Celia Reisman: A Moment Noticed
Phindie
Lev Feigin reviews Celia Reisman: A Moment Noticed at Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, on view through May 26, 2017. Feigin writes: “Only in ‘Echo Park Coral’ do we witness contact between two people. The couple at the lower end of the composition – we only see their heads and shoulders – face each other in […]
Peter Dreher: Interview
Studio International
Angeria Rigamonti di Cutò interviews painter Peter Dreher on the occasion of his exhibition Day by Day, Good Day at Mayor Gallery, London, on view through June 2, 2017. Dreher comments: “… adherence to one motif and its repetition does not represent a limitation but rather a liberation. It allows me to concentrate on what […]
Markus Lüpertz: Interview
Apollo Magazine
Maggie Gray visits the studio of painter Markus Lüpertz on the occasion of two concurrent retrospectives in Washington D.C.: Markus Lüpertz: Threads of History at the Hirshhorn Museum (May 24 – September 10) and Markus Lüpertz at the Phillips Collection (May 27 – September 3) Lüpertz remarks: “There is nothing new in painting. It is […]
Julian Hatton’s Free Range Abstraction
Although resolutely abstract, Julian Hatton’s new paintings deliver the full, immersive effect of the landscape.
Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Mangold & David Novros
Hamptons Art Hub
Charles A. Riley II reviews three New York exhibitions: Ellsworth Kelly: Last Paintings and Plant Drawings at Matthew Marks Gallery (through June 24), Robert Mangold Paintings and Works on Paper 2013 – 2017 at Pace Gallery (through June 17), and works by David Novros at Paula Cooper Gallery (through June 30). Riley notes: “Touring this notably […]
Stanley Whitney: Interview
New American Paintings Blog
Arthur Peña interviews painter Stanley Whitney on the occasion of the exhibition FOCUS: Stanley Whitney recently on view at The Modern, Fort Worth, TX. Whitney comments: “It happens in the color. People bring their own stories to it and the work allows for them to happen all at once. The titles do that to. Peaches could be […]
Cynthia Daignault @ the Flag Art Foundation
Bomb Magazine
Ted Dodson reviews Cynthia Daignault: There is nothing I could say that I haven’t thought before, recently on view at the Flag Art Foundation, New York. Dodson writes that the show “collects three separate series of paintings. Together, they continue her signature conceptual methodology, expanding on previous considerations of viewership, representative painting, and existential feminism […]
Florine Stettheimer: Rococo Subversive
Art in America
Blog post featuring Linda Nochlin’s 1980 article re-published on the occasion of Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry, on view at The Jewish Museum, New York, through September 24, 2017. Nochlin writes: “… one might well raise some questions about conventional notions of an art of social concern itself, especially as these have recently been articulated in […]
Mark Dutcher: Studio Visit
Art and Cake
Gary Brewer visits the studio of Mark Dutcher whose show Another World is on view at Jason Vass Gallery, Los Angeles through June 3, 2017. Brewer writes that “[Dutcher’s] approach can express innocence and joy in passages where the canvas remains fresh and present and the paint is applied lightly. In other works where an […]
Making Work for LS Lowry
The Guardian
Reprinted from May 12,1960, photographer Robert Smithies recounts commissioning a painting from LS Lowry. Smithies recalls: “The steps rose from ruins of a demolished terrace. A lamp-post, bent with age, pointed from the bottom to the surmounting stock brick façade of yet another chapel – the Primitives… ‘Now I really must paint that! What do […]
Mercedes Matter @ Mark Borghi
Hyperallergic
Jennifer Samet reviews Mercedes Matter: A Survey: Paintings & Drawings from 1929 to 1998 at Mark Borghi Fine Art, New York, on view through May 26, 2017. Samet writes: “Matter’s insistence on the nude female body, and on still lifes of flowers, drapery, and skulls as the focus of observational painting — for herself and […]
Vanessa Bell @ Dulwich Picture Gallery
London Review of Books
Alice Spawls reviews Vanessa Bell: 1879-1941 at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, on view through June 4, 2017. Spawls writes: “Despite the obvious influence of Matisse on her work, the artist Bell often seems closest to in spirit is Bonnard. There is an affinity in their domestic playfulness, in the shimmer of marks and diffusive pinks […]
Joan Eardley: A Sense of Place
Studio International
Christiana Spens reviews Joan Eardley: A Sense of Place at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, on view through May 21, 2017. Spens writes: “By combining the freedom of abstract expressionism, along with the familiarity of local places, [Eardley] invoked a wild sublime in these Scottish scenes that remains unique and arresting… Eardley’s […]
Patrick Jones: No Pasaran
AbCrit
Len Green reviews Patrick Jones: No Pasaran recently on view at the PS45 Gallery, Exeter, March 10 – April 9, 2017. Green begins: “The exhibition “No Pasaran” represents a life-long artistic journey by Patrick Jones, a journey which illustrates how he and his work have been affected by artistic influences from America and Europe. The […]
Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry
James Kalm Report
James Kalm visits Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry at the Jewish Museum, New York, on view through September 4, 2017. Kalm notes: “Through her involvement in the art world Stettheimer came in contact with the most advanced members of the avant-garde who had flocked to New York, like Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia. Not having to […]
Philip Guston @ the Gallerie dell’Accademia
ARTnews
Sarah Douglas reviews Philip Guston and The Poets at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, on view through September 3, 2017. Douglas writes that “the show, curated by Guston scholar Kosme de Baranano, is built–somewhat loosely–around Guston’s reading of and relationships with poets. There are the whimsical works on paper he made to illustrate his wife Musa […]
Patricia Satterlee’s Painterly Silence
Hyperallergic
Thomas Micchelli writes about the paintings of Patricia Satterlee whose exhibition Already Gone is on view at the Martin Art Gallery of Muhlenberg College, PA, through May 26, 2017. Micchelli writes: “These forms are limitlessly varied and undeniably strange… Satterlee puts these motifs through their formal paces — rotating and mirroring them; reducing them to […]
Matisse/Diebenkorn @ SFMOMA
Squarecylinder
Lawrence Gipe reviews Matisse/Diebenkorn at SFMOMA, on view through May 29, 2017. Gipe writes: “Curators Janet Bishop and Katherine Rothkopf have designed a rhythmic exhibition of ‘pairs,’ each of which is designed to illustrate Matisse’s sway over Diebenkorn… Without a doubt, Matisse/Diebenkorn delivers an intriguing narrative of inspiration and obsession: as the curators present it, […]
James McGarrell on Jan Vermeer
Painters on Paintings
James McGarrell reflects on Jan Vermeer’s The Artist in His Studio (1665-1670). McGarrell writes: “I find in all of his works, and in this piece specifically, a sequentially paced structure that directs a journey for the probing eye. Its entry is inevitably from the bottom edge because it is from there that, as crawling infants, […]
Alexei Jawlensky @ Neue Galerie
Too Much Art
Mario Naves reviews Alexei Jawlensky at the Neue Galerie, New York, on view through May 29, 2017. Naves notes: “Though Jawlensky tilted towards abstraction, he never completely abandoned representation. The splotchy landscapes displayed at the center of the exhibition test the limits of recognizability even as Jawlensky continues to hold onto things—hillocks and trees, clouds […]