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A review of the recent exhibition of paintings by Andrew Masullo at Mary Boone Gallery, New York.
"The formulaic can be described as a basic formal framework that is repeatedly applied with only minor variations from one work to another. If there is anything that I might call formulaic about Andrew Masullo’s work, it is his palette. Upon further examination, Masullo’s use of color is not formulaic after all, because it allows us to relate one painting to another. His colors come unmixed and although often described as bright, they have nothing in common with the unpleasantly sweet colors of Peter Halley. Masullo’s compositions, to the contrary, are never alike and remain in continuous flux. It is as if the paintings’ primary purpose is to defeat repetition and embrace contingency."
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http://hyperallergic.com/68896/oddly-warped-and-genuinely-thrilling-paintings/
Rob Colvin reviews the exhibition of paintings by Andrew Masullo at Mary Boone Gallery, New York, on view through April 27, 2013.
Colvin writes that Masullo's paintings "outwit, defy, and make gallery-going fun again. With numbers for titles, the works elicit numerous surprises, and these of several kinds. Even the dates startle. One work, ten inches by eight, took him ten years to make. Very few contemporary abstract painters... excite and bewilder as Masullo does... In each of Masullo’s works is an idiosyncratic self-organization that pulsates with inner life. It’s in his economy of means, his concision of wit, and even his materials."
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Altoon Sultan vists two exhibitions of abstract painting: Painting Advanced at Edward Thorp Gallery (through April 20) and Andrew Masullo at Mary Boone Gallery (through April 27, 2013).
The two shows, Sultan writes, "got me thinking about how important the quality of paint was to me: paint itself, how it looks, how it works, how each artist uses it." In the work of Masullo, she finds that "the images are enchanting, but for me the love of paint is missing," while the five painters work on view at Edward Thorp each have "a very different approach to image and materials, each with a rich and sensuous use of paint."
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James Kalm visits an exhibition of paintings by Andrew Masullo at Mary Boone Gallery, New York, on view through April 27, 2013.
Kalm films a walkthrough with close-ups of many of Masullo's signature small-scale abstractions. Kalm notes: "Developing a recognizable style which melds formalist nonobjective design with the hot punchy color of Neo-Pop graphics, Masullo has become an exemplary practitioner of the New Abstraction."
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http://structureandimagery.blogspot.com/2013/03/painting-in-chelsea.html
Paul Behnke photo blogs visits to several painting shows on view in Chelsea in March, including: Andrew Masullo at Mary Boone Gallery (through April 27), Baker Overstreet: Frown Upside Down at Fredericks & Freiser (through March 30), Hope Gangloff at Susan Inglett Gallery (through March 23), and Al Held: Alphabet Paintings Cheim & Read (through April 20).
Behnke's photos demonstrate the wide range of painting, in both subject and scale, currently on view in New York.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/arts/design/andrew-masullo-paints-his-way-to-whitney-biennial.html
Carol Kino profiles Andrew Masullo whose paintings are on view at the Whitney Biennial through May 27, 2012.
Kino notes that Masullo is "One of only a few living painters in the performance-heavy display, Mr. Masullo has been acknowledged by many as a star of the show."
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http://gregcookland.com/journal/2011/11/17/andrew-masullo/
Greg Cookland blogs about the exhibition Andrew Masullo: Recent Paintings on view at Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston through December 3, 2011.
Cookland notes that "Usually this sort of hard-edged abstraction is painted smooth and flat, but Masullo... brushes on the oil paint at a fluid, opaque consistency, something like house paint, with it building up into lumps and encrustations here and there that suggest him working out the compositions as he goes along, and makes them feel more homespun."
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http://glasstire.com/2011/10/17/forrest-bess-100-years-at-kirk-hopper/
Lucia Simek reviews the exhibition Forrest Bess 100Years: Paintings by Forrest and His Friends at Kirk Hopper Fine Art, Dallas, on view through October 23, 2011. The show includes paintings by Bess, Chuck Webster, Andrew Masullo, and Chris Martin.
Simek writes: "Bess's work is powerful in its preciousness - aching with an intensity and fervor of ideas that, even for its size, challenges the monolithic works by his AB EX contemporaries at the mid-century,when most of his works on view here were made. Certainly, because of their scale, and the crude handmade frames, Bess's work immediately reads in an intimate, spiritually-leaded way."
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James Kalm visits an untitled summer painting exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash featuring the work of Katherine Bernhardt, Alfred Jensen, Chris Johanson, Chris Martin, Andrew Masullo and Judith Scott on view through August 5, 2011.
The press release notes that the artists share "hand-wrought qualities and an aggressively direct use of color, texture, and material, their work provokes cultural and psychological readings as well as aesthetic ones... They suggest and supersede a number of dichotomies: abstraction and representation, skilled and unskilled, polished and crude, innocent and knowing."
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http://anaba.blogspot.com/2010/11/andrew-masullo.html
