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Jacques Callot: Line Sublime

via: The New Republic
Dan Walsh: Interview

via: Contemporary Art Daily
Gazes and Shadows

via: Aeqai

Martha Diamond: Bright Brush

Link to post:
http://www.artcritical.com/2012/06/30/martha-diamond/

Jul 30

Martha Diamond, Church IV, 2010, oil on board, 15 x 10 inches (courtesy of Sue Scott Gallery)

Ilka Scobie reviews the exhibition Martha Diamond: Bright Brush Paintings at Sue Scott Gallery, New York, on view through July 27, 2012.

Scobie writes that "the abbreviated brushstrokes [Diamond's] now using create gestural markings and simplified imagery, leaping from the austere though under-painted Pentimento to the linear brevity used to playfully depict weather in Blue 1. A platform built of flat marks provides a pedestal for the enigmatic figures of Philosophe... This show represents the efflorescence of an artist who has always been passionate about paint, interested in brush stoke, color, image."

via:

artcritical

Joanne Greenbaum: Studio Visit

Link to Post:

http://hyperallergic.com/53700/studio-visit-with-an-artist-who-is-no-longer-a-secret-ceramicist/

John Yau visits the studio of painter Joanne Greenbaum and looks at Greenbaum's other body of work - ceramics - and the relationship between the two modes of working.

Yau writes: "The layering and structuring going on in Greenbaum's current paintings are swayed by her exploration of ceramics. I see her interest in glazes, and her impulse to use them in unconventional ways. This influences her palette, leading her to juxtapositions of different groupings of color within the same painting. At the same time... the ceramics are not a subsidiary of the paintings - they stand on their own. In their folds and bends, and in the way the different colored glazes might run down uneven surfaces, something particular happens, something that Greenbaum got to happen."

via:

Hyperallergic

Double Vision

Link to Post:

http://patternsthatconnext.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/double-vision-at-lion-and-lamb-gallery/

Andy Parkinson blogs about the exhibition Double Vision, curated by Katrina Blannin, at at Lion and Lamb Gallery, London, on view through July 14, 2012.

Parkinson writes that the show's title "alludes to 'notions of double layering in painting, whether material, compositional or theoretical.' It explores binary oppositions like figure/ground, surface/depth, symmetry/asymmetry and chance/system, oppositions that are, in a sense, combined or held together, which in language might be oxymoronic but in painting seems perfectly natural. I wonder if we might even say that holding together opposites and exploiting ambiguities in relation to them is what abstract painting does best."

via:

Patterns That Connect