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James Panero reviews six exhibitions currently on view in New York: Thornton Willis: Steps at Elizabeth Harris Gallery (through April 13), Painted on 21st Street: Helen Frankenthaler from 1950 to 1959 at Gagosian Gallery (through April 13), Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966–2013 at the Hunter College/Times Square Gallery (through April 20), Judith Braun: May I Draw at Joe Sheftel Gallery (through April 21), Paul D’Agostino: Twilit Ensembles at Pocket Utopia (through April 21), and Joe Zucker: Empire Descending a Staircase at Mary Boone Gallery (through April 27).
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Piri Halasz reviews ten current and recent painting exhibitions in New York including: Jim Dine and Thomas Nozkowski at Pace, Going Into the Dark at The Painting Center, Walt Kuhn: American Modern at DC Moore, Marina Adams: Coming Through Strange at Hionas Gallery, Walter Robinson: Indulgences, Recent Paintings & Works on Paper at Dorian Gray (through March 31), Franz Kline: Coal and Steel at Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, Christine Hughes and Francine Kornfeld at Art 101, Jean-Michel Basquiat at Gagosian (through April 6), and Thornton Willis: Steps at Elizabeth Harris (through April 13).
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Xico Greenwald visits two abstract painting exhibitions: Thornton Willis: Steps at Elizabeth Harris Gallery (through April 13) and Al Held: Alphabet Paintings at Cheim & Read (through April 20).
Greenwald writes that despite "superficial similarities, the works on display reflect the strikingly different temperaments and intentions of two ambitious abstract artists... Willis’ work comes out of a belief that 'painting is mystical, even magical,' whereas Held’s paintings, enormous objects influenced by Minimalism’s principle of Gestalt and objecthood, have been willed into existence. Gallery visitors have a chance to see where their allegiance lies."
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James Panero visits the studio of painter Thornton Willis.
Panero writes that Willis' "abstractions are a blend of geometry and intuition. For his latest series, he pares down his forms and used strong color contrasts to energize the tension between figure and ground... Thornton is one of Soho's artist pioneers. He and his family moved into the loft where he lives and works in the 1970s. Over the past decade, his work has attracted a new range of interest. "
An exhibition of new work by Thornton Willis will be on view at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York from March 14 - April 13, 2013.
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James Kalm records the exhibition Thornton Willis at Elizabeth Harris Gallery through April 23, 2011. "Accomplished with the artist's masterful brushwork, and an intense palette, these works begin a new direction of painterly investigation." The video begins with a walk-through of the show and includes an interview with Willis that starts at about 6:08.
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Maureen Mullarkey reviews an exhibition of new paintings by Thornton Willis at Elizabeth Harris Gallery. Mullarkey revokes the grid as a modernist invention rededicating it to its "ancient" roots in "town planning." She calls Willis' exhibition "a vivid, if unpremeditated, evocation of the concerns of Russian Supremacism and its parallel movement, Constructivism. Both currents were based on geometrics; both were tethered to architecture no less than to painting."
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[VIDEO] Painter Thonton Willis in his studio. Willis speaks about his work, in particular his process of searching through painting, and the surprising results that can occur when a painting is pushed beyond initial solutions.
