“To me, there’s the sense of an exposé — Kjartansson laying bare a suite of visual techniques designed to convince, to provoke, to arouse. It’s cold and calculating. It’s too perfect.”
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“It’s a great excuse to enjoy Portland without its summertime crowds, to eat exceptionally well in a place that Bon Appetit magazine named “The Restaurant City of the Year 2018” and to take in the work of this master. “
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“…the artist’s works remain enormously entertaining, and that’s reason enough to give them another look.”
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“The result is an exhibition of majestic proportions that offers a stunning and complicated portrait of the patriarch of America’s first family of Art.”
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Kjartansson received the prize for his presentation of The Boat, one of nine videos from the “Scenes from Western Culture”
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Haystack’s contribution to art pedagogy isn’t a signature aesthetic or philosophy, but an openness to accommodate and include, change and grow.
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This exhibition is a blockbuster because it sets the Haystack story in the context of both mid-century American art and mid-century American life, and how the two intersected around a not-quite Utopian lifestyle vision that encouraged invention, creativity and a free exchange of ideas.
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It’s an exhibit that will be worthy of a road trip to Portland, the hipster capital of Maine, famed for its food scene, vitality and its artistic sensibility.
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With seminal works of art by leaders of the midcentury studio craft movement, the exhibition asserts Haystacks central role in national debates about the boundaries between art, craft, and design.
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