The Menil

Best of 2021

January 12, 2022

These are the exhibitions and artworks I will remember from 2021. I start with a bit of writing and then trail off with a list.

Roni Horn, The Dogs’ Chorus. Let Slip to the Ends of the Earth, 2016. Watercolor, pen and ink, gum arabic on paper with tape. — Roni Horn, *The Dogs’ Chorus. Let Slip to the Ends of the Earth,* 2016. Watercolor, pen and ink, gum arabic on paper with tape.

Roni Horn: When I Breathe, I Draw

July 08, 2019

Roni Horn is a contemporary artist based in New York and Iceland. Horn makes use of sculpture, photography, and drawing. Unconstrained by labels and an “artistic style”, Roni Horn commits to ambiguous and challenging projects.

Last spring, I visited at the Menil Drawing Institute for the first time and viewed “Roni Horn: When I Breathe, I Draw, Part I”. The exhibition featured cut assemblages on paper. The works were large and precise. They were also oddly intuitive, natural. I enjoyed how both the deconstruction and careful reconstruction were subtly apparent.