Four Artists Doing It Differently, According To Reilly Davidson
For the writer, curator, and gallerist, finding talent with "true verve" isn't easy, but these four creatives are refreshing the art world.
Maggie Friedman, Untitled (Susan Cianciolo Run 13), oil on canvas, 2022, 84 x 80 1/2 inches. Image courtesy Hannah Hoffman Gallery.
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4 Ways is a column that asks four people how they would do one specific thing. As part of Hacking It, in collaboration with Urban Outfitters and Dickies, we asked four experts in four different industries to name four people approaching their worlds in unique, non-traditional ways.
Any attempt to track down the pulse of “now” is a fool’s errand, with the frenetic globalization of art-making and trading bolstering increasingly transitory aesthetic movements. By seeking out pockets of true verve, one is able to sustain a certain potentiality. In keeping with this, the four artists here proffer singular visions for what production can look like when it is unfettered by the pollution of populism. That is not to say that these four do not operate in tandem with the historicity. Rather, their evasions of contemporary “grasping at straws” attitudes set them closer to the pulse of sincere poises.