended Rulton Fyder's account shortly after he started a conceptual art project aimed at having a dialogue with Yves Klein's Zone des Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle. Klein's work was a performance that involved the sale of empty space (the Immaterial Zone), the ownership of which was documented in the form of a cheque and exchanged for gold. To complete the piece, the buyer would go on to burn the cheque with Klein throwing half of the gold into the Seine river. Read more

Rulton Fyder interviewed for New York Times article

Why Did Someone Pay $ 560,000 for a Picture of My Column? Mar 27, 2021 New York Times journalist Kevin Roose reached out to Rulton Fyder to get his opinion on why he bid on the NYT column NFT. Fyder concluded, that NFTs might someday have historical significance and were creating a "new digital value system" that was worth taking seriously Read more

The DIY magic of Art-Rite

features artwork by Judy Rifka Mar 26, 2021 In an article for Document Journal titled "The DIY magic of Art-Rite, the magazine that redevined the 1970s art scene" Miss Rosen writes: "Art-Rite, as it would soon be known, came into being when the triumvirate applied for the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 1973. Still in its formative years, the ISP, which would later count Félix González-Torres, Kathryn Bigelow, and Jenny Holzer among its alumni, only offered programs for artists and art historians. “Our challenge was irresistible: What, no art critics?” Robinson says. “We were accepted, with our project being to launch Art-Rite magazine, made welcome in both divisions of the ISP, and off we went.”" Read more

NFT ArtForum: Oral History Interview with Rulton Fyder

by Emily Cobel Mar 19, 2021 Art Critic Emily Cobel interviewed Rulton Fyder as part of the Archives of Contemporary NFT Art Oral History Program. The program was started in 2021 to document the history of the NFT arts worldwide, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators. A transcript of the interview which was recorded on March 13, 2021 can be found at NFT ArtForum. Read more

Insider.com: Rulton Fyder might be Richard Prince

Article by Moises Mendez II Mar 17, 2021 Moises Mendes II reports that rapper Azealia Banks and artist Ryder Ripps have ended their relationship three weeks after getting engaged. In the article, which was published on Insider.com on Monday, he also reports on the widely publicized sale of their audio NFT to Rulton Fyder for $ 17.000 earlier this month: "The NFT was purchased by an anonymous buyer named Rulton Fyder, which many have speculated might be artist Richard Prince." Read more

Musikexpress: Rulton Fyder NFT about to be amongst most expensive artworks ever sold?

Article by Daniel Justus Mar 15, 2021 German magazine musikexpress discusses Rulton Fyder's acquisition and recontextualization of Azelia Banks audio NFT, asking if it might become the fourth most expensive artwork ever sold, as was hinted by Azelia Banks herself in an instagram post to her 720 thousand followers. Read more

NFT Marketplace Rarible Censors Rulton Fyder

Mar 14, 2021 Rarible, a digital collectibles marketplace, has censored its highest grossing artist Rulton Fyder in a very controversial move on March 13. By removing his verification badge, his artist page and artworks are no longer searchable on the platform. To date, Rarible has not provided any explanation for the move. NFTs have been the talk of town, culminating in Beeple's "Everydays: The First 5000 Days" selling for $ 69.346.250 in an online auction at Christie's last week. Yet, most artwork commentators will be quick to point out that the collectibles for sale at marketplaces like Rarible mostly consist of animated cartoons, memes, frogs or even caricatures of Elon Musk. Read more

Oral history interview with Rulton Fyder

by Emily Cobel, for the Archives of NFT ArtForum Mar 13, 2021 An interview of Rulton Fyder conducted on Mar 13, 2021, by Emily Cobel, for the Archives of NFT ArtForum. This... Read more

The Artlander: Rediscovering Judy Rifka

Judy Rifka beats Beeple to the cover of Artlander 56 Mar 13, 2021 The American artist, Brooklyn-born, Judy Rifka, was the quintessential art star of her generation. Every major critic who saw her paintings in the 70's and 80's wrote glowingly about them. Her contribution to painting is indisputable. She was best friends with Keith Haring, was a lover and student of Ron Gorchov, is the ex-wife of painter David Reed (now at Gagosian) and is the mother of NYC writer, John Reed. She's in 26 museums around the world, was in two Whitney Biennials, participated in the infamous Times Square show and the inaugural PS1 exhibit. And then by 1993, with the closing of her Blue-Chip gallery, Brooke-Alexander, Rifka faded from the art world's attention. Read more

