LUKE STROSNIDER | WORDS
My arts writing has been featured frequently in Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, among others.
Below are samples. Please visit my blog Touching Harms The Art for a complete archive, as well as recent ruminations on art, seeing, and experience.
from a review of "Niagara" by Alec Soth
"The ultimate symbol of fading passion in Soth's work are the falls themselves ... Like heated passion, the waters roil and churn as they approach a sheer cliff. Soth's images imply that the test comes when a relationship plunges over the brink - if it survives this turning point, then passion will flow on as enduring love; if not, it will fade like the mists that rise from the falls' basin."
from a review of James Deavin’s exhibition"Photographs from the New World” at Jen Bekman Gallery, New York City
"The greater significance of this show is its implications for the future of photography. [It] takes the position that photographers are moving beyond capturing light in this plane ... Photography and reality have always had an uneasy relationship; with this exhibition the gulf is widened. "
from a review of "Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids" by Andrey Tarkovsky
"Tarkovsky elaborates on happiness and his loves, but also loneliness and the existential challenges of being in the world. There is a sadness to his ruminations, but also an acceptance of true joy being not the emotion itself but man's quest toward it. Tarkovsky's Polaroids show us ... the fleeting visual instants capable of making one's spirit feel simultaneously full and empty."