Vince Carducci has been one of Detroit's leading thinkers on local and national art over the past two-and-a-half decades. He's contributed to influential magazines Art Forum and Art in America and earlier this year was awarded a Kresge Foundation Fellowship for his stellar work. It is well deserved.
Carducci compiles his critical work in his blog Motown Review. His latest entry is on Detroit artist Scott Hocking.
Excerpt:
In response to my most recent post, which included a link to the video about Detroit released last week by Palladium Boots, I received a message from Kristen Gallerneaux, a folklorist/artist currently living in Oregon. She included a link to a video she shot last spring titled
Get in My Car and Drive: Nowhere in Detroit (Episode 1) embedded above, featuring artist Scott Hocking. The 15-minute video opens with a brief segment of drive-by cityscape and then cuts to Hocking in his studio talking about the influences on his work. But most of the piece consists of following Hocking into and around the Packard Motor Car Plant to see his monumental installation,
Garden of the Gods, 2009-10.Read the entire entry
here.
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