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Brian Cypher: Interview

via: Studio Critical
Ryan Cobourn: Interview

via: Painting Perceptions
Considering the Provisional

via: The Artblog

Martin Bromirski, Rachel LaBine, & Elizabeth Riley

Link to post:
http://structureandimagery.blogspot.com/2012/02/martin-bromirski-rachel-labine-and.html

Feb 23

Martin Bromirski, Untitled, 2011, 12 x 24 inches (courtesy Storefront Bushwick)

Paul Behnke photoblogs an exhibition of paintings by Martin Bromirski, Rachel LaBine, and Elizabeth Riley at Storefront Bushwick, on view through March 11, 2012.

The gallery notes that Bromirski, LaBine, and Riley share a free-wheeling, fractured sense of space, time, and reality, which they investigate in their work by stretching the boundaries of their practice."

via:

Structure and Imagery

Provisional Painting: Part 2

Link to Post:

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/features/provisional-painting-part-2/

The must read follow up to Raphael Rubinstein's influential essay "Provisional Painting."

Starting with James Lord's observations of Giacometti's intense process, a process that ended in abandonment, Rubinstein tests the theory of "provisional painting," asking: "What does it mean to believe that in order to create a work of art one must entertain the 'permanent possibility' of abandoning and to believe that something called 'freedom' inheres in this situation?"

via:

Art in America

The New Casualists

Link to Post:

http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2011/06/new-casualists.html

Sharon Butler posts about "the open proposition in contemporary abstraction." She writes: "There is a studied, passive-aggressive incompleteness to much of the most interesting abstract work that painters are making today. But the subversion of closure isn't their only priority. They also harbor a broader concern with multiple forms of imperfection... The painters take a meta approach that refers... back to the process of painting itself."

via:

Two Coats of Paint