THE NEW YORK TIMES
Show Us Your Walls
By Hilarie M. Sheets
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| Candace Carmel Barasch at home with, from left, “Alex Israel, Self Portrait (Multiples),” 2017 and, on table, his “Syz’s Frozen Yogurt,” 2017. |
“I hope you don’t have a seizure,” Candace Carmel Barasch playfully warned a visitor entering her Park Avenue apartment, where many of the vibrantly hued artworks blink and buzz on the walls. Alex Da Corte’s theatrical tableau of a candle in a window is outlined in neon tubing so intensely colored it almost hurts the eyes. Cory Arcangel’s portrait of Miley Cyrus on a flat-screen TV uses obsolete technology to create a rippling lake effect that could induce wistfulness — and a touch of seasickness. Recalling her renovation of the apartment 15 years ago, Ms. Barasch, a Manhattan native, said, “I should have put a plug at every single station.” The bold, contemporary works all refer to Hollywood in some way. [
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| Alex Da Corte’s neon sculpture “Good Window With Candle (Purple),” 2018.Credit... |
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| Rob Pruitt’s “Official Art World/Celebrity Lookalikes Series,” 2016-2017. |
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| “American Idol (Lana),” 2018, by Sam McKinniss, with, foreground, Mr. Israel’s “Desperado,” 2014. |