ARTFORUM SPOTLIGHT: Jorge Galindo - Postcard Paintings at Pulpo Gallery

Mar 12, 2021 ARTFORUM SPOTLIGHT discusses Jorge Galindo's show Postcard Paintings which will be on view at PULPO GALLERY from April 19 to May 16, 2021: "His fascination with postcards, when viewed against the backdrop of social distancing and isolation, brought about by the COVID pandemic, shines a special light on his work. What’s the meaning of postcards in a time where photos and messages are conveyed via social media, oftentimes before the sender even grasps their meaning? Doesn’t a postcard, handwritten and carefully selected, carry new significance, in a time where special occasions cannot be celebrated in the company of others? What do postcards mean when the journeys from which they greet do not take place?" Read more

Highsnobiety about Rulton Fyder putting up a tweet for sale on the blockchain

Text by Sarah Osei Mar 11, 2021 Sarah Osei reports on Rulton Fyder's purchase of Azealia Banks audio tape NFT, which he recontextualized by tweeting "SexTapesAreArtworks" which in turn was put up for sale as an NFT on the blockchain. Read more

Consequence of Sound compares Rulton Fyder to a Bond villain

Wren Graves reports on his acquisition of Azealia Banks Audio Tape NFT Mar 10, 2021 Wren Graves reports on Rulton Fyder's $ 18.000 acquisition of Azealia Banks audio NFT for Consequence of Sound: "Now, that 24 minutes and 22 seconds of light cardio belongs to Bond villain user Rulton Fyder, who has the right to do anything they want with it" Read more

INPUT MAG: Azealia Banks recording acquired by Rulton Fyder

Article by Mehreen Kasana Mar 10, 2021 INPUT MAG reports that Azealia Banks - a controversial rapper - and her boyfriend Ryder Ripps - an artist himself - have sold a 24 minute long audio recording on the NFT marketplace Foundation to conceptual artist Rulton Fyder. Read more

Okayplayer on Rulton Fyder's acquisition of Azealia Banks vinyl LP

Mar 10, 2021 Progressive music site Okayplayer reported on Rulton Fyder's acquisition of Azealia Banks latest NFT which gives him "full rights of ownership, distribution, and display, as well as a signed vinyl LP". Read more

UPROXX on Rulton Fyder's NSFW NFT investment

Article by Aaron Williams Mar 10, 2021 Entertainment and popular culture magazine UPROXX discusses Rulton Fyder's acquisition of Azealia Banks' NSFW NFT which he promptly turned into the most expensive NFT ever. Read more

TheArtGorgeous: What The Hell Is An NFT And What Is It Doing In The Art-World?

Features Rulton Fyder's "UNTITLED (OUR CRYPTOS ARE LIQUID!)" Mar 9, 2021 TheArtGorgeous discuss the phenomenon of NFTs and highlights their most critical benefits to the art industry: history of provenance, proof of authenticity, artist resale rights and ease of transfer: Read more

NFT Art Review discusses Rulton Fyder and the "ReArt" Movement

Article focuses on his dialogue with contemporaries. Mar 5, 2021 NFT Art Review's March 4th issue discusses Rulton Fyder and the "ReArt" Movement: "Fyder’s works have a sense of familiarity and closeness to contemporary art audiences due to the fact that they initially look as if appropriated from known significant works in the contemporary art world. However, if one takes a closer look, one will realize that the work concept is completely different, the artist has added new conceptual layers and imageries in the NFT realm to create completely new works that document and archive our current society and times while having the artist’s self-inquisitive journey in the rapidly advancing digital age, characterized by the endless circulation, reshuffling, remixing and exchanging of ideas." Read more

Julian Schnabel discusses Jorge Galindo

in conversation with Phong Bui from The Brooklyn Rail Feb 20, 2021 Brooklyn Rail publisher Phong Bui talked to Julian Schnabel in the studio space of Pallazo Chupi. Showing his admiration and enthusiasm for Spanish painters Felicidad Moreno and Jorge Galindo, Julian said: "Jorge Galindo, who is - I think - absolutely the best painter in Spain." ... "The mark making and the scale about how he can move a brush around is, they are exuberant and very succinct. The mark making is very economical and at the same time physical and victorian." Read more

