Mayukh Sen
I’m a sophomore at Stanford University studying film and history, and I’m interning at Artlog this summer. I love Jane Fonda.
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Magazine posts contributed by Mayukh Sen
Suppressed Passion and Stubborn Resolve
07/13 |
Mayukh Sen
Jane Campion’s characters reek of suppressed passion. Endowed with a stubborn resolve, they are defined by a refusal to compromise. Filmmaker Miranda July, who considers Campion an indelible influence on her own career, has chosen to highlight three of these short films – An Exercise in Discipline - Peel (1982), Passionless Moments (1983), and A Girl’s Own Story (1984) – on Thursday, July 14, at The IFC Center.
Richard Prince Kills His Idols
08/08 |
Mayukh Sen
Littered with old checks, used condom wrappers, and magazine cut-outs, the images from Richard Prince’s newest exhibition are like polished trash. Paying homage to Jackson Pollock, the famed appropriation artist has selected photographs of the painter at work and desecrated them. Prince replaces Pollock’s head with the likes of Kate Moss and Sid Vicious, obliterating the artist’s identity along with typical notions of authorship. Though tese themes are familiar ones for the artist, this latest exhibition also reflects a more introspective turn for the artist.
The Frenzied Unconscious
07/07 |
Mayukh Sen
Things don’t make sense in Laura Ball’s world. A giraffe melts onto an elephant’s body. Parrots burst from a horse’s mane. Human irrationalities take monstrous form. Her universe presents the unknowable and unwanted, all that we wish to avoid. Laura Ball’s energetic, frenzied watercolors, part of her newest exhibition, Animus, are an attempt to express the collective feminine unconscious, brutal and chaotic, through animal form.
Back to New Wave New York
08/12 |
Mayukh Sen
The subjects of Laura Levine’s iconic rock photographs were in constant search of expression. To her, musicians were not airbrushed spectacles, but vulnerable, energetic, highly personable creatures worthy of our gaze. She captured such culturally salient figures as Boy George, Grace Jones, and Joe Strummer in a state of rawness and urgency – before, say, Madonna really knew she was Madonna. For a time, Levine was one of post-punk and New Wave’s most avid chroniclers, the eye of a certain place, time, and way of existing.
Stuck Between Two Eras
07/07 |
Mayukh Sen
In the ghostly coal-mining towns of Eastern Ukraine, time stands still. Men die late in their fifties; women don’t live much longer. Ukrainian-born, Brooklyn-based photographer Sasha Maslov turns his lens on these human tragedies with Forgotten Village (2011), an exhibition that runs through September 3 at the Sputnik Gallery. In his photographs, Maslov captures the Ukraine’s coal miners who, trapped in this grave cycle since the fall of the Soviet Union, can’t escape their dead-end lives.
