Reviews
Hercules Segers: Master of the Unreal
New York Review of Books
Christopher Benfey reviews The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on view through May 21, 2017. Benfey writes: “An air of unreality hangs over the astonishing exhibition of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Hercules Segers … More than once, I found myself wondering whether this extraordinary etcher and painter—the creator […]
Elliott Green @ Pierogi
Hamptons Art Hub
Peter Malone reviews Elliott Green: Human Nature at Pierogi Gallery, New York, through March 26, 2017. Malone writes: “What’s unique about Elliott Green is how he strides confidently right over the rumbling fracture. Brandishing all manner of surface gymnastics, he takes the staid genre of landscape painting and puts it through a gantlet of techniques […]
Alfred Sisley @ the Bruce Museum
Hamptons Art Hub
Susan Hodara reviews Alfred Sisley (1839-1899): Impressionist Master, an exhibition of 50 paintings at the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, on view through May 21, 2017. Hodara notes that the show “is the artist’s first retrospective in the United States in more than 20 years… [curator MaryAnne Stevens] described Sisley as ‘a pure Impressionist.’ A dedicated […]
Douglas Witmer’s Simplicity
Two Coats of Paint
Becky Huff Hunter reviews Douglas Witmer: Dubh Glas at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, on view through March 12, 2017. Hunter writes: “Each work in Witmer’s austere Winterbrook (2015‒17) series of six small panels brings out a different relational quality between paint and canvas: black wash opens up the flawed pores of the canvas grain; dense, dry paint […]
Alexei Jawlensky @ Neue Galerie
Studio International
Natasha Kurchanova reviews Alexei Jawlensky at the Neue Galerie, New York, on view through May 29, 2017. Kurchanova writes: “Jawlensky was close to many of his well-known compatriots and colleagues who either migrated to Germany or resided there, including Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, Paul Klee and Ferdinand Hodler. The influence of these artists becomes manifest […]
Antoni Tàpies: Revulsion and Desire
Apollo Magazine
Robert Barry reviews Antoni Tàpies: Revulsion and Desire at Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, on view through March 18, 2017. Barry writes: “There is a remarkable consistency in the work here, made between 1999 and 2011. All eight paintings eschew canvas for wood, often left raw and unvarnished, and share a sepia-toned palette of browns and […]
Beverly Fishman: The Drug of Abstraction
Art in America
Jason Stopa interviews painter Beverly Fishman on the occasion of her show DOSE, curated by Nick Cave, at the CUE Art Foundation, New York, on view through April 5, 2017. Fishman comments: “I believe that it’s important that the viewer know my content. That’s why I think my titles are significant, because they help to […]
Alice Neel Uptown
Artnet News
Christian Viveros-Fauné reviews Alice Neel, Uptown, curated by Hilton Als, at David Zwirner Gallery, New York, on view through April 22, 2017. Viveros-Fauné writes: “An argument can be made that Neel reserved her best, most perceptive nose for difference for her less known sitters… These pictures and others are not only unmarred by agendas of […]
Seurat’s Circus Sideshow @ the Met
ARTnews
Phyllis Tuchman reviews Seurat’s Circus Sideshow at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on view through May 29, 2017. Tuchman writes: “As in his other major works, Seurat was portraying an actual place in Circus Sideshow (Parade de Cirque)… A sequence of nine gas lamps perched above the temporary stage illuminates the scene; another […]
Adrian Ghenie @ Pace
artcritical
Roman Kalinovski reviews a recent exhibition of works by Adrian Ghenie at Pace Gallery, New York. Kalinovski writes: “Ghenie has become, for one reason or another, the figurehead of the Cluj school of figurative painters. A decade ago, he captivated the art world with bleak images of life under Ceaușescu during the waning days of […]
America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s
The Guardian
Laura Cumming reviews America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, on view through June 4, 2017. Cumming writes: “In the truest sense, these works are signs of the times. They hold an entire American decade intact with their images of factories, docks, gas pumps and turbines, of […]
An Embarrassment of Riches: The Shchukin Collection
ARTnews
Maika Pollack reviews Icons of Modern Art: The Shchukin Collection at The Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, on view through March 5, 2017. Pollack writes: “A single room in which 13 vast Matisse paintings hang is the highlight of the exhibition. These are only a fraction of Shchukin’s 43 Matisses, but each is a knockout: In […]
Ron Gorchov @ Cheim & Read
James Kalm Rough Cut
James Kalm visits an exhibition of new works by Ron Gorchov at Cheim & Read, New York, on view through March 25, 2017. Kalm notes: “Known for his unique ‘saddle-shaped’ canvases, Gorchov is also appreciated for his light touch and elegant color sense. There’s a natural seductiveness to the shaped supports, and the manifest process […]
David Humphrey @ Fredericks & Freiser
Two Coats of Paint
Jonathan Stevenson reviews David Humphrey: I’m Glad We Had This Conversation at Fredericks & Freiser, New York, on view through February 25, 2017. Stevenson begins: “David Humphrey’s visual and intellectual virtuosity – augmented by the smooth surface finality of meticulously applied acrylic paint – is such that he seems to accomplish everything he wants in […]
Steve DiBenedetto @ Cherry and Martin
Hyperallergic
Daniel Gerwin reviews Steve DiBenedetto: Novelty Mapping Picnic at Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, on view through March 4, 2017. Gerwin writes: “‘Influx’ (2016) is my favorite piece — a little carnival of a painting whose stunning relationships of hot pinks, acrid greens, and chilly yellows has such a mystifying surface that even after DiBenedetto […]
Alexei Jawlensky & Vija Celmins
The New Yorker
Peter Schjeldahl reviews Alexei Jawlensky at the Neue Galerie, New York (through May 29) and Vija Celmins at Matthew Marks, New York (through April 15). Schjeldahl writes: “… The [Jawlensky] show ends with the kicker of a room of small, even tiny, paintings, unfamiliar to me, of an abstracted face. A black stripe serves for […]
Aubrey Levinthal’s Refrigerator Paintings
ARTnews
Ella Coon reviews Aubrey Levinthal: Refrigerator Paintings, recently on view at The Painting Center, New York. Coon writes: “The paintings’ quotidian content, fragmented imagery, and color choices make the pieces feel both elusive and earthy. When looking at the works together in the tiny space, the viewer is reminded of not only the bodily activity […]
Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports @ The Frick
Hyperallergic
Allison Meier previews Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages through Time which will be on view from at the Frick Collection, New York, from February 23 to May 14 , 2017. Meier writes: “Along with the era’s modernization and freedom of exchange, Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports considers the artist’s obsession with light in his […]
Mimi Lauter: Interiors
LA Times
Leah Ollman reviews Mimi Lauter: Interiors at Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles, on view through March 4, 2017. Ollman writes: “Mimi Lauter’s enthralling drawings have a visual grammar all their own. Their sense of scale is elusive and independent of their physical size. They feel immersive, whether small as a notebook page or large enough to […]
The Shchukin Collection at Fondation Louis Vuitton
AbCrit
Alan Gouk reviews Icons of Modern Art. The Collection Shchukin at The Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, on view through March 5, 2017. Gouk writes: “This is what was so apparent in the confrontations afforded here, however many times one may have seen some of these pictures in different contexts and settings; how solidly and succulently […]