May 4, 2020
Artforum: Karyn Olivier: Everything That’s Alive Moves
Karyn Olivier: Everything That’s Alive Moves By C.C. McKee for Artforum May 4, 2020 Karyn Olivier’s exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art is introduced by a poignant contestation of the monument’s expected forms and subjects: Attendants at the threshold of the gallery invite viewers to take a simple red carnation and a pearl-topped lapel…
Apr 15, 2020
BOMB Magazine: Collapse and Equilibrium: Michelle Lopez Interviewed
Collapse and Equilibrium: Michelle Lopez Interviewed By Olivia Gauthier for BOMB Magazine April 15, 2020 “In Michelle Lopez’s site-specific installation Ballast and Barricades, ladders, scaffolding, rubble, wood, and bits of rock are suspended and carefully placed on the floor of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Philadelphia.  “The Philadelphia-based sculptor presents an urban, architectural landscape in flux. It…
Apr 1, 2020
Artforum: Trevor Shimizu
Openings: Trevor Shimizu By Joe Bucciero for Artforum April 1, 2020 If much art exists to stimulate admiration, even lust, few artists are as up-front about it as Trevor Shimizu. Pieces throughout his career demonstrate as much: One, from 1999, begins a recent survey, Trevor Shimizu: Performance Artist, at the ICA Philadelphia. It’s the artist’s…
Mar 23, 2020
Artblog: Of Monumental Proportions, Karyn Olivier’s Everything That’s Alive Moves
Of Monumental Proportions, Karyn Olivier’s Everything That’s Alive Moves By Alex Smith for Artblog March 23, 2020 Karyn Olivier is an artist creating structures with a lasting impact, building columnar sculptures, sometimes of stunning beauty, and other times of a washed out simplicity that can still inspire. Her pieces invite viewers to think about the…
Jan 23, 2020
Contemporânea: Trevor Shimizu: Performance Artist
Trevor Shimizu: Performance Artist By Cristina Sanchez-Kozyreva for Contemporânea January 23, 2020 As an artist whose oeuvre often likes to style itself in a self-deprecating fashion, Trevor Shimizu’s works in Trevor Shimizu: Performance Artist at Kunsthalle Lissabon have a remarkably droll interest in the life of the artiste. The exhibition has the many attributes of…
Dec 10, 2019
Penn Libraries: Zoe Leonard Sculpture on Display at Penn’s ICA
Book Art: Zoe Leonard Sculpture on Display at Penn’s ICA By Gretchen Stiteler for Penn Libraries News December 10, 2019 The University of Pennsylvania-affiliated Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) has no permanent collection. Instead, the ICA features rolling exhibitions of innovative artists both established and emergent. It was famously the first museum to present a…
Dec 3, 2019
Hyperallergic: The Everyday Manifestations of Colonialism’s Legacy
The Everyday Manifestations of Colonialism’s Legacy By Olivia Jia for Hyperallergic December 3, 2019 Banal Presents is the third and final chapter in Colored People Time, an experimental exhibition in three parts curated by Meg Onli at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Stretched over the course of one calendar year, this exhibition attempts…
Dec 2, 2019
Title Magazine: Performing the Institution: ICA Philadelphia’s Trevor Shimizu: Performance Artist at Kunsthalle Lissabon
Performing the Institution: ICA Philadelphia’s Trevor Shimizu: Performance Artist at Kunsthalle Lissabon By Emily Leifer for Title Magazine December 2, 2019 What is an institution? Is it a building, a budget, a mission statement? These are the questions that I is for Institute, an initiative by the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, has been trying…