Sandro Chia at Marc Straus
Brooklyn Rail
Jonathan Goodman reviews a recent exhibition of works by Sandro Chia at Marc Straus Gallery, New York. Goodman writes: “It is hard to read Chia’s inclination for forthright feeling in an environment like ours—dominated by the market and mostly biased against a recognizable awareness of art history. In contrast, in a painting such as Looking […]
Alice Neel: Still Neglected
Arteidolia
Randee Silv explores the influence of Alice Neel’s politics on her work on the occasion of the exhibition Alice Neel, Uptown, curated by Hilton Als, at David Zwirner Gallery, New York, on view through April 22, 2017. Silv begins: “I immediately found myself in a crossfire of conversations. Ricocheting. Intimate. Political. Some might’ve known each […]
Material Pleasure
Joanne Mattera Art Blog
Part two in a three-part photoblog series (also view part one and part three) of works, recently on view in New York. The posts “emphasize the range of art made with unusual materials, or of conventional materials used in service to an unlikely end…”
Caroline Walker: Interview
Studio International
Emily Spicer interviews painter Caroline Walker. Walker comments: “My work definitely engages with that history of painting women, which has largely cast the male artist as the portrayer of the female realm. I suppose I’m revisiting that, but through a female gaze. And I’m interested in whether the knowledge that something has been painted by […]
Roger Bissière, The Last “Primitive”
Hyperallergic
Gwenaël Kerlidou considers the work of Roger Bissière. Kerlidou writes: “With [Bissière’s] disappearance, a whole chapter of Modernism, one that we could call the ‘Primitive Paradigm,’ came to a close. The end of the primitive model in Modern art also signaled the emergence of what would later be called the Postmodern. While, in the typical […]
Josef Albers: Art to Open Eyes
New York Review of Books
An excerpt from Nicholas Fox Weber’s preface for the catalog of One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers, on view at the Museum of Modern Art through April 2, 2017. Weber writes: “Josef assembled these photo-collages in the years when he was also constructing furniture, sandblasting glass, and teaching the nature […]
Alan Gouk: New Abstract Colour Paintings
AbCrit
Emyr Williams reviews Alan Gouk: New Abstract Colour Paintings at the Hampstead School of Art, London, on view through May 12, 2017. Williams writes: “Greens drag through yellows and vice-versa, creating limes, reds through purples and purples through magentas. Blue is often bonded with white, and white is used to kick areas into a bristling […]
Albert Oehlen: Interview
Hyperallergic
Jennifer Samet interviews painter Albert Oehlen on the occasion of his exhibition Elevator Paintings: Trees at Gagosian Gallery, New York, on view through April 15, 2017. Oehlen comments: “I decided to make painting, but I wasn’t coming from painting in the sense of needing to hold a brush and smear paint. Rather, it was a decision, […]
Death, Destruction and Deity: Painting Guernica
The Art Newspaper
Gijs van Hensbergen considers a panoply of sources and influences on Picasso’s Guernica (1937) on the occasion of the exhibition Pity and Terror: Picasso’s Path to Guernica at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, on view through September 4, 2017. Hensbergen writes: “Picasso’s magpie instinct and voracious visual memory is legendary but there is […]
Marsden Hartley’s Maine
Studio International
Jill Spalding reviews Marsden Hartley’s Maine at The Met Breuer, New York, on view through June 18, 2017. Spalding writes: “A curatorial triumph for how convincingly Hartley’s meditations on Maine present as defining his modernist vision, the show serves as successfully to broaden our understanding of modernism. These burning canvases are not a style, they […]
Dana Clancy: Sightlines
Big Red & Shiny
Stace Brandt reviews Dana Clancy: Sightlines at Alpha Gallery, Boston. Brandt writes: “What resonates most about Sightlines is Clancy’s democratic treatment of the surface: she examines and activates every square inch of the picture plane. To isolate a fragment of one of Clancy’s painting is to reveal a series of tiny, abstract, symbiotic worlds. “
Alice Neel: Uptown @ David Zwirner
Hamptons Art Hub
Peter Malone reviews Alice Neel, Uptown, curated by Hilton Als, at David Zwirner Gallery, New York, on view through April 22, 2017. Malone writes: “One of the gems in the show is a canvas titled, Two Puerto Rican Boys, 1956. It depicts a pair of kids looking up at the painter while sharing a chair […]
Anoka Faruqee @ Koenig & Clinton
Hyperallergic
John Yau reviews Anoka Faruqee: Rainbows and Bruises at Koenig & Clinton , New York, on view through April 8, 2017. Yau concludes: “By opening up the geometric while maintaining a painstaking approach, Faruqee seems to have entered new, uncharted territory. While the Moireseries recalls the history of weaving and decorative fabrics, the white Circlepaintings evoke the […]
David Driskell: The Last Master
Down East
Charlotte Wilder profiles painter David Driskell on the occasion of David Driskell: Renewal and Form at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, on view through May 11, 2017. Wilder writes: “Driskell’s work marries the natural with the spiritual, and he’s known for incorporating the iconography of Christianity and of various African and Afro-Atlantic traditions… Many of Driskell’s […]
Inside Out: Henry Taylor’s Painting
Art in America
Tatiana Istomina profiles painter Henry Taylor whose work is included in the The 2017 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, on view through June 11, 2017. Istomina begins: “Henry Taylor’s painting has often been discussed in the context of outsider art not only because of his vivid and somewhat reductive figuration, […]
Al Taylor: Early Paintings
Brooklyn Rail
Tom McGlynn reviews Al Taylor: Early Paintings at David Zwirner Gallery, New York, on view through April 15, 2017. McGlynn writes: “What at first may underwhelm, in other words, can become an inexorable undertow that sets any preconceived notion of painting adrift in a sea of local allusion and wandering association…There is a token of […]
Sean Scully: Wall of Light Cubed
James Kalm Report
James Kalm visits Sean Scully: Wall of Light Cubed at Cheim & Read, New York, on view through May 20, 2017. The gallery press release states that “In this show, Scully underscores the interplay between his two-dimensional and three-dimensional work, employing an expansive array of forms and materials, including oil and spray paint, watercolor, graphite, […]
Michelangelo and Sebastiano
Studio International
Emily Spicer reviews Michelangelo and Sebastiano at the National Gallery, London, on view through June 25, 2017. Spicer writes: “For 25 years, give or take, Michelangelo and Sebastiano were close friends, a friendship apparently born from the former’s rivalry with Raphael. Michelangelo was godfather to one of Sebastiano’s children and when Sebastiano had a crisis […]
Beverly Fishman: Color-Coding Big Pharma
Art:21 Magazine
Zachary Small reviews Beverly Fishman: DOSE, curated by Nick Cave, at the CUE Art Foundation, New York, on view through April 5, 2017. Small writes: “Similar to the industrial character of her color palette, Fishman’s pills have a glossy, plastic finish. This is another red herring, an effect that might lead a viewer to believe […]
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Vogue Magazine
Dodie Kazanjian profiles painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye whose exhibition Under-Song For A Cipher will be on view at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, from May 3 – September 3, 2017. Kazanjian writes: “Most [of Yiadom-Boakye’s paintings] are large-scale, single-figure studies whose faces, set against loosely brushed dark backgrounds, look directly at the viewer. […]