Simon Ling & Chris Ofili: In Conversation
Simon Ling and Chris Ofili discuss painting on the occasion of the exhibition Painting Now: Five Contemporary Artists at Tate Britain, on view from November 12 – February 9. 2014. The show features works by Tomma Abts, Gillian Carnegie, Simon Ling, Lucy McKenzie, and Catherine Story. Ling comments: “Painting is really good at getting you […]
René Magritte: Mystery of the Ordinary
Mario Naves reviews the exhibition Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on view through January 12, 2014. Naves writes: "An illustrator by trade, Magritte didn’t extend himself when putting brush to canvas. The requisite job and nothing more—technique wasn’t allowed to intrude on the artist’s dreamscapes. […]
Joan Waltemath: The Dinwoodies
A.V. Ryan reviews the recent exhibition Joan Waltemath: The Dinwoodies at Schema Projects in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Ryan writes that Waltemath's "drawings engage the architecture of the storefront gallery in such singular and delightful ways that the works might have been composed for the space like an occasional poem. Four of the pieces run floor-to-ceiling and […]
The Most Beautiful Drawing in the World
Thomas Micchelli blogs about Leonardo da Vinci's drawing Head of a Young Woman (Study for the Angel in the ‘Virgin of the Rocks’) on view in the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Treasures from the Biblioteca Reale, Turin at the Morgan Library, New York, through February 2, 2014. Micchelli writes that "the drawing is imperfect, which […]
Mystical Modernism / Bushwick & Queens Painting
James Panero visits the Nicholas Roerich Museum and reviews several current exhibitions including: Meg Hitchcock: The Land of Bliss at Studio10, Brooklyn (through November 10), Judith Linhares and Loren Munk with Rebecca Litt at Valentine Gallery, Ridgewood, Queens (through November 17), Meta Vista at 16 Wilson, Brooklyn (through November 9), and Scale at Life on Mars, […]
Painterly Realism: An Incomplete History
Jed Perl reviews the exhibition See It Loud: Seven Post-War American Painters at the National Academy Museum, New York, on view through January 26, 2014. The show features work by Leland Bell, Paul Georges, Peter Heinemann, Albert Kresch, Stanley Lewis, Paul Resika and Neil Welliver. Perl writes that the show fails to offer "the expansive […]
Josh Reames: Interview
Kevin Blake interviews painter Josh Reames about his work. Reames comments: "I think all of the work addresses escapism, just in varied ways. The tropical imagery and psychedelic drug references are just as involved with escapism as the act of painting is. The eclectic read is a product of my scattered focus, which is probably […]
Gregory Amenoff: Trace
Lee Ann Norman reviews the exhibition Gregory Amenoff: Trace at Alexandre Gallery, New York, on view through November 23, 2013. Norman writes that "Amenoff’s compositions generally place a shape or form against an implied landscape, seascape, or vegetation. His images are full of organic color whirls and disjointed geometric shapes that burst, zigzag, and flow […]
Regina Bogat: Interview
Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy talk with painter Regina Bogat at her exhibition Regina Bogat: The New York Years, 1960-1970 at Zürcher Studio, New York, on view through November 2, 2013. Bogat reamrks that in her works "I try to do things I've never seen before… just let your unconsious roam. I love the freedom […]
Julie Heffernan: Interview
Jonathan Beer and Lily Koto Olive interview painter Julie Heffernan on the occasion of her exhibition Sky is Falling at P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, on view through November 16, 2013. Heffernan comments that "the figures (and everything else in the paintings for that matter) continue to make sense to me only when I think of […]
David Hockney @ the de Young
Liz Hager reviews the exhibition David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition at the De Young Museum, San Francisco, on view through January 20, 2014. Hager writes: "Color is Hockney’s seductive Siren, and she is both an asset and a liability. Taken as individual compositions, the bright saturated colors delight. Hockney Woods is a cheery place full […]
Rogier van der Weyden’s Heritage
Julie Beckers reviews the exhibition The Heritage of Rogier van der Weyden: Painting in Brussels 1450-1520 at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, on view through January 26, 2014. Beckers writes that "the exhibition is more about what Van der Weyden left behind and those who followed his style of painting after […]
John Lees & Janice Nowinski
John Goodrich reviews exhibitions by John Lees and Janice Nowinski at John Davis Gallery in Hudson, New York, on view through November 3, 2013. Goodrich writes that Lees' "encrusted, luminous layers of color that lend a transcendental glow to paintings poised somewhere between cartoons and devotional images. Some works impart to everyday sights – a […]
John Carter: Between Painting & Sculpture
Andrew Bick reviews the work of John Carter, on view in two concurrent exhibitions: John Carter: Surface and Structure at Redfern Gallery, London (through November 15) and Between Dimensions, Tennant Gallery, Royal Academy (through February 16, 2014). Bick writes that "the components of painting and sculpture are held in tension within what [Carter] makes." Bick concludes […]
Shirley Jaffe: Paintings from the 1970s
John Yau reviews the exhibition Shirley Jaffe: Paintings from the 1970s at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, on view through November 23, 2013. Yau writes that "Jaffe uses different palettes and combinations of color throughout each painting. These distinct combinations infuse each of the painting’s sections with its own individuality. Something different is found […]
Alex Katz: Small Paintings
Lauren Henkin reviews Alex Katz: Small Paintings 1987-2013 at Peter Blum Gallery, New York, on view through November 2, 2013. Henkin writes that "the chance to view works from this celebrated artist in the up-close—small, intimate and unexpected paintings that for me, bring fresh life to my understanding of his work. In the show of […]
Rod Penner: Interview
John Seed interviews painter Rod Penner on the occasion of Penner's exhibition at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, on view through November 23, 2013. Penner comments: "You won't find any hidden or overt socio-political meaning in my work and at the same time I hope that by utilizing what I find in the […]
John Grillo @ David Findlay Jr
Steven Alexander blogs about the recent exhibition John Grillo: Works from the 1940s, 50s and 60s at David Findlay Jr Gallery, New York. Alexander writes: "Grillo's inventiveness is manifested in surprising poetic explorations that are freewheeling, fresh, and utterly without pretense. His paintings carve out and hold their own humble, playful, vital place in the […]
Kyle Staver @ Tibor de Nagy
John Yau reviews the exhibition Kyle Staver: Recent Paintings continues at Tibor de Nagy, New York, on view through November 23, 2013. Yau writes that in Staver's painting Daphne (2013), the figure's "feeling of being hemmed in by the painting’s physical parameters is contradicted by Daphne’s new identity as a laurel tree, a living and […]
Anna Kunz: Interview
Painter's Bread
Michael Rutherford interviews painter Anna Kunz about her work. Asked about the "supplemental appendages" that extend from her paintings, Kunz remarks: "They gesture out to the viewer. The space around the painting is included, and the painting breaks a little free of its format. The shadows that are created by the work are implicated. I […]