Sharon Butler blogs about painter Claude Viallat and the Supports/Surfaces group in relation to contemporary painting.  

Butler remarks that Viallat's work "strikes me as a precursor to the Casualist aesthetic… I find Viallat's relationship to the Casualist abstraction of artists such as Chris Martin, Rochelle Feinstein, Tatiana Berg, and Lauren Luloff fascinating."

Claude Viallat: Peintures et objets is on view at Bernard Ceysson, Saint-Étienne through January 31, 2012.