Victor Pesce: Not So Simple
Mario Naves posts about the work of Victor Pesce on the occasion of an upcoming exhibition at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, on view from April 20 – July 26, 2013. Naves writes: "Victor Pesce paints pictures of simple things, but the pictures he paints are not so simple. Certainly, his still-life paintings are unadorned. […]
Julia Schwartz: In Conversation
Phillip J. Mellen talks with painter Julia Schwartz about her work and process. Schwartz returns several times in the conversation to the importance of place to her as a painter. "In general," she remarks, "I'm working more from a kind of mental place.. I don't think it's an intellectual place, it's just more from a […]
Mary Grigoriadis: Strokescapes
James Kalm visits the exhibition Mary Grigoriadis Strokescapes 1970s-1980s at Accola Griefen Gallery, New York, on view through May 18, 2013. Kalm's video provides an up-close look at Grigoriadis' paintings. The gallery press release notes that the paintings are "secular icons that are luscious in both color and texture. [Grigoriadis] applies layer upon layer of […]
Matt Phillips: Scattered Geometries
Allegra Kirkland blogs about the exhibition Matt Phillips: this and then at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, on view through April 20, 2013. Kirkland writes that the "exhibition’s title refers to Phillips’ interest in the relationship between the fixed, stable quality of finished artworks and the active, immediate way in which the viewer […]
Elisabeth Condon: Interview
Joseph Kendrick interviews painter Elisabeth Condon about her work. Asked about process Condon notes: "Earlier I’d balanced pours and imagery, but in the recent paintings was looking for a way to express the inspiration of 1970s glam rock working with glitter and mylar, which were new materials for me. Lately there has been less of […]
Christian Haub: Interview
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe interviews artist Christian Haub. Haub's exhibition New Floats was recently on view at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York. Haub comments: "I can’t call the Floats paintings because I don’t use paint, but they hang on the wall and come from painting, I think they could be called 'shallow reliefs.' When my wife, Vera […]
Andrew Masullo: Warped & Thrilling
Rob Colvin reviews the exhibition of paintings by Andrew Masullo at Mary Boone Gallery, New York, on view through April 27, 2013. Colvin writes that Masullo's paintings "outwit, defy, and make gallery-going fun again. With numbers for titles, the works elicit numerous surprises, and these of several kinds. Even the dates startle. One work, ten […]
McArthur Binion: Ghost: Rhythms
Alan Pocaro reviews the exhibition McArthur Binion: Ghost: Rhythms at Kavi Gupta, Chicago, on view through June 22, 2013. Pocaro writes: "Binion’s larger, more rural works… stand out. These misty-toned 'Circuit Landscapes Nos. V and VI' are freer in their deference to the Modernist grid, retaining the more ridged works’ austere coloration but with enhanced […]
Jerwood Painting Fellowships
Simon Bayliss reviews the Jerwood Painting Fellowships 2013 exhibition at Jerwood Space, London, through April 28, 2013. The show features work by Anthony Faroux, Susan Sluglett and Sophia Starling. Bayliss begins: "Painting can now be considered a mode of thought or a philosophy which can be applied outside of the confines of the medium and […]
Painterly Pasted Pictures
Brendan Dooley reviews the exhibition Painterly Pasted Pictures at Freedman Art, New York, on view through May 18, 2013. Dooley writes that the exhibtion "brings together a group of collages from the 20th century united by the stylistic trait of 'painterliness.' … Though painterliness obviously has its roots in painting, this exhibition shows how easily […]
Piero: Severity & the Eternal
Altoon Sultan blogs about the exhibition Piero della Francesca in America at The Frick Collection, New York, on view through May 19, 2013. Sultan writes: "When people speak of his work as being calm, I would say 'still.' Rather than calm I see an austere presence, a severity of form and mien, in the sense […]
Emergence: Complex Simplicity
Sharon Butler posts installation photos from the exhibition Emergence at Hôtel de Sauroy, Paris, on view through April 27, 2013. The show features works by Eve Aschheim, A.T Biltereyst, Katrin Bremermann, Sharon Butler, Claire Chesnier, Clem Crosby, Fieroza Doorsen, Amy Feldman, Yifat Gat, Kevin Monot, Erin Lawlor, Paul Pagk, Marine Pages, Andrew Seto, Radu Tuian, […]
John Dubrow: Interview
Xico Greenwald interviews painter John Dubrow. A solo show of Dubrow's recent work is currently on view at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York (through April 20) and a retrospective of his paintings, A Formal Realist: The Works of John Dubrow is on view at the Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA (through May 19). Asked about the process […]
Portraiture In Focus
Janet McKenzie considers the exhibition Portraiture In Focus: Irene Barberis, Anita Taylor and Helen Sturgess at Langford 120, North Melbourne, Australia (through April 21, 2013) in the context of post-war British portraiture and recent Australian art. McKenzie writes: "With a revival of figurative art in the 1980s came a renewed interest in drawing, an art form […]
Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions
John Yau writes about the exhibition Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966 – 2013 at the Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, on view through April 30, 2013. Yau notes: "Wurmfeld’s deep historical research in the field of color theory is unrivaled. He is, in that regard, both a painter and a scholar, a combination the […]
Lisa Adams: Second Life
Holly Myers reviews the exhibition Lisa Adams: Second Life at CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, on view through May 12, 2013. Myers writes that "If painting can be said to live at the threshold between the external visual world of objects and the internal visual world of the imagination, the relative pull of either pole varies […]
Greg Goldberg: Color of Light
Mary Negro visits the studio of painter Greg Goldberg on the occasion of the exhibition Greg Goldberg: Northern Light at Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, on view April 17 – May 31, 2013. Negro begins: "There is a welcoming demeanor to Greg Goldberg’s bright, airy Manhattan studio that compliments his own as he places canvas […]
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Thomas Micchelli reviews the exhibition Post-War Italian Art: Accardi, Dorazio, Fontana, Schifano at Sperone Westwater, New York, on view through May 4, 2013. Micchelli writes: “The works in this show have in common an enduring simplicity of means, a Classicism pliant enough to encompass minimalist analytics, anti-art stratagems and the headiness of Pop. The work […]
Susanna Heller: Phantom Pain
Mira Schor writes about the exhibition Susanna Heller: Phantom Pain at Magnan Metz Gallery, New York, on view through April 20, 2013. Schor directs her attention specifically to a group of paintings Heller made of her husband while he recovered from a serious illness. Schor writes that "[Heller] sat in the hospital making hundreds of drawings, […]
Gabriel Phipps: In Process
Part of the In Process blog series, Paul Behnke posts about the development of two paintings by Gabriel Phipps. Of his process, Phipps remarks: "My painting process combines critical thinking and intuition. I have no single method of making a painting. There are times when I find an image purely through the act of painting. […]