Friends of Friends: Richie Culver

Feb 7, 2021 Friends of Friends meet interesting people of our society in their homes and get to know about their life and... Read more

PULPO GALLERY is now accepting submissions for its 2022 Open Call Solo Show

Winner will receive an all expenses paid solo show at PULPO GALLERY in 2022. Dec 21, 2020 PULPO GALLERY is now accepting submissions for its 2022 OPEN CALL SOLO SHOW. Entries need to be submitted via Instagram and the winner will receive an all expenses paid solo show at PULPO GALLERY in 2022. Read more

VoyageLA: Meet stephanie mei huang

Dec 2, 2020 stephanie mei huang features in a recent interview for VoyageLA. When questioned about her early life which saw her move from Wisconsin to Indiana, then to Yohoama, Japan, and to Shanghai, China, all within the first six years of her life, huang responded: Read more

Womxn in Windows 2020 in Chinatown

stephanie mei huang for Contemporary Art Review .la Nov 10, 2020 stephanie mei huang reviews the second annual iteration of Womxn in Windows which includes Everlane Moraes' Aurora (2018), Ja'Tovia Gary's An Ecstatic Experience (2015) and The Prophetess (2018) by Sylvie Weber: Read more

ART ON HIS SLEEVE: RICHIE CULVER

Nov 8, 2020 The Rake`s brilliant article about the multidisciplinary artist Richie Culver and his path to art. Find all info here Read more

stephanie mei huang contribution to Fool's Window

Oct 30, 2020 Patrick Michael Ballard, who sees his art in the context of a broad cultural milieux, one that seeks collaboration across not only artistic mediums but also the fields of game theory and development, design, education, public speaking, neuroscience, and social practice, invited stephanie mei huang to collaborate and participate in Fool's Window, an ongoing immersive game and theatrical environment staged for individuals to explore. Read more

stephanie mei huang on Once More, With Feeling - Outside panel

Oct 24, 2020 Split into four prepositional categories BETWEEN, WITHIN, OUTSIDE and AROUND, stephanie mei huang features on the OUTSIDE panel. Topics she covers include untangling the drama she exposed herself to so directly by living in Marfa for two and a half years as the only full time resident of Asian descent as well as the simultanous desire for that which you are not supposed to desire being at he heart of racial melancholia. Read more

stephanie mei huang reviewed by Lori Waxman

for 60wrd/min COVID edition Oct 16, 2020 Art critic Lori Waxman took the opportunity to review work by artists whose practice has been affected by the COVID pandemic. Discussing stephanie mei huang's latest multimedia body of work in her 60wrd/min COVID edition, Waxman wrote: Read more

From Basquiat to Rifka: Experience New York's bustling art scene of the 80s.

New York's Art Scene in the 80s through the eyes of contemporaries will be on view until November 30, 2020 Aug 26, 2020 Murnau, August 26th, 2020 With COVID still raging across the world, Pulpo Gallery hosts another online only show that takes... Read more

Visionary Projects: Interview with Agnes Grochulska

Aug 11, 2020 Agnes Grochulska in an interview about her new projects and her thoughts on working through the era of quarantine. Read... Read more

Hyperallergic discusses stephanie mei huang's "hyper(in)visibility"

Jul 6, 2020 Elisa Wouk Almino discusses stephanie mei huang's hope of creating a "space of solidarity" for Asian women through a panel titled "hyper(in)visibility." Read more

CalArts discusses HYPER(IN)VISIBILITY

Jun 29, 2020 In a recent blog post for 24700 - News From California Institute Of The Arts Christine N. Ziemba discusses HYPER(IN)VISIBILITY, an online panel discussion organized by CalArts graduate stephanie mei huang (Art MFA 2020) which will feature six Asian women artists and discuss how the "yellow woman's body, historically rendered either invisible or as 'object,' is now catapulted into hypervisibility amidst xenophobic questions of contagion, virility, and a history of scapegoatism." Read more

Exhibition: Give me the fucking keys!

