SELDON HUNT: YOUR GALLERY CRITIC'S PICK BY ANGELA ROBERTS
In Seldon Hunt's photographs the deserted forest resembles a manufactured diorama of the natural world, suggesting events and characters that have been removed or are hidden. 
June 16, 2007
June 08, 2007
DAVID COTTERRELL: YOUR GALLERY CRITICS' CHOICE BY REBECCA GELDARD
David Cotterrell takes a long view of the political structures that define society yet his poetic manifestations often communicate the intimacy of one-on-one engagement. Critical of Western definitions of historical facts, Cotterrell poses specific questions about the delineation of public territory and classification of personal status. From Shanghai to Hull, his chosen sites and ambitious multi-media interventions force him to challenge his own take on other people's histories and the suitability of academic processes and modes of making in communicating complex ideologies to the wider public. 
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June 02, 2007
CHRISTIAN SCHOENWAELDER: YOUR GALLERY CRITICS' CHOICE BY ALIX RULE
How can we protect ourselves? Christian Schoenwaelder's sculpture explores the occult quality of that which is secure. His meticulously crafted wooden boxes and cabinets, shrink wrapped mattresses and shapes shrouded in burlap are like ancient talismans, caricatured. Whether because of the threat their protection implies, or because they seem themselves seem threatening, these big objects are silently terrifying. 
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May 26, 2007
KENT ROGOWSKI: YOUR GALLERY CRITICS' CHOICE BY ANA FINEL HONIGMAN
Hawaiian-born artist Kent Rogowski gives poignancy and personality to mundane toys and whimsical objects. Toys and games are commonly intended to provide creative escape, but the objects Rogowski playfully appropriates evoke nothing more imaginative or stimulating than visions of last-minute purchases and forgotten minor amusements. 
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May 16, 2007
JONATHAN GITELSON: YOUR GALLERY CRITIC'S CHOICE BY BILL ROBERTS
The bread and butter of Jonathan Gitelson's art is that most elusive of subjects, everyday life. Since moving from New York to Chicago, Gitelson has turned the overlooked stuff of the city into the focus of his large-scale photographic works, capturing such things as discarded club fliers and pairs of shoes hanging from telephone wires. 
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May 12, 2007
LAURA C WAGNER: YOUR GALLERY CRITICS' CHOICE BY ANA FINEL HONIGMAN
After feminism, Peyton Place, Tom Learer, David Lynch, Gregory Crewdson and the directors of 'Desperate Housewives' unearthed the sinister activity, hypocrisy and seedy sexual subtext hidden behind clichés of saccharine, sanitized suburbia, it is hard to look at a beaming housewife and her spotless kitchen without expecting the worst. Bangkok-born, Philadelphia-based Laura C Wagner's sarcastic series of screen prints, 'The Cannibal Debutante', drives another spike into the myth of suburbian perfection. 
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April 28, 2007
CLAUDIA DRAKE: YOUR GALLERY CRITICS' CHOICE BY STEVE PULIMOOD
Claudia Drake's work culls the silent macabre of nineteenth-century visual culture to produce images of haunting pensiveness. Without the need for an exacto knife, she dusts off the banality of these fragments with a keen eye for editing in a digital process, coupling the playfulness of a Picabia collage with the black humour of the mid-century Italian painter and design impresario Piero Fornasetti. 
April 21, 2007
ERIC DOERINGER: YOUR GALLERY CRITICS' CHOICE BY ANA FINEL HONIGMAN
For years, Brooklyn-based artist Eric Doeringer (below) has been establishing himself as a New York art lover's Fairy Godmother by granting poor gallery goers' wishes for affordable little canvases of images made by their favorite art stars. He produces small-souvenir scale versions of well-known paintings, sculptures, collages, drawings and works in other media by more than a hundred contemporary artists, which he then sells at international art fairs and glitzy exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial. 
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April 11, 2007
NICOLE MORRIS: YOUR GALLERY CRITIC'S CHOICE
Nicole Morris makes art about transition, evocative photographs and installations where 'one thing becomes something else'.
March 24, 2007
KELLY GARDNER: YOUR GALLERY CRITICS' CHOICE BY ANA FINEL HONIGMAN
Regardless of trends or personal style, fashion functions as a visual vocabulary which conveys the practical facts of our daily activities and expresses our aspirational images of ourselves. English artist Kelly Gardner's sculptures of dresses made from pages of books and lit from within by electrical lights poetically articulate that duality - clothes illuminate and project the true stories about who we are and also the fictions of who we wish we were. In rendering those tales, she selects textiles whose delicacy evokes the fragility of flesh, while the rich, vintage Victorian tints of her lace prints create an appealingly anachronistic sense of sensuality. 
