Reviews
Paul Nash @ Tate Britain
London Review of Books
T.J. Clark writes about works by Paul Nash at Tate Britain, London, on view through March 5, 2017. Clark begins: “Paul Nash is as close as we come, many think, to having a strong painter of the English landscape in the 20th century. The uncertainties built into the wording here are part of the point: […]
Aubrey Levinthal @ The Painting Center
New York Sun Arts
Xico Greenwald reviews Aubrey Levinthal: Refrigerator Paintings on view at The Painting Center, New York, through January 28, 2017. Greenwald writes: “Milk jugs and the condiments in the icebox are arranged into formally rigorous compositions that show off Ms. Levinthal’s feel for paint… her unpretentious canvases of everyday subjects dialogue with modern masters, particularly School […]
Kerry James Marshall’s Enigmatic Authority
The Nation
Barry Schwabsky reviews Kerry James Marshall: Mastry at the Met Breuer, New York, on view through January 29, 2017. Schwabsky observes: “Marshall is something we haven’t seen for a while, at least in a very convincing way: He is what Baudelaire called for 171 years ago, a painter of the heroism of modern life—and the fact […]
Michael Andrews: Earth, Air, Water
The Independent
Michael Glover reviews Michael Andrews: Earth, Air, Water at Gagosian Gallery, London, on view through March 25, 2017. Writing about Andrews’ painting Thames Painting: The Estuary (1994–95), Glover asks: “What exactly is the painting’s vantage point? High, certainly, almost sea-gull high perhaps. We teeter there, looking down, across, and side to side, never quite getting […]
Before Realism: Valentin de Boulogne & the Brothers Le Nain
Art in America
Richard Neer writes: “Valentin [de Boulogne] … was … a leading exponent of a style of painting that Caravaggio had pioneered a generation earlier: shadowy, dramatically lit scenes drawn directly from life that pushed the boundaries of good taste through a commitment to verisimilitude and déclassé subject matter. With his death, that Caravaggesque tradition lost […]
Dan Ramirez @ Zolla/Lieberman
New City Art
Mark Pohlad reviews at Dan Ramirez: Alatheia at Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, on view through February 4, 2017. Pohlad writes: “Ramirez’s art builds on stark contrasts—color against monotone, geometric versus rounded forms, metallic surfaces adjacent to wood—combined in fugal counterpoint. Recalling the paintings of Barnett Newman, one of his inspirations, Ramirez’s elegant forms are decidedly vertical. […]
Myron Stout’s Desire for the Unattainable
Hyperallergic
John Yau reviews a recent exhibition of works by Myron Stout at Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York. Yau writes that Stout “expresses neither angst nor impatience with his process. His work arises out of the paradoxical combination of paring everything down, while employing a process of patient accretion. He caressed his work into being. […]
Paul Nash’s Commitment to the English Landscape
Apollo Magazine
Peter Parker reviews works by Paul Nash at Tate Britain, London, on view through March 5, 2017. Parker writes: “… the overarching theme remains Nash’s lifelong engagement with the English landscape. In his fragmentary autobiography … Nash recalled his sudden youthful awareness in Kensington Gardens of the meaning of place: ‘there was a peculiar spacing […]
David Hockney @ the Tate
The Guardian
Olivia Laing previews the exhibition David Hockney which will be on view at Tate Britain from February 9 – May 29, 2017. Laing writes: “As a spectacular new retrospective at Tate Britain makes clear … twists and turns in thematic preoccupations and new techniques [explored by Hockney throughout his career] do not represent a lack […]
Matthew Dibble: Useful Pressures
ArtSlant
Carol Heft writes about Matthew Dibble: Useful Pressures at First Street Gallery, New York, on view through January 28, 2017. Heft observes: “The materials themselves inspire an animated, personal vocabulary, informed by their intrinsic qualities and the great tradition of abstract expressionism, often with a figurative nod. The artist uses industrial paints and adhesives, staples, […]
