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http://ayearofpositivethinking.com/2013/02/10/on-being-a-lady/
Mira Schor blogs about the exhibition To Be a Lady: Forty-five Women in the Arts, curated by Jason Andrew, at at 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery, New York, on view through March 22, 2013.
Schor writes: "I figure that since the show is divided into two parts, installed along two separate sections of the space, with one side featuring the works of women artists who are deceased, and the other side featuring those of us still among the living, I feel that I can safely recommend the dead without incurring controversy among the other living artists in the show or referring to my own work in it or the ramifications of the word 'lady, ' which I know has stirred some controversy. Curator Jason Andrew of Norte Maar has assembled some terrific work in this show, a diverse group of works by notable artists and artists that some may be less familiar with, and in each case has included a very good example of the artist’s work, and in some cases quite a surprising one. Again, I am just talking about the dead. The works are grouped in open bays or booths, creating in effect small mini-exhibitions with some interesting synergies."
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http://www.supremefiction.com/theidea/2012/11/gallery-chronicle-november-2012.html
James Panero reviews the exhibition To Be a Lady: Forty-five Women in the Arts, curated by Jason Andrew, at at 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery, New York, on view through January 18, 2013.
Panero writes: "It’s too bad that the language of music cannot apply to visual art. We all know there’s a difference between a tenor and a soprano, yet we value them equally. In fact, opera is rather dull without both. The same holds true for the voices of painters or sculptors. With its concentration of abstract artists, 'To be a Lady' suggests, in particular, why women’s voices have been essential to the evolution of modernism. Even without pivotal figures on display like Helen Frankenthaler, the lady who made the men look like boys, 'To be a Lady' suggests how women have advanced an abstract language that is thankfully free of distracting male quavers. Without macho bluster, the works here can settle into contemplative, often symmetrical compositions."
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http://hyperallergic.com/58498/city-of-women/
Thomas Micchelli writes about the exhibition To be a Lady: Forty-Five Women in the Arts curated by Jason Andrew, organized by Norte Maar, on view at 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York through January 18, 2013.
To be a Lady, Micchelli notes, is a show of "startling scale, ambition and quality: a museum-caliber exhibition unenclosed by museum walls." He continues: "One of the ironies of To Be a Lady (implicit in its title, which Andrew asserts is meant as a provocation) is that the pieces derived from traditional notions of domesticity — 'women’s work' in the not-gender-neutral term — are often the most aggressive... Aggressiveness is on full display in conventional media as well, with tough and jagged paintings by Pat Passlof, Elizabeth Condon, Grace Hartigan, Mira Schor, Brooke Moyse and, with a marked acidity, Elizabeth Murray."
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http://artrated.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/searching-within-review-of-alice-neel-late-portraits-still-lifes/
Lily Koto Olive reviews the exhibition Alice Neel: Late Portaits & Still Lifes at David Zwirner Gallery, New York, on view through June 23, 2012.
Olive writes that "the interior lives of [Neel's] subjects peer out at us from within their surfaces. Neel's uncanny ability to capture her subjects psychological states in the moments they sat in front of her reads intensely in person. The personalities reveal themselves through Neel's fluid handling of paint; stories unfolding, lives and past moments cascading into the present. I immediately wanted to know more about the lives of the people she was surrounded by."
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http://artobserved.com/2012/05/new-york-alice-neel-late-portraits-still-lifes-at-david-zwirner-through-june-23-2012/
A. Bregman blogs about the exhibition Alice Neel: Late Portraits & Still Lifes at David Zwirner, New York, on view through June 23, 2012.
Bregman writes that Neel's "depictions are at once traditionally representational and non-traditionally provocative, with the images of her neighbors, friends, family, and other New Yorkers portrayed in a way that questions the confines of socioeconomics and heteronormativity. By depicting her own unconventional life, the portraits of her friends and family took on a greater societal significance that continues to resonate on view today."
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http://hyperallergic.com/47894/benny-andrews-alice-neel-and-bob-thompson-michael-rosenfeld/
Brendan S. Carroll reviews the exhibition Benny Andrews, Alice Neel, Bob Thompson at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, on view through April 7, 2012.
Carroll writes: "What the artists in this show have in common is a commitment to paint the people in their lives. To look at these faces and the bodies on view is to see men and women who 'lead lives of quiet desperation,' toiling on the moldy rim of society. The most engaging work balances realist representation and expressionism."
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http://artobserved.com/2011/07/go-see-london-alice-neel-men-only-at-victoria-miro-gallery-through-july-29th-2011/
C. Hughes-Greenberg blogs images from the exhibition Alice Neel: Men Only on view at Victoria Miro Gallery through July 29, 2011.
The show features "an intimate selection of portraits by Alice Neel, focusing on her work with male subjects. Titled 'Men Only', the show highlights Neel’s relationship with the different men who posed for her over the years."
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http://structureandimagery.blogspot.com/2011/07/art-in-chelsea-7811.html
Artist Paul Behnke blogs a painting-rich photo tour of current exhibitions in Chelsea including installation views of works by Louise Fishman, Ghada Amer, Chantal Joffe, Alice Neel and Joan Mitchell in The Women in Our Life at Cheim & Read; Deborah Zlotsky in the Summer Group Show at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts; Paul Resika: Flowers at Lori Bookstein Fine Art; and more...
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http://artinthestudio.blogspot.com/2011/01/on-women-achieving-success-alice-neel.html
Nancy Natale examines Phoebe Hoban's book Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty. "Hoban's book traces all of Neel's "quintessential bohemian" life while proposing her as the archetype of women's coming into their own: 'Neel's life is not just the saga of a great American painter; it is a great American saga... the life of an independent woman who was first and foremost an artist.' "
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http://bigthink.com/ideas/24010