March 10, 2007
ADAM LATHAM: YOUR GALLERY CRITICS' CHOICE BY REBECCA WILSON
Adam Latham, who graduated from London's Royal College of Art in 2005 with an MA in Painting, makes drawings and paintings which confront taboos and the limits of acceptable ideas of taste. His work, which has its roots in social and political cartooning, explores the role of exoticism in art, and the intricacy particularly of his drawings at first diverts one's gaze from their less than palatable subjects. 
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March 01, 2007
WILLEM BESSELINK: YOUR GALLERY CRITICS' CHOICE BY CHARLOTTE MCLAUGHLIN
Willem Besselink's practice mostly takes the form of performative installation. Created and developed during a set time period and within a set space, his works focus around a playful concept which involves the artist as arbitrator and members of the public as pawns on a game board. 
February 24, 2007
JOSEPH GIANNASIO: YOUR GALLERY CRITICS' CHOICE BY ANA FINEL HONIGMAN
New York-based artist Joseph Giannasio scraps, peels and folds paint, wood and other banal building material taken from exhibition space floors. The rows of tightly bound rolls form single installations that are intended to represent the time he invested in their creation. As his materials crumble and corrode, it becomes increasingly difficult to divide the organic and artificial associations his art brings to mind. 
February 17, 2007
SYRA LARKIN: YOUR GALLERY CRITICS' CHOICE BY KATHERINE LEVY
The visual immediacy of Syra Larkin's art is procured through a very angular style, echoing a Picassoian impulse to distort and exaggerate. Limbs are edgily pronounced, the white curvy flesh standing out against a monochrome background. 
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January 25, 2007
LONELY HEARTS CORRESPONDENCE CLUB: YOUR GALLERY CRITICS' CHOICE BY ANA FINEL HONIGMAN
While the majority of the artists on Your Gallery employ the site as a showcase for reproductions of their art, the 'Lonely Hearts Correspondence Club' is one of only a few wholly web-based works. The tone of the project is appropriately maudlin, yet seductive and sincere, with images that are also sexy and Gothic enough to create romance out of the loneliness that causes a keyboard call-out. 
December 23, 2006
ANTTI LAITINEN: YOUR GALLERY CRITIC'S CHOICE BY MELISSA JOHNSON
In 2002 the Finnish artist Antti Laitinen embarked on an extended performance piece entitled Bare Necessities, a work Richard Long and Vito Acconci might have dreamt up had they ever collaborated. Laitinen decided to live in the forest for four days without provisions of any kind - except for state-of-the-art camera equipment with which to document his return to nature. 
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December 16, 2006
MONIKA BIELSKYTE: YOUR GALLERY CRITIC'S CHOICE BY LUPE NUNEZ-FERNANDEZ
Echoing some of the spiritual introspection in Francesca Woodman's test prints and the rich symbology latent in Tarkovsky's films, as well as the overexposed corporeality of Warhol's reels, Monika Bielskyte's stories are as mysterious as her method, and reflect everyday miracles from an original sideways stance.
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December 10, 2006
CHARLESWORTH, LEWANDOWSKI & MANN: YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY REBECCA WILSON
In January 1970 the American 'land' artist, Robert Smithson, created one of his celebrated earthworks, Partially Buried Woodshed, at Kent State University, Ohio. Four months later a demonstration against the Vietnam War took place at the university during which four students were killed by National Guardsmen. Since then Smithson's work has not only become an iconic work in the art historical canon but also a metaphor for the social and political climate of the time. Over three decades later Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann, a group of students from Goldsmith's College, London, recreated Smithson's work, engaging, as they put it, with 'a mythological and political discourse which calls into question the historical narratives of the protest movement in 1970s America'. Rebecca Wilson reports. 
December 03, 2006
ESTHER JERVIS: YOUR GALLERY CRITICS' CHOICE BY MARK GREENE
Emily Jervis, currently studying for an MA in Fine Art at Central St Martins in London, creates strange, mythological characters - men in city suits photographed wearing incongruous animal heads, hybrid creatures made out of plaster, wire and fabric - which draw on her interest in fables, storytelling and leaving space for the viewer's imagination to run riot. 
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November 25, 2006
MARTIN ROTH: YOUR GALLERY CRITICS' CHOICE BY CHARLOTTE ALEXANDER
A price gun and price tags replace traditional tools such as paint and the paintbrush in Martin Roth's works which offer a commentary on consumerism in America. 
November 19, 2006
ALLA TKACHUK: YOUR GALLERY CRITICS' CHOICE BY REBECCA WILSON
'My artistic sensibility is for ever tied to the past. At seven I was punished for touching Lenin's nose, as a teen forced to write false Komsomol meetings reports, as a student I spent time in the KGB's freezing rooms. My relatives were persecuted by Stalin; my parents investigated; amongst those killed by Nazis are my two grandfathers.' In her series of 20th-century dictators Alla Tkachuk depicts the defining figures of her childhood, fusing her own experiences with history and the politics of the last century. 
