--- title: 2017_Gatson_New Yorker date: 2017-10-04T14:36:00-04:00 author: Graham Murray canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-gatson-new-yorker" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) 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The New Yorker May 04, 2017 "In March, I went to see the first Biennial to be held at the Whitney’s new building downtown, near the Hudson and the High Line, with an artist friend whom I knew to be the best kind of museum companion—entirely comfortable with splitting up until the end of the visit. We took the elevator together between floors but were otherwise invisible to one another until, after an hour or so, we left the exhibition and started to walk. As we went, my friend expressed his disappointment with the show. It wasn’t that the work was uniquely bad or ill chosen. “It’s just—I sort of couldn’t believe how many *paintings* there were,” he said. “And, like, *photographs*.” He wasn’t wrong. As Peter Schjeldahl mentions in his [recent review](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-whitney-biennials-political-mood), some of the most striking pieces in the show were pictures, more or less straightforward, representational ones: Henry Taylor’s vivid, emotional painting of Philando Castile and the firearm, crudely drawn, that ended his life; Deana Lawson’s gauzy photograph of three shirtless young black men, distinctly reminiscent of album art; a series of goofy, darkly funny paintings by Celeste Dupuy-Spencer. The show had been hailed as political, but how radical could it be, he asked, if it leaned so heavily on these old, conservative forms, however bold the messages they’d been used to convey?" **[Read more here.](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-importance-of-the-faces-on-the-walls)** Related News & Press May 04, 2017 [ ![Gatson Nina 2007](/assets/exhibition_images/Gatson-Nina-2007.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-gatson-new-yorker) May 04, 2017 The New Yorker [Rico Gatson](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/rico-gatson) [How Radical Can a Portrait Be?](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-gatson-new-yorker) Jul 10, 2017 [ ![Gatson Marvin No 1 2015](/assets/exhibition_images/Gatson-Marvin-No.-1-2015.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-gatson-the-village-voice) Jul 10, 2017 The Village Voice [Rico Gatson](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/rico-gatson) [Black Lives Shine in Rico Gatson's New Show](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-gatson-the-village-voice) May 09, 2017 [ ![Gatson Martin With Family 2016](/assets/exhibition_images/Gatson-Martin-with-Family-2016_171004_185055.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-gatson-vice-creators) May 09, 2017 Creators [Rico Gatson](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/rico-gatson) [Colorful Collages Preserve the Legacies of Black Icons](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-gatson-vice-creators) Oct 22, 2017 [ ![Cassils Encapsulated Breaths 2017 4](/assets/exhibition_images/Cassils-Encapsulated-Breaths-2017_4.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-cassils-bomb) Oct 22, 2017 BOMB Magazine [Cassils](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [Recalibrating Sense: Cassils at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-cassils-bomb) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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