Kathleen White
Art Review
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Winter 2018

"Life doesn’t compute," the critic Bruce Hainley once offered as a summation of the oeuvre of Hanne Darboven (an armoury of endless looped scrawls and unequivocal equations, neatly inked on graph paper and filling up calendar grids). One is reminded of the resolute will with which the German artist produced those obsessive ledgers when viewing Kathleen White’s "A Year of Firsts" (2001), a suite of 40 drawings in paint, ink, pastel and other media on rag paper, many accompanied by explanatory pencilled captions and each marking a separate day in 2001. The New York-based artist is perhaps best known for her work commemorating friends lost to the city’s aids crisis during the 1980s and 90s – a time in which death appeared to strike at random, picking off members of her community without logic or reason. . .

Cat Kron

Cat Kron is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Artforum, Artillery, Art Review, Contemporary Art Review LA, Cultured, and FRIEZE, among others.

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