Text by Brynhild Winther Jun 10, 2020 ... But what happens to art when art institutions - and everything else - shut down in the face of... Read more

Bold Outlines Delineate Expressive Portraits by Agnes Grochulska

Mar 2, 2020 COLOSSAL spoke with Agnes Grochulska about 'The Outline Series' and the character of her paintings. Read the full article here Read more

GIVING FORM TO FLEETING MEMORIES AND DORMANT MANIA

AN INTERVIEW WITH TAYLOR ANTON WHITE Mar 2, 2020 Blurring the boundaries between abstraction and figuration and painting and sculpture, Taylor Anton White is definitely one to watch. Relying... Read more

All Art-Rite Issues published in one volume

Includes three issues on Judy Rifka Nov 5, 2019 When asked about her contribution to Art-Rite, Judy Rifka said: "Because my children were small and it was hard for me to get around town so I decided to do 2000 individual issues by hand at home. We had the paper printed up with the art right logo and I went to work. It was astounding." Read more

stephanie mei huang interviewed for Urban-Wild

Oct 15, 2019 stephanie mei huang was interviewed for Urban-Wild issue eight: "My practice concerns itself with critical scripts of notions around authority, expansionism, exceptionalism and their subsequent consequences: erasure, displacement, and violence. Through research and practice, I examine the arbitrariness of the distribution of state power and the constructed narratives and fallible paradigms that uphold such power. Traversing territories of confrontation, my practice visualizes systems of control and erodes the violent mythologies that perpetuate settler colonial narratives, in the hopes of excavating partial, erased, and forgotten histories." Read more

Jorge Galindo and Pedro Almodóvar collaboration discussed on El País

Galindo gave the director the strength to dare paint for the first time at age 69 Jun 30, 2019 The spanish newspaper El Pais discusses Jorge Galindo's and Pedro Almodóvar's collaboration. Read more

Alexandra Goldman Talks to Judy Rifka about Ionic Ironic:

Myths from the 80's at CORE Club Mar 1, 2019 Alexandra Goldman interviewed Judy Rifka for Whitehot Magazine: "When Rifka spoke, I felt like I was being taken on an unapologetic beeline journey into her psyche that gave me a loving slap when I arrived and left me wanting to come back for more. Around Judy, I knew I was in the presence of greatness." Read more

Judy Rifka's Ionic Ironic at CORE CLUB

show runs until March 29th Feb 21, 2019 ANTE Up the ANTE reviews Judy Rifka's "Ionic Ironic: Myths from the 80's" exhibition at CORE Club: Read more

Studio Talks: Taylor A. White

Oct 30, 2018 American artist Taylor Anton White spent summer 2018 in Berlin and did an interview with 'Studio Talks'. They talked about... Read more

Judy Rifka included in 50 Contemporary Women Artists

Groundbreaking Contemporary Art from 1960 to Now Oct 28, 2018 Judy Rifka is featured in a new tabletop book by John Gosslee and Heather Zises called "50 Contemporary Women Artists: Groundbreaking Contemporary Art from 1960 to Now". The compendium features a selection of women artists who have made groundbreaking contributions to contemporary art and presents fresh perspectives on feminism and notions of cultural power. Amongst others, artists in the book include Bharti Kher, Judy Rifka, Kara Walker, Marilyn Minter, Mickalene Thomas. Read more

Judy Rifka features alongside Frank Stella and Claes Oldenburg in new Union Square Cafe

Cafe and art collection have relocated from East 16th Street to the corner of Park Avenue South and East 19th Apr 25, 2017 New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells discusses reopening of the Union Square Cafe and highlights its art collection featuring works by Frank Stella, Claes Oldenburg and Judy Rifka Read more

Jorge Galindo at museum Lázaro Galdiano

The artist from Madrid turns the heart of the museum into a gigantic collage Mar 5, 2017 Jorge Galindo (Madrid, 1965), one of the most active and sought after Spanish artists since the late eighties, has turned the ballroom of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum into a gigantic collage. Read more

