Review of Odessa Straub’s “There’s my chair I put it there”
Hi friends,
Please check out my review of Odessa Straub’s "There’s my chair I put it there" in the Dec 2019-Jan 2020 issue of The Brooklyn Rail.
https://brooklynrail.org/2019/12/artseen/Odessa-StraubTheres-my-chair-I-put-it-there
Here’s an excerpt:
“Throughout the exhibition the restorative and sexual relationships evoked in these works reveal a fragile yet perseverant Eros. […] Straub’s artwork reconceives sexuality as an intimate mode of living that is receptive and responsive, tender and creative, and as vulnerable as it is giving.”
IMAGE CREDIT:
Odessa Straub, Venom—Voiding—Vessel, 2019. Scaffolding wood, acrylic paint, enamel, wool, rope, canvas, glass cloche, aquarium substrate, Plexiglas, plants, water. 21 x 69 x 59in. (53.34 x 175.26 x 142.24cm). Courtesy the artist and SEPTEMBER Gallery, Hudson, NY.