Ginny Casey @ Half Gallery
Art in America
Eric Sutphin reviews a recent exhibition of works by Ginny Casey at Half Gallery, New York. Sutphin writes: “Casey synthesizes the influences of painters ranging from Milton Avery to Morandi to Guston in wholly original paintings that cast a universe of specific objects (invented or real) in scenes that celebrate play and creative mischief… Casey […]
TAL R at Cheim and Read
Steven Alexander Journal
Steven Alexander blogs about TAL R: Keyhole at Cheim and Read, New York, on view through February 11, 2017. Alexander writes: “The paintings are made with raw pigment and rabbit skin glue on rough linen, which creates a unique scumbled surface and sensual vibrant color. These are breathtakingly beautiful pieces that operate as brilliant metaphors […]
Matisse/Diebenkorn in Baltimore
ARTnews
Phyllis Tuchman reviews Matisse/Diebenkorn at the Baltimore Museum of Art, on view through January 29, 2017. Tuchman asserts: “Astonishingly, Diebenkorn’s paintings in Baltimore are never overshadowed, as you might expect, by Matisse’s masterpieces. The American … doesn’t just hold his own: he actually upstages Matisse… Like Matisse, he’s become the type of artist we expect to […]
Marina Adams @ Salon 94
Hyperallergic
John Yau reviews Marina Adams: Soft Power at Salon 94 Bowery, New York, on view through February 22, 2016. Yau observes: “The rounded edges of Adams’s biomorphic forms suggest that they are — as the exhibition’s title suggests — soft. While some of forms are interlocking or held in place by other forms, their grip […]
Surreal/Unreal @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Lita Barrie: Huffington Post Arts
Lita Barrie reviews Surreal/Unreal at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, on view through February 18, 2017. The show features works by Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Georgio de Chirico, Joan Miro, Dorothea Tanning, Hans Bellmer, Jacques Herold, Oskar Fischinger, Frederick Kann, Rufino Tamayo, Roberto Matta, Jose Luis Cuevas, Wilfredo Lam, Oswaldo Vigas, Alexander Calder, Hans […]
Luchita Hurtado @ Park View Gallery
LA Times
Christopher Knight reviews works by Luchita Hurtado recently on view at Park View Gallery, Los Angeles. Knight writes: “[Hurtado’s] drawings’ loosely Surrealist forms recall dense pictographs from a variety of cultures, ancient and modern. Among them are prehistoric cave paintings, Northwest and Southwest tribal art, pre-Columbian reliefs and the abstract paintings and sculptures of Chinese-Afro-Cuban […]
Bonnard: En toute intimité
Studio International
Anna McNay reviews Bonnard: En toute intimité at the Musée Bonnard, Le Cannet, France, on view through April 23, 2017. McNay begins: “With the title Bonnard: En toute intimité, one might well expect an exhibition focusing on the artist’s nudes, or more erotic elements of his work, but, just as Tracey Emin’s tent, Everyone I […]
Louise Belcourt @ Locks Gallery
The Artblog
Rachel Sitkin reviews paintings by Louise Belcourt at Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, on view through February 4, 2017. Sitkin writes: “Blocky shapes pile upwards from the horizon line at the bottom edge of each canvas and coalesce into abstracted vistas. Belcourt utilizes an organic approach to perspective and sophisticated shifts in color to render depth, space, […]
William Merritt Chase @ the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The New Criterion
Franklin Einspruch reviews William Merritt Chase at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, on view through January 16, 2017. Einspruch observes: “There is also Hide and Seek (1888), in which a golden-haired girl (and good heavens, the paint handling on that hair is exceptional), ensconced in the lower left corner of the picture, peers from […]
Francis Picabia’s Prescient, Painterly Promiscuousness
Hyperallergic
Dennis Kardon reviews Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) on view through March 19, 2017. Kardon writes: Kardon writes: “Picabia, a pioneering modernist, has long been known as an early cubist and a leader of the anarchic Dada movement, while his later […]