Essential Works Ann Landi, Vasari 21, Features, "Time-Traveling Art Critics," Jan 3, 2021 https://vasari21.com
2020
EHFagan Studio
London Calling Collective In Accordion Time, Unfolding Ursa Gallery, The Arcade Mall, Bridgeport, CT
Etty Yaniv, Art Spiel, In Accordion Time, Unfolding : A Pandemic Archive at Ursa Gallery, In Dialogue with Alexandra Rutsch Brock, December 30, 2020.
https://artspiel.org
Pandemic Proof
Ann Landi, Vasari 21, "I do believe we’re on the eve of….well, something…." 11/02/2020
Tom Martinelli's painting Yep (Eye-Mind No. 0717), 2017i s the cover image on this latest issue of Woven Tale Press Sandra Tyler, Woven Tale Press Vol. VIII #6, Cover feature, https://online.flipbuilder.com/eovs/tint/, September 1, 2020
Satellite
Susan Happersett, guest editor; Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. The following ODETTA artists were included: Paul Corio, Loren Eiferman, Gregory Patrick Garvey, Deanna Lee, Audrey Stone. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tmaa20/14/1-2
Read Untapped Citiescoverage of the launch. Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Untapped Cities, "A Lilliputian Gallery Opens in Harlem, Portal to a Miniature World, " August 11, 2020.
Susan Happersett, guest editor; Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. The following ODETTA artists were included: Paul Corio, Loren Eiferman, Gregory Patrick Garvey, Deanna Lee, Audrey Stone. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tmaa20/14/1-2
Vandy Leigh, Seacoast Online, "Area Arts: Anne Mary Kenny creates Industrial Quilts sewn with wire instead of thread, " October 20, 2019 https://www.seacoastonline.com
Interalia Magazine, Taney Roniger, "In Praise of Form, Towards a New Post-Humanist Art, " September 2019 https://www.interaliamag.org
Two Coats of Paint, Editorial Assistant, Sharon Butler, "Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide: August 2019, " Photo Feature, August 12, 2019 http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2019/08/
Art Daily, Jose Villarreal, "ODETTA Opens An Exhibition Featuring Works by Paula Overbay, Andra Samelson, and Daniel HIll, August 1, 2019 http://artdaily.com/news
"United by a shared transpersonal perspective that reaches beyond the individual ego, the artists of ODETTA's current show "Bluebird of Happiness” employ the self as an instrument for making art, rather than as the subject of the work.
Refreshingly unmired in the daily temporal slog, curator Ellen Hackl Fagan has selected paintings that invite a renewed consideration of that which is instead eternal and unchanging—the laws of nature—and their concomitant physical and metaphysical dimensions."
_ Julie Nelson
"While grounded in science, Daniel Hill's lyrical visual stenography offers a deep dive into resonances that reach beyond the five senses, and edge toward a more metaphysical realm along the lines of mystic-mathematician pythagoras’ theory of “the music of the spheres”
The crisply defined, symmetrical lines expand outward in concentric ripples, forming graceful cascades of interweaving, emanating waves (of sound? of fluid? of light?) One must spend some time staring into the paintings to begin viscerally *feeling* the pulses, rather than merely “looking at” them. There is an “op art” component to these paintings, as the crisscrossed sinuous lines can induce a slight sense of motion and warping of space.
If we allow the work to take us into its world, maybe we can almost hear the the pulse of whatever source may be producing these emanations—if not audibly, then perhaps by engaging faculties of higher perception." _Julie Nelson
"Paula Overbay’s diffuse collectives of white dots twist, pull and spin in deep ultramarine blue spaces, in a joyfully unpredictable dance of self-organizing affinities. Overbay uses the visible language of painting to hint at the invisible forces that push and pull matter + energy into higher order structures around unseen centers of gravity or axes of force.
Patterns of tiny atom-like dots evoke hundreds of organic associations—the motion of clouds coalescing, wind currents swirling, or flying starlings caught mid-murmuration. Each sector of dots has its own sub-action within the overall composition; adjoining areas are asymmetrical and not bound by what their neighbors are doing—that’s what makes these pieces so delightful to peruse.
