Leslie Wayne: Interview
Valerie Brennan interviews painter Leslie Wayne about her work and process. Wayne comments: "I start with the given shape of a panel, which quite honestly determines nothing. But it gives me a starting point, which is more dynamic and demanding than a square or a rectangle. I tend to build up several layers of color […]
Inga Dalrymple: Interview
Phillip J. Mellen interviews painter Inga Dalrymple about her work and process. Asked about the relationship between her drawing and painting practices Dalrymple comments: "I don't think of drawing necessarily as something that goes straight into my paintings… they're kind of like a bit of a conversation… I tend to jump between [drawing and painting] […]
A.R. Penck in New York
Caleb De Jong reviews two concurrent exhibitions of paintings by A.R. Penck: A.R. Penck: Before the West: Selected Works from the 1970s at Leo Koenig Inc. (through February 23) and A.R. Penck: New Paintings at Michael Werner Gallery (through March 9). De Jong writes: "Penck’s visual consistency holds at bay, through its humorous and unvaried insistence […]
Sigmar Polke @ the Portland Art Museum
Victor Maldonado reviews an exhibition of works by Sigmar Polke from the Nicolas Berggruen Charitable Trust, recently on view at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon. Maldonado writes that "what at first appears to be an arbitrary array of works, upon deeper study becomes a compelling pocket survey of Polke's prolific career… Polke's Proveidentia-Schleife still seems […]
George Bellows’ Entropic Visions
Mira Schor blogs about a group of three paintings by George Bellows depicting the excavation for Pennsylvania Station. The pictures are part of the exhibition George Bellows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on view through February 18, 2013. Schor writes: "The paintings are easel sized and painted in a loose expressionistic style […]
Nancy Spero: Cruel Beauty
Thomas Micchelli reviews the exhibition Nancy Spero: From Victimage to Liberation: Works from the 1980s & 1990s at Galerie Lelong, New York, on view through February 16, 2013. Micchelli writes: "The installation is, in a word, stunning — as spare and light-filled as the work itself. The collages, with their rhythmic interplay of repeating images, […]
Wit @ The Painting Center
Mario Naves posts his catalogue essay for the exhibition Wit, curated by Joanne Freeman, at The Painting Center, New York through February 23, 2013. The exhibition features works by Marina Adams, Polly Apfelbaum, Joanne Freeman, Joe Fyfe, Barbara Gallucci, Phillis Ideal, Jonathan Lasker, Sarah Lutz, Doreen McCarthy, Mario Naves, Thomas Nozkowski, Paul Pagk, Ruth Root, […]
Jackie Gendel: Revenge of the Same
Kris Chatterson posts installation photos from the exhibition Jackie Gendel: Revenge of the Same at Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, on view through February 9, 2013. The gallery notes that the works in the exhibition "depict archers, views of bustling crowds framed through abstract geometries or broken waves, and at the “high water mark”, the […]
Anoka Faruqee: Interview
David Humphrey interviews painter Anoka Faruqee about her work. Faruqee comments: "I’ve always been interested in knowledge that’s not passively received, but actively experienced. I guess that’s why I make paintings—or why I believe in making paintings—because the act of making the painting presents the question." She continues: "These are very optical paintings, some more […]
Suzie Idiens: On the Wall
Brent Hallard interviews painter Suzie Idiens about her work. Idiens comments: "Product manufacturing processes influence how the pieces are made, but not why they are made – it’s more a means of getting closer to singular form and colour. Initially softening the edges was instinctual, a way of giving the pieces a more sculpted, solid […]
Lisa Pressman: Interview
Valerie Brennan interviews painter Lisa Pressman about her recent work and her studio practice. Pressman remarks: "My working routine and process are pretty close. I am at a point in my art making where I feel I have my tool belt pretty well stocked with a vocabulary, ideas, materials, and inspirations. I try to trust […]
Painter Painter: Reframing a Medium
Julie Caniglia interviews Eric Crosby and Bartholomew Ryan, co-curators of the exhibition Painter Painter at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, on view from February 2–October 27, 2013. Crosby comments that there is "something about the resolute materiality of painting that continues to attract artists. These are objects that follow deeply subjective and individual ways of […]
Connie Goldman: Interview
Phillip J. Mellen interviews painter Connie Goldman about her work and process. Goldman speaks about the emotional content of reductive abstraction. Asked about her recent Doublet series, Goldman remarks that although they are reductive and abstract, the Doublet paintings refer to personal loss and embody both the feeling of crumpling inward and the will to […]
Mario Naves: Surface Rhythms
John Goodrich reviews an Mario Naves: Recent Paintings at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, on view through February 2, 2013. Goodrich writes: "Naves’ sixth show at Elizabeth Harris reveals something new: a change in medium, and a more efficient attack that privileges composition over texture. Although still abstract, the works on view are all paintings […]
Kyle Staver: Paintings, Prints, Reliefs
Sharon Butler posts Kyle Staver's thoughts on her work which will be on view in the upcoming exhibition Kyle Staver: Paintings, Prints, Reliefs at John Davis Gallery, Hudson, New York (January 31 – February 24, 2013). Staver notes: "I don't think it's an accident that these Mythical subjects are often taken up by artists in […]
Megan Craig: Studio Visit
Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy visit the studio of painter Megan Craig. Craig comments: "I think of my paintings as records of energy… I think of my own work in terms of its verbalness more than its nominal quality… when something feels closed to me it feels overly nominal like there's a noun at the […]
Fritz Winter: Crystalline Vision
John Yau considers the work of Fritz Winter on the occasion of the exhibition Licht-Bilder: Fritz Winter and Abstract Photography at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, on view through February 17, 2013. Yau writes that "In a number of the 'light pictures,' Winter compresses semi-transparent crystalline forms, a dark gray, depthless space and a moon-like […]
Australian Aboriginal Sacred Landscapes
Altoon Sultan blogs about the sacred nature of Australian Aboriginal paintings on view in the exhibition Crossing Cultures: the Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art at the Hood Museum of Art, on view through March 10, 2013. Sultan writes: "The story of the beginnings of these paintings is very interesting: for thousands […]
Sigrid Sandström: Viewfinders
Joshua Fischer reviews the exhibition Sigrid Sandström: Viewfinders at Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas, on view through February 16, 2013. Fischer writes: "Meticulously done in smooth layers of acrylic paint on board or panel, Sandström overlaps irregular shapes, thin masking tape lines and controlled swathes of squeegeed, smeared paint. Imagine the push/pull of Hans Hoffman, the mechanical/gestural […]
Lauren Luloff: Studio Visit
Maria Calandra visits the studio of Lauren Luloff. Calandra writes: "Wooden pillars that break up the room reminded me of the stretchers that are often visible in Lauren's paintings by either holding a partially translucent canvas or by being seen when her work shown in the round. Lauren enhances found bed sheets with delicate bleach-drawn […]