“Her appointment and programming are also signals from CMU that it’s moving full throttle into a leadership role among university and alternative galleries.”
Tag: Press
City Paper reviews Keep It Slick
“Curator Suparak has demonstrated a knack for exhibiting the work of those who require a hyphenated addendum to the word ‘artist.'”
City Paper feature on Your Town, Inc.
“This and other revelations about the afterlives of closed big-box retailers are the subject of Your Town, Inc., a new exhibition of work by artist Julia Christensen”
Rhizome interviews Suparak
“Your style of independent curating was noticeably different: your interest in emerging artists, non-traditional exhibition spaces and video and media art set you apart.”
City Paper on Suparak’s appointment at CMU’s Miller Gallery
“Suparak made her name as a globetrotting independent curator. Now she’s parked at CMU; her hiring, in March, makes her arguably the biggest underground art star to move to Pittsburgh in years.”
Other Exhibitions at Miller Gallery
Other exhibitions, events, residencies organized for Carnegie Mellon’s Miller Gallery, 2008 – 2014.
C Magazine feature on Suparak’s curatorial practice
“What Suparak has done for me is to restore my sense that cool can work as a powerful rhetorical device… She uses her personal voice and her institutional power to give permission to speak to those who might not have believed they had it.”
Fanzine feature on Come On and controversy
“The fact is that Suparak did curate contextually strong exhibitions. This is why she had a following. This is why the Warehouse was widely hailed as a success… Suparak was exceedingly capable of creating a context for challenging and new work.”
NPR-affiliate WAER on Suparak
“She’s fast developing a signature style for exciting, witty and synergistic group exhibits”
Canadian Art review of Faux Naturel
“Given my prejudices, I found Faux Naturel – a group show celebrating some of the many wonderful ways artists have contrived to recreate woodland splendours, but without all the mucky bits – just my kind of walk in the park… Faux Naturel reminded the sensible viewer (and me) that, exotic and mysterious as nature may be, it’s best left to its own devices.”
Post-Standard reviews Come On
“Provocative, original work that is sure to grab your attention and occasionally push you to the edge of discomfort… For some, it takes a shock to light the fires of contemplation.”
Other Exhibitions at Warehouse Gallery
Other exhibitions and events organized for Syracuse University’s Warehouse Gallery, 2006 – 2007
Artforum on LTTR
“the contents of the journals do not conform easily to categories, and often blur the lines between art, criticism, and fiction… it is always a finely wrought object.”
Video Pool reviews Let’s Get Tested
“Astria Suparak’s performance […] brilliantly set up the themes of the program. Let’s Get Tested explores the schism between the methodology of science and foible-filled humanness. For the most part, the tapes affirm the value of the ineffable and the elusive: immeasurable phenomena such as playfulness and pleasure. […] Let’s hope that Suparak continues with her zealotry, criss-crossing the globe as a present-day video prophet”
RES profile on Suparak: “Programmed to Stun”
“What she really wanted to do was blow the minds of viewers with unctuous erotica, politically motivated old school avant-garde retorts, hyperbolic tales, and, well, all the great stuff that hardly anybody shows anymore, much less puts together with loving attention to aesthetic nuance and fertile, thematic collision. Noting that part of her project entails seducing viewers to witness unconventional works, she also helps foment a network of artists and like-minded exhibitors.”
The Independent profile on Suparak: “Experimental media curator as rock star”
“At age twenty-four, Astria Suparak has already invented an unstoppable experimental film enterprise. As curator-on-wheels, she is aggressively building sexy niches for visceral and demanding new films and videos by cutting edge artists from around the world, who may seem freaky or misplaced in traditional art or film world contexts.”
LA Weekly reviews Looking is Better than Feeling you
“Suparak’s terrific show will set straight anyone who thinks that women’s media is on the wane.”
Art Voice on Looking Is Better Than Feeling You
“These works address ideas of looking – of the pleasures and intimidating powers of The Gaze – in subtle ways. These artists are asking questions that cannot and will not be answered by manifestoes; they are forcing the viewer to look, and to look at them and their lives.”
New Times on Dirges & Sturgeons
“The champion of this raw, creative art form is Astria Suparak, a New York-based film curator who’s on a tour”
The Statesman on Looking Is Better
“Some of the biggest names in contemporary performance and video art celebrate women acting up and acting out in Looking Is Better Than Feeling You”
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