A scene from the 1999 film "american beauty" comes to mind, in which a plastic grocery bag is swept up by wind and made to dance, as if directed by an unseen choreographer—you see the results, but the immaterial impetus remains elusive. " _ Julie Nelson
"Andra Samelson maps the cosmos in a diagrammatic, rather than illustrative, manner that uses abstract symbolism to intimate spiritual truths. Along the lines of aboriginal art, her paintings reflect and embody glimmering clues about deeper levels of reality, both physical and metaphysical.
Works by Samelson in this show seem to encode one of the most fundamental dynamics at play in the universe—the paradoxical [duality+unity] of opposites.
In basic perceptual experiences such as [up/down] + [left/right] + [dark/light], each half of a pair depends upon its opposite for its own definition. A good case in point is this snippet from the buddhist heart sutra—'form is emptiness, and emptiness is form,' each is intimately and inextricably beholden to its opposite, and Samelson's work is a sort of Taoist acknowledgment of their embedded and fruitful collusion.
Because differences cause friction and conflict, the cycle of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis enacts itself endlessly. Samelson’s black, white, and royal blue compositions are woven together in a grid of opposites, vertical and horizontal, as a fabric is constructed by binding warp with weft. Black, empty circles ringed with white dots punctuate the blue squares, reading both literally as black holes out in the star-filled void of space, and poetically as wormholes into which the mind might dive on the quest for expanded consciousness." _ Julie Nelson
"Angie Drakopoulos’ work lives in the paradoxical and mysterious nexus between the material and the metaphysical worlds. How does order arise out of chaos? How does matter assume the particular structures it does? How do we engage the mind/body problem, make sense of how consciousness and matter interrelate? And what the hell are dark matter and dark energy?
These profound questions hover over the works, whose centralized, bilaterally symmetrical, ethereal compositions of tiny white dots trace out organic structures along a vertical axis, manifested like delicately weightless strands of lace. The central 'spine' form calls to mind a human body, a column of aligned chakras, subtle energy centers through which universal energy flows.
Drakopoulos shines in evoking the innermost workings of the holistic cosmos, without remotely collapsing its mystery. By forming (or dissolving?) structure before our eyes out of an ambient, cool blue void, she points to a richly textured nothingness that is also—paradoxically—a weighted somethingness."
_ Julie Nelson
Art Spiel, SHARILYN NEIDHARD, "Las Gravitas at ODETTA, A show of swirling color and geometry finds ways to discuss complicated issues of violence and social collapse." NOVEMBER 30, 2018 https://artspiel.org/las-gravitas-at-odetta/
ODETTA | Sound Garden with John Morton and Jacqueline Shatz
Art Daily, Jose Villarreal, "Noted composer, instrument builder, and sound artist, brings his sonic ingenuity to the Morris Museum," Tuesday, November 27, 2018 http://artdaily.com/news/
Gallery Travels Seen Around Town, Anne Russinof, "“Invocation” at ODETTA with Loren Eiferman, Camille Eskell, and Charles Geiger May 12 -– June 18, 2017, Flat Files Artists: in collaboration with Creative Tech Week 2017: Jeff Becker, Joshie Fishbein, Greg Garvey, Toni Simon, Susan Stair," July 4, 2017, https://gallerytravels.blogspot.com
The New Criterion, Art, Gallery Chronicle, James Panero, On the “Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts” at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, “Empty” at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, and other recent exhibitions of contemporary art. April 2017 https://www.newcriterion.com
2016
Best of 2016 Brooklyn Magazine, Paul D'Agostino, "Salves & Salvos: 2016 Art Highlights," December 20, 2016. http://www.bkmag.com