Harper's Bazaar Arabia: Lessons in Movement

Bringing an East Side vibe to Dubai Oct 1, 2016 Harper's Bazaar Arabia's Rebecca Anne Proctor ran a long article about Judy Rifka titled "Lessons in Movement. Bringing an East Side vibe to Dubai, New York-based artist Judy Rifka shows a mix of old and new works in RETROactive at the Jean-Paul Najar Foundation". Read more

Judy Rifka's solo exibition ": RETROactive"

in the Jean-Paul Najar Foundation, Dubai Sep 20, 2016 The Jean-Paul Najar Foundation presented in September 2016 it's first solo exhibition ": RETROactive" of Judy Rifka. For this show Rifka spend two weeks in Dubai and created a series of works that were exhibited along with her works from the 70's. Read more

Fjords Review about Judy Rifka Retrospective

At the Jean-Paul Najar Foundation in Dubai Aug 26, 2016 Glynn Pogue interviews Judy Rifka about her 40+ year career as well as her retrospective at the Jean-Paul Najar Foundation in Dubai Read more

Whitehot Magazine: Judy Rifka Exhibits New Work at The Yard NY

by Mark Bloch Aug 1, 2016 "For the longest time, I have wondered about Judy Rifka's art." ... "I saw figures and other recognizable objectcs painted with Judy Rifka's familiar lines, and I saw unrecognizable abstract shapes folding over themselves like metaphysical origami suggesting new relationships..." ... “Malevich, over one hundred years ago, tried to work his way through painting space,” she has said, and adds, referring to her own work, he “tried to understand that space. I found out later from someone in math that that it is a convex hull.” Read more

Quiet Lunch reviews "Important Works by American Artist Judy Rifka"

This exhibition is a must-see Jun 7, 2016 Quiet Lunch reviewed "Bodega de la Haba Presents Frieze Frame: Important Works by American Artist Judy Rifka.": If you aren’t privy to what Judy Rifka means to the New York City art scene and the genre of intermedia art in general, this exhibition is a must-see. Read more

Hyperallergic - Beer with a Painter: Judy Rifka

by Jennifer Samet Dec 6, 2014 "To talk to Rifka is to hear about a lifetime breathing art, an uncensored lust for trying out ideas." begins Jennifer Samet's recollection of meeting Rifka at her studio followed by lunch at Union Square Café, which spots large murals Rifka painted in the 1980s. Read more

El País discusses Jorge Galindo's "Money Paintings"

Money as the support for power? Oct 21, 2014 To a certain extent his current paintings are also collages, but the cuttings he uses are not images of provocative women, but shavings of paper money, the residue of the destruction of euro banknotes, which resemble the straw that appears in some of Tàpies' paintings, on which he has dripped paint, in a broad gesture that has its origin in Miró's surrealism and its peak in Pollock's painting. Read more

Rifka's Monsters

by Andrea Scrima Aug 1, 2011 Andrea Scrima discusses Judy Rifka's foray into the world of online art: "It’s this less-than-perfect world that so much of Judy Rifka’s online art springs from, this precarious mixture of public and private that we enter into when we engage in social media. Some of the titles read like chapter headings in an artist’s book of survival: “For the Next Four Hours I Will Be Marking Papers”; “I Can’t Get a Thing Done with Your Constant Interruptions”; “Into the Soup for a Soupy Commute”; some are simply views from her window—the Manhattan Bridge in the snow, or at sunrise, or a group of children playing outside on Market Street below. Everyday life persists; seasons come and go. In a triptych titled “Ha ha ha ha,” a Rifka of stern mien holds up paper cut-outs of the words “Ha Ha” to the laptop camera’s ever-watchful eye—and already I have my daily dose of mockery to toss in the face of fear so that I might begin my day monster-free." Read more

Judy Rifka Single Shape illustrates Vogel Collection 50x50 Initiative

Shows in Philadelphia and Delaware are part of their "Fifty Works for Fifty States" gift. Jul 11, 2010 Philadelphia, July 11, 2010 The Philadelphia Inquirer uses a Judy Rifka Single Shape to illustrate their article titled 'Art: Vogels'... Read more

