Jason Stopa: Interview
Valerie Brennan interviews painter Jason Stopa about his work. Asked about the inspiration to begin a painting, Stopa comments: "It comes from anywhere. I just pick up on things around me – the feeling of a neighbourhood, places, things or people that mean something to me. I like to let intuition guide what I'm doing. […]
Brian Edmonds: In Process
As part of the In Process series, Paul Behke posts about the development of several tondo paintings by Brian Edmonds. Behnke writes: "Edmonds allows us a step by step look at two recent works: A Darker Dark and The Brute. Both examples speak to the importance of process and materials in Edmonds' painting as he […]
Grant Drumheller: Interview
John Seed interviews painter Grant Drumheller on the occasion of the exhibition Grant Drumheller: New Paintings at Prince Street Gallery, New York, on view through June 15, 2013. Asked about the aerial viewpoint in many of his paintings, Drumheller responds: "I find that the curve of my vision is often something I want to convey […]
Katharina Grosse: Interview
Tyler Green talks to painter Katharina Grosse about her work and current exhibition Wunderblock at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, on view through September 1, 2013. Speaking about making painted work to be exhibited in the context of a sculpture collection, Grosse remarks that her works are "something that's maybe not sculpture at all but […]
Ying Li: What’s In Front of Me
In a new video by John Thornton Ying Li discusses her approach to painting.
Painting in the 2.5th Dimension
John Bunker reviews the exhibition Painting in the 2.5th Dimension at the Zabludowicz Collection, London, on view through August 11, 2013. The show features works by Tauba Auerbach, Jessica Dickinson, Sam Falls, Alex Hubbard, Nathan Hylden, Rosy Keyser, Ned Vena, and Michael E. Smith. Bunker writes: "It’s always interesting to see how different generations of […]
Albert York: Uncanny Impressions
Andrew Russeth reviews Albert York: A Loan Exhibition at Davis & Langdale Company Inc., New York, on view through June 21, 2013. Russeth writes: "While only one work here is larger than a sheet of typing paper, they all deliver enormous visual feasts—made of seemingly simple, halting brushstrokes on board that form powerful, intimate still lifes […]
Mark Greenwold: Complicatedly Complex
Phong Bui reviews the exhibition Mark Greenwold: Murdering the World, Paintings and Drawings 2007-2013 at Sperone Westwater, New York, on view though June 28, 2013. Intrigued by the multiple complexities in Greenwold's paintings, Bui writes: "With their repeated penetration of lines, Greenwold’s new paintings and drawings evoke Giacometti’s existential angst, while the calibration of scale among […]
Paul Delvaux at Blain|DiDonna
Tony Zaza reviews the recent exhibition Paul Delvaux at Blain|DiDonna, New York. Zaza notes" "One might consider that [Delvaux's] obsession with women was a kind of prison from which he was powerless to escape, except within the confines of the canvas, and later the mural. In his life, women were powerful figures. Yet, he is […]
Genius of Love at Brian Morris
Osamu Kobayashi posts a photo blog of images from the exhibition Genius of Love, curated by Jason Stopa, at Brian Morris Gallery, New York, on view through June 23, 2013. The show features paintings by EJ Hauser, Jaqueline Cedar, Andrea Belag, Shara Huges, Rick Briggs, Farrell Brickhouse, and Emily Noelle Lambert.
David Hornung: Studio Visit
Studio visit with painter David Hornung on the occasion of his exhibition at John Davis Gallery, Hudson NY, on view through June 16, 2013. "Objects in [Hornung's] subject matter hovers between observation and the symbolic, and he refers to Philip Guston’s Alphabet series with plain respect, and like Guston, David was reluctant to talk about […]
Joyce Pensato: Interview
Phong Bui interviews painter Joyce Pensato about her work and career. Asked about her first Batman paintings Pensato remarks: "I thought of them as still lifes. I finally got what all the teachers were talking about. They all said, 'Oh, don’t forget the space in the middle.' Once there was a life-size Batman cut out […]
Painting at Bushwick Open Studios
Sharon Butler photo blogs paintings from the BOS2013 – Bushwick Open Studios. Butler's post features paintings by Corydon Cowansage, Enrico Gomez, Sharon Butler, Julia Schwartz, Peter Shear, Katherine Bradford, Brian Cypher, Michael Voss, Meg Atkinson, Mathieu Lefevre, Eve Lateiner, Ginny Casey, Erik den Breejen, and David McBride. [UPDATE] Part Two of Butler's BOS2013 painting coverage is […]
Philip Taaffe: Painting as Occult Practice
John Yau reviews the exhibition Philip Taaffe: Recent Work at Luhring Augustine, New York, on view through June 15, 2013. Yau writes: "Taaffe’s paintings teem with activity, moving from the visceral to the ghostly. Our attention keeps changing gears, never finding stability. Seeing is akin to excavation, to sifting through the details without losing sight […]
Dürer’s Phenomenon
Mario Naves reviews the exhibition Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., on view through June 9, 2013. Naves writes that "the curatorial point is obvious: Dürer was a phenomenon. Is a phenomenon, if the response of the crowds attending the show is any […]
Justin Andrews: States of Change
Brent Hallard interviews artist Justin Andrews about his work and process. Andrews remarks: "That relationship between conceptual structure and material character found in an artwork – I always try to work in a way where one supports the other. I continually focus on my ongoing concepts but I also try to work just outside of […]
Painting in Place
Photo blog of the Los Angeles Nomadic Division exhibition Painting In Place at the Farmers & Merchants Bank, Los Angeles, on view through July 31, 2013. The show considers the "various ways that the definition of painting is continuously evolving, the project seeks to expand the traditional parameters of painting, sculpture, and installation: blurred, deconstructed, […]
Deborah Dancy & Andrew Seto
Sharon Butler blogs about two shows: Deborah Dancy: Chasing the Light at Sears-Peyton, New York (through June 29) and Andrew Seto: Lazy Reader at Theodore:Art, Bushwick, Brooklyn (through June 16). Both artists use a triangular motif in their recent work. Butler writes that Seto employs the form as "a kind of universality or perfection that metaphorically […]
Xstraction at The Hole
Thomas Micchelli reviews Xstraction at The Hole, New York. The exhibition features work by 32 contemporary abstract painters. Michelli writes that "there are only a few paintings here that are startling in their originality, but despite their sheen of newness, their relationship to antecedents is very much in evidence. This is not a criticism; to […]
Certain Densities in Perceptual Painting
Matthew Ballou argues that “a perceptual approach to painting is not synonymous with rote observation.”