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Anoka Faruqee @ Koenig & Clinton
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John Yau reviews Anoka Faruqee: Rainbows and Bruises at Koenig & Clinton , New York, on view through April 8, 2017. Yau concludes: “By opening up the geometric while maintaining a painstaking approach, Faruqee seems to have entered new, uncharted territory. While the Moireseries recalls the history of weaving and decorative fabrics, the white Circlepaintings evoke the […]
The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century
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David Carbone reviews Timothy Hyman’s new book The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century, published by Thames & Hudson. Carbone writes: “this [book] is not so much an ‘objective’ survey as a personal examination of specific works from the vastness of twentieth century achievements that Hyman believes can serve as a foundation for […]
Painting on Message @ the 2017 Whitney Biennial
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Jennifer Samet reviews painting at the The 2017 Whitney Biennial continues at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, on view through June 11, 2017. Samet writes: “This year, the Whitney Biennial includes plenty of painting. And — for the most part — the painting is on message. It’s eccentric figuration with political content. Some […]
Jennifer Coates: Interview
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Jennifer Samet interviews painter Jennifer Coates, whose exhibition All U Can Eat is on view at Freight + Volume Gallery, New York, through April 16, 2017. Coates: “There are a lot of painting jokes. There are all kinds of moments where I think I can pretend to be this or that artist. It is very satisfying. […]
R. B. Kitaj @ Marlborough Contemporary
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John Yau reviews R. B. Kitaj: The Exile at Home at Marlborough Contemporary, New York, on view through April 8, 2017. Yau writes: “B. Kitaj was passionately–one might almost say, defiantly–a literary painter. That was not a politic thing to be in the postwar art world, when abstraction became the mainstream and even most representational […]
Jordan Kasey: Strangely Lit and Shadowed Paintings
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Dennis Kardon reviews Jordan Kasey: Exoplanet at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, on view through March 12, 2017. Kardon writes: “The force that drives the engine of Kasey’s work is her eschewal of the flat-earth ideology (collaged, cartoony or photo-derived, super-flat figuration) of many of her contemporaries. Although sharing formal explorations with older painters like […]
Craig Stockwell: Interview
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Jennifer Samet interviews painter Craig Stockwell whose work is included in the 2016 deCordova New England Biennial, at the de Cordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, on view through March 26, 2017. Stockwell remarks: “In our contemporary political moment, there is a conversation about control and freedom happening — on both sides. The conversation between […]
Steve DiBenedetto @ Cherry and Martin
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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 […]
Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports @ The Frick
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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 […]
Chuck Webster @ Betty Cuningham
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John Yau reviews Chuck Webster: Look Around at Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, on view through February 18, 2017. Yau writes: “‘Liberty or Death’ is a breakthrough painting for Webster and, in that regard, a major step for this artist, whose work is always interesting. For one thing, he has opened up a vast space which […]
The Subtle Madness of Larry Poons & Jean Dubuffet
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Robert C. Morgan reviews Jean Dubuffet and Larry Poons: Material Topologies at Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, on view through February 18, 2017. Morgan writes: “We know that both [Dubuffet and Poons] are painters, but culturally, they appear to have been informed by different attributes regarding scale and color, line, and force of visual impact… […]
Tamara Gonzales @ Klaus von Nichtssagend
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Hrag Vartanian reviews Tamara Gonzales: Ometeoli at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, on view through February 11, 2017. Vartanian writes: “Gonzales is known for incorporating visual culture that has traditionally been more associated with lived culture — lace, graffiti, embroidery, textiles — rather than the world of art galleries. … Her true subject matter […]
Eleanore Mikus @ Craig F. Starr
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John Yau reviews Eleanore Mikus: Tablets and Related Works, 1960–69 at Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, on view through March 25, 2017. Yau rites: “[Eleanore Mikus] brought together nuance and structure, making them into a subtly captivating experience… she is clearly uninterested in the perfection we associate with the Minimalist aesthetic, and with artists […]
Tal R: Interview
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Jennifer Samet interviews painter Tal R whose exhibition Tal R: Keyhole is on view at Cheim & Read through February 11, 2017. Tal R remarks: “Bonnard and Matisse are much more dangerous to get close to than some Surrealist painter from Helsinki in the 1940s. Think about the artists your mother would like (and who […]
Henri Fantin-Latour @ the Musée du Luxembourg
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Joseph Nechvatal reviews Henri Fantin-Latour: À fleur de peau at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, on view through February 12, 2017. Nechvatal writes: “Henri Fantin-Latour’s 19th-century Realist paintings … remind us that the real must be processed through the flesh and the blood of our eyes. In his early, clear-eyed (yet lovely) paintings that celebrate […]
Ed Clark @ the Tilton Gallery
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John Yau reviews Ed Clark: Paintings at the Tilton Gallery, New York, on view through February 18, 2017. Yau writes: “Clark’s approach is simple and straightforward, and he has not altered it much over the years. I don’t think he needs to. I think what needs to happen is to bring together in an exhibition […]
Myron Stout’s Desire for the Unattainable
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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. […]
Marina Adams @ Salon 94
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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 […]
Francis Picabia’s Prescient, Painterly Promiscuousness
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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 […]
Diana Copperwhite: Signal to Noise
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Stephen Maine reviews Diana Copperwhite: Depend on the Morning Sun at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel,New York, on view through January 28, 2017. Maine writes: “Copperwhite has hit upon a crazily recognizable way of applying paint that both updates (somewhat tongue-in-cheekily) the concept of the “autographic mark” so prized by the analysts of Abstract Expressionism, and […]