Art in America: Judy Rifka At The Chocolate Factory

by Lilly Wei May 1, 2008 Lilly Wei reviews Judy Rifka's show "Nostos" at the Chocolate Factory in Long Island City: "Judy Rifka's recent exhibition at the Chocolate Factory in Long Island City was her first solo show in the metropolitan area in over 6 years, and one wonders why this talented, volatile artist, associated with the artists' collective Colab and the freewheeling East Village/Lower East Side scene in the late '70s and 80's, has absented herself for so long. The show was titled "Nostos," which is apparently the ancient Greek root from which the word "nostalgia" is derived and means a return or homecoming as well as a species of fish - all of which is appropriate to Rifka's current project." Read more

Interspecies Travel

by Frank Holliday Oct 3, 2007 Frank Holliday went to see Judy Rifka's latest show at The Chocolate Factory near P.S.1 and wrote a review for Gay City News: "The first time I became aware of Judy Rifka's work was in a show curated by Haring at Ross Bleckner's building that housed the Mudd Club at 77 White Street in Lower Manhattan. The paintings were gray fields with outlined figures floating among geometric dashes. People went crazy for them and she became a major influence in turning the art direction toward post-modernism. She has since had major shows in every museum and is collected around the world. After laying low for a few years, Rifka has chosen to show her recent works, which return to her alternative roots, at an intriguing space out of the mainstream, the Chocolate Factory." Read more

The Brooklyn Rail: Judy Rifka Nostos

by Cassandra Neyenesch Oct 1, 2007 Cassandra Neyenesch reviews Judy Rifka's show "Nostos" for The Brooklyn Rail: "Since her days at the forefront of postmodern painting in the 80’s, Judy Rifka’s oeuvre has been admirably restless. There is an interplay between subject and expression that makes her difficult to pin down as an artist; sometimes one seems to take precedence and sometimes the other, but they are equally important to her, and this creates a continual tension inside the work. Her new series at the Chocolate Factory demonstrates the complexity of her project. Shapes resembling mangled abattoir leavings are painted in livid reds and bone-blues and dark purples on natural linen, then the painting is cut out and glued to another piece of linen. Smaller canvas collages are more restrained, made of cut-out circular shapes that seem to refer both to an older obsession of Rifka’s with classicizing forms and to the Russian Suprematists." Read more

Charlie Finch suggests Judy Rifka for another Whitney Show

"The Unfinished Woman" Aug 1, 2004 Charlie Finch wrote a new piece titled Wishlist for the Dog Days for Artnet suggesting Judy Rifka should get another showing at the Whitney: "The Unfinished Woman" In light of the moronic tits and ass now infecting Reality Show America, it's time to return to the feminist pioneers of post-war USA and select some outstanding works of liberation, femme style, from the forgotten past. Artists could include Joan Brown, Hannah Wilkie, Rebecca Howland, Moira Dryer, Ree Morton, Ellen Berkenblit, Judy Rifka, Judy Pfaff, Cady Noland and so many others. Read more

Grace Versus Grunge

Charlie Finch calls Judy Rifka "Forgotten Genius" Feb 1, 2004 Charlie Finch mentioned Judy Rifka in his latest Artnet Feature: "Nope, the messiestas often do a lot of harm when their turn again comes around. Thousands of them on the East Village scene trampled a few forgotten geniuses such as Judy Rifka, Stephen Lack and Luis Frangella, and the LFL brigade is determined to bury fine formalists like Kurt Kauper or Will Cotton with the undisciplined vomit of Danica Phelps." Read more

Artforum: The Rite Stuff

by David Frankel Jan 1, 2003 David Frankel discusses the history and contribution of Art-Rite to the art world for Artforum including Judy Rifka's contribution to the magazine: In this and the next two issues that year, these lists included Vito Acconci, Lawrence Alloway, Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Richard Armstrong, Rudolf Baranik, Gregory Battcock, David Bourdon, AA Bronson, Trisha Brown, Scott Burton, Lucinda Childs, Colette, Diego Cortez, Jeffrey Deitch, Richard Foreman, Hans Haacke, Alanna Heiss, Rebecca Horn, Neil Jenney, Bill Jensen, Jill Johnston, Joan Jonas, Lucy Lippard, Mabou Mines, Brice Marden, Annette Michelson, Elizabeth Murray, Steve Paxton, Robert Pincus-Witten, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Judy Rifka, Susan Rothenberg, Irving Sandler, Julian Schnabel (in 1975 Schnabel was twenty-four, and probably still working as a burger cook), Carolee Schneemann, Joan Simon, Jack Smith, Patti Smith, Holly Solomon, Nancy Spero, Alan Suicide, John Torreano, Hannah Wilke, Robert Wilson, Robin Winters, and many others both less and equally well known. As early as 1976, David Salle was writing for the magazine. It was a catholic community. Read more

