Fiona Connor at Modern Art

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Mark, touch, history, transience, communication, all things the sign board sediments. As a newspaper's pages accumulate history, a condo's message board holds its neighborhood. There is lives, jobs, wants, wishes, desires attached to a board, fossils of a building accumulating the tacks of people's frontiers, the edges of their presence in the world, leaving notes to the chance of being happened upon, message in a bottle of dryland. Information display systems we find increasingly endearing.

Jorge Pardo at 1301PE

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The original vertigo of aura grafted onto furniture has since, with art fair’s erosion of the distinction between art and decor, lost all meaning. This exhibition looks more art fair than interior design, like toadstools on a wall. What may be beleagueredly interesting about Pardo’s practice now - artists for decades attempt “meaning”’s destruction in an intellectual whack-a-mole - to consider here something inconsequential. The real exchange was ability for museums to now enhance their lobbies with a didactic.

See too : “Seven Reeds” at Overduin & Co. , Ned Vena at Société , Stephan G. Rhodes at Vilma Gold