Kurt Steger: Scribing the Void, Coach House
Commercial Observer, Dena Silver, "Five Things That Make the New Coach Store Awesome," December 9, 2016 https://commercialobserver.com
Observer, Dena Silver, “Take a Stroll Through Coach’s New Flagship Store With Stuart Vevers. The executive creative director explains his vision for the Fifth Avenue shopping experience.” November 18, 2016.http://observer.com/2016
Real Estate Weekly, “Coach Opens its New Flagship Store on Fifth Avenue,” November 28, 2016. http://rew-online.com/2016
Architectural Digest, Hadley Keller, “Coach's New Store Is an Ode to New York and the American Dream. Designer Bill Sofield and Coach executive creative director Stuart Vevers unveil the new Coach House.” November 18, 2016. http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/coach-house-new-york
Hyperallergic, "Conjuring a Piece of the Earth by its Outline," Susan Silas, August 15, 2016. www.hyperallergic.com
The New Criterion, Critic's Notebook, James Panero, Editor, The arts of persuasion & controlled inebriation, Art, "Kurt Steger: Scribing the Void at ODETTA (Through August 21), August 1, 2016. http://eepurl.com/b_Zj2T
The Creator's Project, "How an Artist Brought a Central Park Boulder to Brooklyn," Andrew Nunes, July 29, 2016 http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com
Feature: Ellen Hackl Fagan, Owner and Director, ODETTA
Hearst Media, Greenwich Time, S Magazine, Christina Hennessy, Her Evergreen Just Had To Be Blue, December 13, 2015, Cover Feature http://blog.ctnews.com/sundaymagazinect/2015
Beat Nite, The Bushwick Daily, February 19, 2015, Katie Killary, Neighborhood-Wide Gallery Walk, Beat Nite Returns on March 6 with a Special Edition Curated by Ben Sutton
http://bushwickdaily.com
Pay to Play, Arts in Bushwick, January 23, 2015, Etty Yaniv, Gesture and Commentary- Recent Gallery Openings, http://blog.artsinbushwick.org
Pay to Play, ArtFCity, January 12, 2015, Whitney Kimball, This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Good Reasons To Put Pants On, http://artfcity.com
Pay to Play, Bushwick Daily, January 15, 2015, Katie Killary, A Healthy Dose of Art and Vitamin C: This Weekend’s Openings Are Vital In The Cold
Becoming......., Bushwick Daily, December 3, 2014, Katie Killary, Looking Through the Art History Telescope: ODETTA presents “Becoming” Artist Talk on December 7th. http://bushwickdaily.com
Spatial Intelligence, Wagmag, November 1, 2014, Enrico Gomez, Abstraction in Brooklyn in November, http://wagmag.org
Gobsmacked! Artillery Magazine, November 4, 2014, Seph Rodney, Charlotte Schulz: Odetta Gallery / New York http://artillerymag.com
Wagmag, September 2014, Enrico Gomez, September Madness 2014, Photo feature, Margaret Roleke, Disorder, 2014.
The Art of Bricolage, September 21, 2014, Nancy Natale, Margaret Roleke at Odetta Gallery in Brooklyn http://artofbricolage.blogspot.com Culturecatch, September 26, 2014, Bradley Rubenstein, Little Q+A: Margaret Roleke + Bradley Rubenstein, http://culturecatch.com
EDEN, The Architecture of Tomorrow, August 9, 2014, Douglas Turner, Saturday in Bushwick and Williamsburg—Melinda Hackett and Mike Drury at Odetta, http://douglas-turner.com/
OPENING DAY, Artnet News, June 5, 2014, Cait Munro, “Opening Day" at Odetta Gallery, closes June 26, http://news.artnet.com
Most handsome new gallery in Brooklyn: The l magazine, July 30, 2014, The Editors, The Best of Brooklyn: The 100 Best—and Worst—Things to Happen This Year, http://www.thelmagazine.com
Bushwick Open Studios 2014 Hyperallergic, June 1, 2014, Hrag Vartanian, Thoughts on the Present and Future of Bushwick Open Studios, http://hyperallergic.com
Bushwick Daily, May 30, 2014, Terri Ciccone, Get Ready for the Most Glamorous Art Openings During BOS Weekend! http://bushwickdaily.com
Blouin Art Info, In the Air, Art News & Gossip,May 27, 2014, Ashton Cooper, Odetta Gallery to Open in Bushwick This Week http://blogs.artinfo.com