Anna Ostoya's "Exposures", Bortolami Gallery, New York
e-flux criticism
2011
“Anna Ostoya's twenty-eight canvases in Bortolami Gallery mark the twenty-eight days of February 2011. Upon the gallery's invitation, Ostoya set herself specific rules of production—to initiate a new piece each day for the duration of February, and to work only on 20 x 24 inch canvases with four main materials: newspaper, gold leaf, acrylic paint and papier-mâché. The resulting series of 28 works, Exposures on display are thus residues of a performative, diaristic process that the artist obscures with formal finesse.”
