Evan Nesbit & Kate Bonner
Matthew Marchand reviews work by Evan Nesbit & Kate Bonner, two artists in the group show Practicing To Pretend at Alter Space, San Francisco, on view through August 17, 2013. The show also includes work by David Bayus, Rebekah Goldstein, Nikki Painter, and Jonah Susskind. Marchand writes: "The artists / curators seem to be suggesting […]
Liu Xiaodong: Painting Life
Barnaby Martin profiles painter Liu Xiaodong whose work will be on view at Lisson Gallery, London from September 22 – November 7, 2013. Martin writes: "Liu does not paint from his imagination, or from photographs, preferring to carve out 'a set'from the corner of a pub, or a busy restaurant, or a side street in […]
Elise Schweitzer: Painting the Dramatic Moment
Elana Hagler interviews painter Elise Schweitzer about her work. Hagler introduces the interview by writing that Schweitzer "has a wonderful mix of formal invention and playful, curious narrative in her work. Many painters I’ve seen tend to fall into the formalist camp or the narrative camp, and one of the things that I very much […]
Ramshackle Kaleidoscope
Ryan Wong reviews the recent exhibition Ramshackle Kaleidoscope at the ArtBridge Drawing Room, New York. Curated by Jordana Zeldin, the show features work by Sarah Bednarek, Amelia Midori Miller, and Christian Sampson. Wong writes: "Casualists tend towards the jokey and intentionally timid, but the three artists here – Christian Sampson, Amelia Midori Miller, and Sarah […]
Jackson Pollock: Reappraised
After several decades of looking at works by Jackson Pollock, Alan Gouk finds Pollock's paintings to be "an extreme point of style. His art with all its multifarious associations is inseparable from the drip technique and his labile drawing style, volatile, looping, drooping, a cursiveness released from the definition of specific 'form,' and yet still […]
Peri Schwartz: Interview
John Seed interviews painter Peri Schwartz whose work is currently on view in the three-person exhibition Dwellings: Christopher Benson, Tom Birkner, and Peri Schwartz at Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, on view through August 24, 2013. Schwartz comments: "For me, finishing a painting is a balancing act. I want to retain the freshness of the […]
Pattern Recognition
On the occasion of the exhibition Pattern Recognition at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) in Brooklyn, Benjamin Sutton posts a slideshow and an interview with exhibition curator Dexter Wimberly. The show features works by Rushern Baker IV, Kimberly Becoat, Hugo McCloud, Duhirwe Rushemeza, and Sam Vernon. Wimberly comments: "There are absolutely clear […]
Richard Walker: Studio Visit
John Yau visits the studio of painter Richard Walker. Yau writes: "It seems that Walker stands at a table, working on a smooth, flat surface (Masonite), which lies flat. The only light comes from a data projector, which is attached to his laptop, and the vertical strips of daylight that gets past the blackout curtain. […]
Sarah Cain: Loud Object
Kelly Inouye reviews the exhibition Sarah Cain: Loud Object at Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, on view through August 16, 2013. Inouye writes "Cain’s paintings involve what, in lesser hands, might be considered bad ideas. Materials like cardboard, acrylic beads, safety pins, and plastic bags populate the work in 'Loud Object.' Her practice appears […]
Gina Beavers: Family Style
John Motley reviews the exhibition Gina Beavers: Family Style at Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon, on view through August 25, 2013. Motley writes: "Beavers' detailed painting coupled with her materials imbues her subjects with a perverse artifice that recasts the appetizing as repulsive. Rather than the age-old still life — a wine bottle and a collection […]
Basil King: Languages of Devotion
Tim Keane profiles painter and poet Basil King and reflects on King's 2011 book Learning to Draw / A History. Keane writes: "Making sense of the world through painting and writing seems less imperative to King than preserving the impetus and the means to carry on with what he calls the “unnatural” labor of expression. […]
Alfonso Ossorio: Elective Affinities
David Carrier reviews Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet at the Parrish Art Museum, on view through October 27, 2013. Carrier writes: "That Pollock and Dubuffet can happily cohabit as near equals is, of course no surprise. What here is up for grabs is Ossorio’s artistic relationship with these two modernist masters. He tends […]
Edgar Degas: For and Against Method
Barry Schwabsky reviews the exhibition Degas' Method at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, on view through September 1, 2013. Schwabsky writes that the show "focuses on [Degas'] aesthetic premises and representational strategies as they cut across medium, motif and the artist’s career… And yet, allergic as he was to the idea of method, of devising […]
Japanese Prints @ the Hood Museum
Altoon Sultan blogs about a recent exhibition of Japanese prints at the Hood Museum of Art. Sultan writes: "Images of the 'floating world'––ukiyo-e––a world of actors and courtesans, became a subject for prints in the late 17th century. The curators of this show chose to focus on the women of that world, leaving out the […]
Siri Kollandsrud: Interview
Valerie Brennan interviews painter Siri Kollandsrud about her work and process. Kollandsrud comments: "I might start a painting with a vague or clearer idea. It can come from everywhere or anything. Like a collage of visual and mental observations. Some things I see, think, or a composition, just to start. I put up something, and […]
Raphael Rubinstein: Interview
Christopher Joy visits the exhibition Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s at Cheim & Read, New York (through August 30) and talks with curator Raphael Rubinstein. Rubinstein comments: "There's sort of an official version of what happened in art in New York particularly in painting in the 1980s… as with any received version, it […]
David Whitaker: Waters of the Nile
Kate Tiernan reviews the exhibition David Whitaker Retrospective Part II: Waters of the Nile at Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, on view through August 2013. Tiernan writes: "'Collecting' atmospheric conditions and natural phenomenon that he had witnessed was integral when conceiving a work. Whitaker described this as a highly conceptual process, with the hope of capturing […]
Pete Hoida: In Conversation
Graham Boyd and Pete Hoida discuss the paintings in Hoida's recent exhibtion The Black Morar Series 2010-2012 at The Museum in the Park, Stroud. Mel Gooding, writing about the exhibition, noted: "Artists carry into their work a particular and unique sensibility and history of sensation. It is a quality that derives from experiences of colour-pleasure […]
Ed Clark: The Long Sweep
Jeff Edwards talks to painter Ed Clark about his work and 60 year painting career. Clark recounts his time painting in Paris on the G.I. Bill, where he was influenced by Nicolas de Staël's work ("the presence of it, up front, the surface"), as well his return to New York where he helped form Brata […]
Jo Baer @ Museum Ludwig, Cologne
David Rhodes reviews the exhibition Jo Baer at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, on view through August 25, 2013. Rhodes writes: "This summer’s exhibition at the Museum Ludwig was originally conceived as a presentation of Baer’s minimalist works and was later expanded to cover the artist’s entire output, with an emphasis on early drawings. As a result, […]