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The 2013 Armory Show

By Dante D'Orazio
  • Captive Reflection by Leandro Erlich Behind the broken window, the screen shows overlapping scenes powered by a Mac mini.
  • Timeless Standards by Cory Arcangel Watermarking as art, courtesy of the art-world's most prominent Warhol acolyte.
  • Jim Campbell This cloud of lights creates shadow figures by turning off bulbs, working as a kind of makeshift monitor.
  • Jim Campbell This LED array was another monitor-hack, showing a figure walking, stumbling, and finally crawling from left to right.
  • You will kill/I forget by Jenny Holzer A conceptual piece projected onto the side of Rockefeller Center.
  • Meteor Lecture by Klaus Lutz This early film exhibit projects a silent film onto a hovering balloon.
  • Marika and Nino by Justin Lieberman A column of vintage cameras, held together by Miffy glue.
  • petpurrr by Tony Oursler HD projection-mapping onto a fiberglass form, and easily the creepiest thing we saw all day.
  • Alyson Shotz These mathematical curves are rendered entirely with pins and string.
  • Fireman's Glove with Photograph by Roman Signer The name says it all, really.
  • Singer by Dave Cole This 20s-era sewing machine pokes holes in a ribbon according to the Google results for the search, "I am a 1920s Singer Sewing Machine how do I work."
  • Untitled (The Meaning Of Life Is That It Stops) by Barbara Kruger The famous artist and designer weighed in with her usual combination of sans-serif aphorisms and collage.
  • Etc by Peter Liversidge These are not actually performance artists. They're just working.
  • Cell Division by James Clar In a show full of fluorescent lights, this was a highlight.
  • Sassaly by Keith Sonnier A less geometric take on fluorescent sculpture.
  • No. 368 by Rana Begum One of a series of sculptures based on optical illusions.
  • Triangle, Hexagon, and Monagon by Monir Farmafarmaian A series of manipulated mirrors.
  • The crowd was well-dressed.
  • Study for Leaving by Anthony McCall and Serie Concentrico by Hector Zamora This Sao Paolo gallery specializes in geometric studies.
  • Vulcan Leather (Ballhawk and Prosper) by Eric Yahnker Spock playing baseball; what more do you need?
  • Perimeter Studies by Conrad Shawcross Fun with geometry and metal.
  • Giant Teeth by James Capper Genuinely just a bunch of power tools sitting on concrete blocks.
  • The Contemporary side of the show holds the work of over 100 galleries.

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