Jorge Galindo - Pintura animal at Museo Reina Sofia

9 March 1999 - 7 April 1999 Mar 9, 1999 Jorge Galindo's "Pintura animal" will be on view at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía from March 9, 1999 to April 7, 1999. This series of seven paintings critices "the false interpretation of abstract painting, the excess in domestic decorative order and the abundance of images that surround contemporary humans". The series depicts dogs and other animals that are complemented by naked female or male torsos, thus causing a feeling of displacement and discomfort with the viewer. Criticizing mass culture, the paintings highlight the lack of filters by the reader and consumer. Read more

Art in America: Judy Rifka At Alley Culture

By Vincent Carducci Jan 1, 1998 Vincent Carducci discusses Judy Rifka's exhibition of her "Pet Boy" series at Alley Culture: The "Pet Boy" motif, a cartoonish cat-headed male figure often rendered seminaked, made its first appearance in Rifka's work in the late 1970s. At that time, she adopted a feminist position which led her to appropriate techniques of the male gaze as an art strategy. Here the "Pet Boy" installation comprised dozens of outlined figures in several standardized poses, each mechanically reproduced on 5-by-S-inch card stock, arranged on the wall in floor-to-ceiling rows. The figures were hand-painted in a rainbow of flesh tones as a multicultural array of exotic yet commodified objects of desire. A Neo-Classical pattern on the banding of the underwear worn by many of the "Pet Boys" looks to have been derived from a Gianni Versace ad. Read more

Judy Rifka features prominently in MODERNITIES: Art-Matters in the Present

by Joseph Masheck Feb 9, 1993 Former Artforum editor Joseph Masheck has published a new book which explores the open-ended possibilities of abstract painting in 30 essays and reviews: "Sampling the neoexpressionist flowering on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Masheck singles out Judy Rifka's archly iconoclastic urban dystopias and Sigmar Polke's Pop-imbued abstracts." Read more

Judy Rifka And “Postmodernism” In Architecture

Art in America, December 1984 Dec 1, 1984 Judy Rifka’s “A. Museum”, 1982 adorns the cover of the December 1984 issue of Art in America and is accompanied by a 16-page article by Joseph Masheck: “Using Rifka’s Parthenon paintings as his prism, the author illuminates many moments in the strange family of classicism, examining works from Mannerism to Minimalism, Pop to the present. Like some classicizing art today, the result is a tour de force of references.” Read more

Judy Rifka and Van Gogh

Ronny Cohen for Artforum September 1984 Sep 1, 1984 Like Van Gogh, Rifka represents the universal dynamism of nature in the very interstices of the painting: what he did with his wonderfully fibrous brushstrokes, she does with the psychologically imposing physicality of her relief structure. Read more

Glenn O’Brien discusses Judy Rifka’s contribution to Colab, “A More Store”

Colab, "A More Store", takes place at Jack Tilton Gallery Mar 1, 1984 Artforum's March 1984 issue sees Glenn O'Brien discuss Judy Rifka's contribution to Colab, "A More Store", at Jack Tilton Gallery Read more

Kunstforum: Judy Rifka is New York

A lively, active woman who immediately captivates you in every way. May 1, 1983 The May issue of Kunstforum explores the contemporary art scene of New York and concludes that Judy Rifka is the quintessential New York artist: "Judy Rifka, a lively, active woman who immediately captivates you in every way, who at times seems like a personified New Yorker and conveys something of the aura, hecticness, excitement, but also the wit, the nonchalance, the quick-tempered cleverness of this city, sees herself as an outspoken representative of the post-minimal era." Read more