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November 11, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY HONG-AN TRAN
Alon Ohana's paintings capture the essence of her subjects, depicting characters displaced far from the original newspaper photographs in which the artist finds inspiration.
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November 04, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY KATARINA HORROX
Magical explorations of an adult world through childlike eyes epitomise the work of Dhruvi Acharya. 
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October 28, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY ASHLEY ELDRIDGE-FORD
Alex Rennie's paintings show the influence of Caravaggio, as he readily admits, but perhaps more subtly so the absorption of the Symbolists Franz von Stuck and Lovis Corinth. Either way, Rennie's paintings (re)create an ideal: a glowing and powerful London of classical proportions and a strong unflinching male figure. 
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October 21, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY JASON ODDY
Like the feather neck adornments of some Amazonian tribe, the rigorous geometric patterns in Ross Holden's photographs are an abstraction of the surrounding world. The simple technique of repetition allows this 34-year old English artist to confer an orderly aesthetic identity onto the confusion of the world at large. By Jason Oddy. 
October 15, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY CARTER FOSTER
Icarus Helmut by Anthea Bush, one of the 30 artists selected for the Your Gallery@the guardian project, seems to quote and redo Meret Oppenheim's fur-covered cup. Hard and soft together become more heroic by referring to the body of an anti-hero, in both subject and form. Carter Foster, curator of drawings at the Whitney, is impressed by the slickness of industry combined with a softness and ephemerality. 
October 08, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY CHARLOTTE MCLAUGHLIN
"The ingenuity of film and photography as art medium lies in its flexibility - most effective in documenting the raw and real and contrastingly also in staging and styling the less real. As photographer and video artist, Kiki Petratou embraces this fluidity."
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September 30, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY REBECCA WILSON
Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny, twentieth-century symbols of innocence, are encroached upon by bones, birds of prey and political figures such as Hitler and Lenin in what Dan Baldwin describes as 'contemporary versions of 17th-century vanitas paintings'. 
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September 18, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY VICKY FOX
Vicky Fox ifeels the rhythms of the tide looking at the watery interventions of sailor and boat-builder Marie Lorenz, whose work is posted on Your Gallery. 
September 11, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY TOM MORRIS
People's dreams sent to her via email, or over the telephone, and etched onto eggs; sheets of paper with bullet holes, each one representing the longitude and latitude of an international atrocity... Tom Morris reflects on the work of Miranda Maher, whose work you can see on Your Gallery. 
September 10, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY BILL ROBERTS
Carlos Andrade and Todd Ayoung create videos and installations that, though often cryptic or abstracted, invariably refer to catastrophic events of contemporary history. 
August 31, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY STEVE PULIMOOD
Jamie Salmon works in a long tradition that extends from Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783) to Ron Mueck (1958- ). Messerschmitt was born in the age of enlightenment where the physiognomy of the face, and its extreme expressions were a science. Salmon's bronze offers to the viewer a fragmented stoicism, a portrait bust of statuesque vulnerability. 
August 27, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY MELISSA GRONLUND
The intersection of wayward, unruly lines against an ordered background in Caterina Lira Pereira's paintings displays bursts of energy reminiscent of Jackson Pollock whose drip technique so effectively transferred energy to the canvas. 
August 20, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY TARA WOOLNOUGH
While the work of Deidre But-Husaim may suggest that Marilyn Monroe lookalikes are twice as much fun, the artist also leaves the viewer questioning under what strictures gentlemen really do prefer blondes. 
August 13, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY SAM EARL
John Burke's sparse convases dominated by empty beds and a sense of loss recall iconic images by Andrew Wyeth and van Gogh. 
August 06, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY MITCHELL MILLER
If you can imagine a melancholic Marshall McLuhan playing peeping Tom on random members of the 'DVD generation' then you get close to the spirit of Louise Galea's work. 
July 29, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY MATT PRICE
Matt Price is impressed by the unassumingly outsider and contentedly naïve in the paintings of Philip Absolon. 
July 20, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY SHUMON BASAR
Seventeen-year-old Lauren Hicks' drawings represent the archeteypal search for that thing called 'art'. 
July 13, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY ANA FINEL HONIGMAN
Heather Tweed's series of photographs shows Anubis, the Egyptian god of the underworld, softened by history and appearing in a variety of guises from biker's garb to a schoolboy's uniform. 
July 01, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS' CHOICE BY JANE NEAL
Bleached-out landscapes, monochrome skies and moonlit seas make up the sensitive and evocative practice of London-based artist Marguerite Horner. 
June 17, 2006
YOUR GALLERY: CRITICS´ CHOICE BY LUPE NUNEZ-FERNANDEZ
Memories of a life at sea pop-up in the works of Paul McFadden.