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John Zurier: Atmosphere & Touch

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Jon Imber: The Spiral & the Source

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Andrew Masullo: Profile

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/arts/design/andrew-masullo-paints-his-way-to-whitney-biennial.html

Mar 22

Andrew Masullo, 4561, 2006-7, oil paint on canvas, 18 x 24 inches (courtesy Feature Inc.))

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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New York Times Art & Design

Whitney Biennial: Painting Strategies

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http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2012/03/painting-strategies-at-2012-whitney.html

Sharon Butler examines the paintings and painting strategies on view at the 2012 Whitney Biennial.

Butler writes that "the 2012 Biennial has adopted a modest DIY aesthetic that you might see at an artist-run gallery in, say, Bushwick. Overall, I liked the human scale of the objects, the emphasis on the handmade (as opposed to professionally fabricated), and the way painting infused several conceptually driven installations."

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Two Coats of Paint

Andrew Masullo at Zevitas

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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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New England Journal of Aesthetic Research

Forrest Bess: 100 Years

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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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Glasstire