Dorothea Tanning @ Wendi Norris
DeWitt Cheng reviews a recent exhibition of works by Dorothea Tanning at Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco. Cheng writes that "Tanning created a forceful combination of erotic danger and allure… A push-pull between attraction and repulsion powers the abstract images of tangled, submerged female figures, flying or falling that evolved in her 'prism' or 'insomnia' […]
Abstract Painting on the LES
Xico Greenwald reviews two abstract painting shows on the Lower East Side: Don Voisine at McKenzie Fine Art (through June 9) and Bob Zoell/Wyatt Kahn at Rachel Uffner Gallery (through June 2). Greenwald writes that Voisine's "oil-on-wood abstractions here have fastidious surfaces, harmoniously combining glossy, matte and semi-reflective graphite finishes… [Zoell] "crosses out words with […]
Simon Hantaï @ Paul Kasmin
Elisabeth Kley previews an exhibition of works by Simon Hantaï on view at Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, through June 22, 2013. Kley writes that the current show includes "six works from Hantai's 'Tabula' series, created in the early 1980s, with their slashing leaf-shaped areas of unpainted canvas. Visions of plenitude and emptiness expressed through […]
Language of Painting?
Alan Gouk argues that visual art and language share little in common. Gouk writes: "the relationship of words, either spoken or written, to 'things,' is a world away from that of visual sensation to its pictorial presentment. The pictographic representation of a tree has a morphological link to its object – this means that its […]
Richard Serra: Double Rifts
Ed Schad reviews the exhibition Richard Serra: Double Rifts at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, on view through June 1, 2013. Schad writes that Serra's drawings engender for him simultaneous thoughts of the "universal" and the "local." Schad notes that viewing the exhibition, "I think of how a Newman zip could send Walter Di Maria to the […]
Alexi Worth: Studio Visit
Christopher Joy and Zachary Keeting visit the studio of painter Alexi Worth. Worth discusses his recent work: " …a few years ago I got very interested in the idea of nearness, things that are right up between your hand and your face, so… your own shadow, or an implication or suggestion of it, is designed […]
William Matthew Prior: Artist & Visionary
Monroe Denton reviews the exhibition Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed at the American Folk Art Museum, New York, on view through May 26, 2013. Denton writes that: "Prior’s works, which will be returned to various museums throughout New England this summer, raise questions about art in general, the idea of progress in art, […]
John Moore: Portals
Robert Berlind reviews the recent exhibition John Moore: Portals at Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York. In the painting Turnstile (2012), Berlind writes, "The interplay of decrepit and pristine, near and far, light and dark, amid two distinct orders of spatial structure could be an instant of a dream. The turnstile’s abandoned structure holds us […]
Fritz Bultman @ Edelman Arts
In a new video curator Asher Edelman and author Charles Riley discuss the career of New York School painter Fritz Bultman. Fritz Bultman: The Missing Irascible is on view at Edelman Arts, New York, through May 11, 2013. The video features close-ups of Bultman's paintings as well as a video walk-through of the exhibition. Riley notes […]
Annie Lapin & Ann-Marie James
John Holland reviews two painting exhibitions on view in London: Annie Lapin: Amnesiacs at Josh Lilley (through May 16) and Ann-Marie James: Proserpina at Karsten Scubert (through May 10). Holland writes that both Lapin and James are artists who "make ostensibly abstract paintings, but who use the art of the past in a self-consciously Post-Modern […]
Three Generations of Abstract Painting
Piri Halasz reviews three exhibitions at Spanierman Galleries: Perle Fine: 30 Years of Painting, Dripping! Pouring! Staining!, and paintings by James Walsh (all through May 25). Halasz writes that the exhibitions"might be said to constitute one show of three generations. The first show celebrates Perle Fine, an artist associated with the first generation of abstract […]
Robert Goodnough: Subject Matter of the Artist
A new book unearths a lost primary source, penned by a significant artist, one that sheds first-person light on some of the most iconic artists of the New York School.
Llyn Foulkes: Pop
Lucy Chinen muses on Llyn Foulkes' painting Pop (1985-90) on view in the Llyn Foulkes retrospective at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles though May 19, 2013. Chinen writes: "The expression of disgust towards American capitalism and immersive pop culture is not a particularly unique perspective in contemporary art, which is why it is rare when […]
James Erikson: In Process
As part of his In Process series, Paul Behnke posts a photo-blog about the development of painter James Erikson's Slow Morning (2012). Of his work Erikson says: "My paintings are abstractions in the sense that at some point in the painting process I’m abstracting from nature, whether consciously at the beginning or through some experience or […]
Clinton King: Studio Visit
Christopher Joy and Zachary Keeting visit the studio of painter Clinton King. King discusses the progress of individual paintings and his studio process. On the resolution of individual paintings he comments: " If it's mysterious to me and I really don't know why they look a little uncomfortable and there's a varying degree of response […]
Paul Behnke & Stanley Whitney: Fearless Color
John Yau reviews two exhibitions that foreground color: Paul Behnke: An Awful Rainbow at Kathryn Markel Gallery (through May 18) and Stanley Whitney: Other Colors I Forget at Team Gallery, New York (through May 12). Yau notes that "In Behnke’s best paintings, our focus shifts between dissonance and order, large and small, solid planes and […]
Emma Biggs & Matthew Collings: Suspicious Utopias
Michael Bise interviews Emma Biggs & Matthew Collings on the occasion of the exhibition Biggs and Collings: Suspicious Utopias at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, on view through May 11, 2013. Biggs and Collings comment: "At the moment in art culture, any proposal to do with “form” is considered bad. As something transcendent, it is automatically […]
Ted Stamm @ Marianne Boesky
Pac Pobric reviews a recent exhibition of paintings by Ted Stamm at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. Pobric writes that in 1973 "Stamm began to focus more fully on the overall structure of his work, and soon after he discarded the more traditional square and rectangular supports. His attention turned elsewhere: to the shapes of […]
Rebecca Campbell: Interview
Julia Schwartz interviews painter Rebecca Campbell. Campbell remarks: "There is no illusion I have that I’m inventing anything. I’m returning to something that exists for all of us, so for me, things like death, things like light, because they have happened always does not make them rote or irrelevant. We each have to face death. […]
James Little: Studio Visit
James Panero photo-blogs a visit the the studio of painter James Little. The exhibition James Little: Recent Work will be on view at June Kelly Gallery, New York from May 16 – June 18, 2013. Panero's photo essay documents Little's studio, materials, and process which come together, Panero writes, to realize "a rhythmic sense of […]