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http://elisabethcondon.blogspot.com/2012/12/chelsea-beautiful.html
Elisabeth Condon photoblogs current and recent exhibitions on view in Chelsea: Trenton Doyle Hancock: ...And Then It All Came Back To Me at James Cohan Gallery (closed Dec 22), Keltie Ferris at Mitchell, Inness & Nash (through January 12), Barnaby Furnas: If Fishes Were Fishes at Marianne Boesky Gallery (through January 9), David Humphrey: New Paintings at Fredrick and Freiser (through January 19), Stephen Mueller: Selected Works 2007 - 2011 at Lennon, Weinberg (closed Dec 22), works by Jennifer Wynne Reeves at Stux group show, Annie Attridge: Wanderlust at Asya Geisberg Gallery (thorugh Jan 26), and Al Loving: Torn Canvas at Gary Snyder Gallery (through Dec 29).
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http://altoonsultan.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-bright-spirituality-of-stephen.html
Altoon Sultan blogs about the exhibition Stephen Mueller: Selected Works 2007-2011 at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, on view through December 22, 2012.
Sultan writes: "The small works on paper, in their bright, almost wacky colors, and their translucent light, were joyful and meditative. I felt I was looking at a Western cousin to the brilliant Tantric paintings of India. The small paintings invite close, slow observation. Mueller approached each form with tender care, with a delicate precision that speaks of depth and attention rather than any kind of fussy obsessiveness. His control of his medium is exquisite: from flowing, subtle translucent shifts of hue, to careful opacities."
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http://artcritical.com/2011/09/18/stephen-mueller-2/
David Cohen remembers painter Stephen Mueller, who passed away on September 16, 2011 at the age of 63.
Cohen writes: "In his mature work – which was characterized by vibrant yet ingeniously modulated color choices and increment-free paint surfaces (or in the case of watercolor, ethereal yet sumptuous stain) – the imagery manages to be at once cosmic and decorative... he traded in a kind of tantric gaiety that could collapse the boundaries between kitsch and the sublime."
