Link to Post:
http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2012/11/artists-as-curators-stephen-truax.html
Sharon Butler blogs about the exhibition Love curated by Stephen Truax and presented by Art Blog Art Blog, on view at One River Gallery, Englewood, NJ, through December 21, 2012.
Love, featuring work by a diverse group of Brooklyn painters, celebrates the emotional attachment both painters and conceptual artists have for the medium, a 'love' that has returned painting to the "forefront of innovation in visual art." Butler writes that curator "Truax says the artists he has selected have 'a romantic and emotional engagement with painting and its history,' At the end of his essay, he even suggests that Conceptual artists are adopting painting as a strategy, too... Believing that all painting, no matter how seemingly intuitive, has conceptual underpinnings, Truax makes a case that the old saw "dumb like a painter" no longer applies."
The exhibition is accompanied by an online catalogue.
Link to Post:
http://thepaintedwrd.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/talking-monochrome-blues/
Thoughts on the continued resonance of monochrome painting inspired by the recent exhibition of paintings by Joshua Smith at Shoot the Lobster, New York.
The work of Smith and other artists including Thomas Kratz, Dan Rees, Julia Rommel, is considered with regard to a question with "two implicit parts: one, whether an artist still stands to gain something 'sincere,' i.e. fulfilling, from making a monochrome, and two, whether the art-viewing public has not become too cynical and/or short of attention to appreciate a contemporary monochrome."
Link to Post:
http://structureandimagery.blogspot.com/2011/05/painting-in-brooklyn.html
Painter Paul Behnke tours several painting exhibitions in Brooklyn including: Louder Milk: Tom Burckhardt at Pierogi Gallery (closed May 8, 2011), One Dozen Paintings at The Journal Gallery (with work by Peter Coffin, Jacob Kasssy, Sam Moyer, Joshua Smith, Sarah Braman, Olivier Mosset, Tauba Auerbach, Dan Walsh, and Leif Ritchey - through May 20, 2011), Bezold Effects: Molly Herman at b. conte (through May 11, 2011), and Drawing Into Paint: Margrit Lewczuk at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery (through May 29, 2011).
