Kazimir Malevich: Untethered Spirit
Mark Stone considers Kazimir Malevich's spiritual approach to painting and Suprematism's affect on later modern and post-modern paintings. Stone writes that "what begins to happen in the Square, Cross and Stripe is that the painting is no longer a painting of a thing, but has indeed become a thing in itself. The form, the shape […]
Nick Carrick: Interview
Valerie Brennan interviews painter Nick Carrick about his work and process. Carrick comments: "I want the work to take on a life of its own freed from its referent. The act of painting becomes as important as the final piece. It’s important to feel lost between the start and the finish of a painting but […]
Liam Everett: Interview
Steven Cox interviews artist Liam Everett about his work. Cox notes that "Everett has consciously chosen to focus on his processes of painting as an act of labour." Asked about this process-based approach Everett comments: "The surfaces are a result of a relentless process of addition and subtraction. The finished paintings are in fact an […]
Form / Function
Andy Parkinson reviews the exhibition Form/Function, curated by Lisa Denyer and Matthew Macaulay, at Piccadilly Place Manchester, UK, on view through until September 22, 2013. The show features works by Brendan Lancaster, Joe Packer, Karl Bielik, Lisa Denyer, Matthew Macaulay, Melanie Russell, Phoebe Mitchell, Rachael Macarthur, Sarah McNulty, and Terry Greene. Parkinson writes: "At Form/Function […]
Elizabeth McCord: Paintings
Preview of the exhibition Elizabeth McCord: Paintings at See Line Gallery, Pacific Design Center, on view from September 18 – November 8, 2013. This show of Elizabeth McCord's paintings "both deepens and expands upon the ongoing—and long overdue—rediscovery and reevaluation of this seminal modernist’s work. The biomorphic, hard-edge forms of the 1950s give way, in […]
Biala: Vision & Memory
Xico Greenwald blogs about the exhibition Biala: Vision & Memory at Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, on view through October 26, 2013. Biala's work is also on view at Tibor de Nagy Gallery through October 27, 2013. Greenwald writes: "Neither during her long life nor in the years since her death has Biala’s contribution to art […]
David Malek: Studio Visit
Maria Calandra visits the studio of painter David Malek. Calandra writes about Malek's new paintings in which "enamel paint, his obsessive tendencies, and a time consuming amount of brushwork result in a canvas that really gives the viewer the optical go around, posing questions that lead to more than one conclusion on the process of […]
Alain Biltereyst @ Devening Projects
Alan Pocaro reviews the exhibition Alain Biltereyst: Notes at Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, on view through October 12, 2013. Pocaro writes: "The twenty-five untitled panels that line the East Garfield Park gallery’s project room evoke the sort of slick signage that proliferates in the urban landscape. Crisp lines, flat, decorative color and primary shapes […]
Meghan Petras: Interview
Auggie Oz interviews painter Meghan Petras whose work is currently on view in the group exhibition A Pinch of Saffron, Dash of Vermouth curated by Ted Gahl, on view, at Dodge Gallery, New York through October 27, 2013. Oz writes: "Petras’ paintings are painted mostly with fabric paint, which she then cuts up and reassembles […]
Discovering L.S. Lowry
Sanford Schwartz reviews the exhibition Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life at Tate Britain, London, on view through October 20, 2013. Schwartz writes: "A native of Manchester who spent his life in the region, Lowry was, remarkably, Britain’s only visual artist to make industrial Lancashire, with its factories and smoke-belching chimneys and crowded streets, […]
See It Loud: Seven Post-War American Painters
Three videos provide an excellent introduction to a group of painters who pursue(d) an expansive painterly vision in an era defined by increasingly reductive approaches in art.
Moving Beyond: Painting in China
Darran Anderson reviews the exhibition Moving Beyond: Painting in China 2013 at Summerhall, Edinburgh, on view through September 27, 2013. Anderson writes: "While an eclectic series of artists with very distinct voices, there are thrilling thematic and stylistic links between those featured in Moving Beyond, sometimes complimentary and sometimes contradictory. Repeated themes emerge in very […]
Debra Ramsay: Studio Visit
Paul Behnke visits the studio of artist Debra Ramsay. Ramsay says of her work: "My creative process develops around repetitive and serial systems. I’m caught up in subtle calculations and decisions of proportion and interrelationships. Once I develop the system for the specific project and determine the calculations, what remains is a form of meditation: […]
Paul Feeley: Eye-Opener
John Yau reviews the exhibition Paul Feeley: 1957 -1962 at Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, on view through October 12, 2013. Yau writes: "By shifting the focus to 1957–’62 — the latter being the year that Feeley began making the emblematic abstractions that seemed to have secured his reputation — we learn that the oeuvre […]
Julie Torres: By Way of the Eyes
Armand Dupuy writes about the work of painter Julie Torres. Dupuy notes: "It might seem strange, but discovering the artwork of Julie Torres, has led me to sense a resurgence of those feelings I'd first had when seeing Degas' L'étoile. I've relocated that sense of wonder, that sense of discrete shock, of eyes flung wide […]
Jeffrey Reed: Interview
Larry Groff interviews painter Jeffrey Reed whose work is on view at Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia through September 28, 2013. Discussing working outdoors in rapidly changing weather conditions, Reed comments: "I do like being outside when the light and weather are changing. I have lost some paintings certainly, but I have also saved some paintings […]
Stephen Maine: Studio Visit
Christopher Joy and Zachary Keeting visit the studio of painter Stephen Maine. Discussing his relationship to the image in his paintings, Maine comments: "My effort is to try to control the contact of the material to the surface of the panel or the canvas in such a way the reading of it remains very open." […]
Dorothea Rockburne: Interview
Tyler Green interviews artist Dorothea Rockburne about her work on the occasion of the exhibition Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, on view from September 21, 2013 – January 20, 2014. Asked about her folded drawings, Rockburne comments: "I studied topology, that was my study in math… […]
Jack Whitten: Interview
Scott Indrisek interviews painter Jack Whitten on the occasion of Whitten's exhibition at Alexander Gray Associates, New York, on view through October 12, 2013. Discussing the acrylic collage technique in his recent paintings, Whitten comments: "Collage has been sort of the keystone of modernist thought. With Picasso, with Matisse. What I have done is remove […]
Karla Wozniak: This Weather Is Cosmic
Barbara Morris reviews the recent exhibition Karla Wozniak: This Weather Is Cosmic at Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco. Morris writes that Wozniak's "colorful reflections on the landscape resonate with an underlying sense of logic. As with her earlier landscape-based work, even more focused on roadside signage and motels, the imagery of these paintings is derived […]