July 7, 2011
'Equine' at Froelick Gallery: Unbridled visions
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Feb 19, 2011
Book Marked
I find Wendy’s work to be both funny and terrifying. Like Adam Eckberg, Wendy Given creates staged scenarios, but are much more narrative driven. While Adam’s work pays specific attention to the phenomena of light and color, Wendy’s staged work deals more with fairytales and cultural tableaux. I think what attracts me most to her work is its ability to take a genre that’s been done to death in art school, and give it a fresh life.
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Wendy Given re-reads magic
and modernism at Whitespace
There is reason to note that many of the works in Wendy Given’s Turn Your Back to the Forest, Your Front to Me at Whitespace made their debut a few months earlier in a show titled How to Explain Magic to a Dead Rabbit at this ex-Atlanta artist’s Portland gallery. The title of that exhibition, an allusion to Joseph Beuys’s famed performance How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, indicates Given’s debt to mystical modernism
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Review: Wendy Given’s dark
and beguiling fairy tales at Whitespace
Sometimes art is simply an object on a wall, beguiling for its aesthetic or intellectual properties but undeniably inert and aloof. And some work has the immersive properties of moviemaking: you enter willingly into the world the artist has conjured up, eager to be enchanted. Wendy Given’s solo exhibition at Whitespace gallery, “Turn Your Back to the Forest, Your Front to Me,” through February 26, fits into the latter category.
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Twin collisions of photos, sculpture
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Closing Oregon's art gap
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Independent Art
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Diem Chau and Wendy Given
at Fifth Floor Gallery
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March 5, 2009
Closing Oregon's art gap
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Into the wild
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The Fine art of collecting
Where to find pieces you'll love—and how to buy them.
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Atlanta link comes
vividly to the forefront
By Jerry Cullum
FOR THE JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Wendy Given's "Domestic Predators" collages and photography possess a similar willingness to confront cuteness and make it scary. These intelligently arranged critters are totally unthreatening, but you'll never look at doggies or kitties quite the same way again.
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WEEKEND PREVIEW Friday, Aug. 4, 2000
Private universe
lurks
beneath cartoon surface
Wendy Given, who has just moved from Atlanta to Los Angeles, became well known during her half-dozen or so years of exhibitions here for cartoonish figures that superficially resemble children's art. But her animal figures have always gone beyond the too-cute-for-words world of cartoons to embody something more psychologically complicated.
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Forty Winks for the Four-Footed
Nancy Solomon Gallery, project room
April-May 1997
Written by Jason A. Forrest
Art Papers, July/August 1997 p.48
Forty Winks for the Four-Footed, the latest installation by Wendy Given, is a silly adventure composed of seven artists "curated" from the artists mind. Immediately one recognizes the bizarre scope of Ms. Given's imagination.