Jeanne Silverthorne highlights lack of women in "The Pressure To Paint" show

Says Judy Rifka should have been paired with David Salle Oct 1, 1982 There are no women in the show. ... there are plenty of women who would have more than held their own in the visual pairing done here. Along with Baselitz/Schnabel and Haring/Penck, there could have been Judy Rifka/Salle, Austé/Haring, Louisa Chase/Cucci, Pat Steir/Kiefer, and Joan Snyder/Schnabel, to name but a few. Read more

Judy Rifka in Artforum September 1982

Article by Edit deAk Sep 1, 1982 From Bruce McLean’s man holding up a tape measure through the sci-fi figures of Keith Haring, to Judy Rifka’s acrobatic females . . . and, yes, we have boxers, saints, wimpy winners, sports champs, and headhunters, we’ve even got crucifixes and Jonathan Borofsky’s colossi. Why, it’s enough to make you throw up your hands. And, ladies and gentlemen, don’t worry, we make connections. We’ve got your late-night urban white girl tangled up with the black-man myth (Elvira Bach), and in the next room we’ve got paintings by the Black Man Himself, Jean Michel Basquiat. Read more

Dancers, drummers, posers - a veritable New York cast features in Judy Rifka's latest paintings

Kate Linker for Artforum Summer 1982 Jun 1, 1982 But most important are her characters—a veritable New York cast. Most step out of the rock clubs; there are dancers, drummers, posers. And many are femmes fatales—racy ladies with high-heeled shoes, who strut their stuff and perform. These figures run and jump, cavorting across the canvas, or swoop in from the wings—from offstage, “real” terrain. And while some are punk priestesses, still others are graffiti guerrillières armed with spray cans. Whoever’s on the scene, supposedly, is there. Read more

The Radiant Child

Artforum, December 1981 Dec 1, 1981 The Artforum December 1981 issue featured a landmark essay about the East Village gallery scene of the early 1980s by Rene Ricard. Asking the question “What is it that makes something look like art?”, the essay is nowadays considered a seminal text in contemporary art criticism. Read more

Artforum Summer 1981: Rene Ricard on Julian Schnabel and Judy Rifka

Article titled Not About Julian Schnabel Jun 1, 1981 Rene Ricard revises his opinion of Julian Schnabel's work in his latest Artforum article that is full of praise: "I never cared for Julian’s work and still ain’t crazy about the drawings. When I saw the first plate however I realized that here was something I had to come to terms with, that I somehow had a responsibility to it, pushing as it did so much else into the back of my mind, as a new love will erase a difficult love one has been battling. And now as the etiolated American hegemony withdraws we see, as Judy Rifka sees, a great world of art blooming in perfection and Julian wielding his great artillery in the setting of the American sun." Read more

Judy Rifka's triptych Confused features in MoMA Penthouse

New Art II: Surfaces/Textures runs from Mar 26 - Jun 9, 1981 Mar 26, 1981 Judy Rifka is contributing a large scale triptych ot New Art II: Surfaces/Textures, the second in a series of Penthouse exhibitions presenting new perspectives in contemporary art. Read more

Review of Judy Rifka's show in Artforum November 1980 issue

Joan Casademont reviews Judy Rifka at Braathen-Gallozzi Contemporary Art Nov 1, 1980 Eclecticism—not to be confused with this year’s fashion—informs Judy Rifka’s painting from the series, “80 Views of West Broadway.” Rifka doesn’t rehash old points, though her approach shows a careful consideration of color and form. The catch is that the work appears very contemporary, since its “accessibility” carries a distinctly New Wave sensibility. Read more

Artforum February Issue Features Judy Rifka in Centerfold

Intro by Ingrid Sischy Feb 1, 1980 Judy Rifka takes an Artforum Centerfold 4 page spread in the February 1980 issue. Read more

Judy Rifka in Rooms at MoMA P.S.1

Group show runs form June 9 to June 26, 1976 Jun 9, 1976 Rooms at MoMA P.S.1 explores works by artists such as Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Daniel Buren, Walter De Maria, Joseph Kosuth, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Judy Rifka, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Richard Tuttle and Lawrence Weiner. Read more

Judy Rifka - Artists Space

Susan Heinemann for Artforum May 1975 May 1, 1975 Artforum's May 1975 issue features Susan Heinemann's review of Judy Rifka's latest paintings Read more