Tyler Wilkinson & Claes Gabriel
The Artblog
Ilana Napoli reviews Images and Notes from the Floating World, works by Tyler Wilkinson & Claes Gabriel recently on view at University City Arts League, Philadelphia. Napoli writes that “both [artists] describe their relationships with painting as a physical experience. For Claes, painting is a fight. He refers to his sculptural paintings, which evoke totems […]
Marisa Merz @ the Met Breuer
Apollo Magazine
Lidija Haas reviews Marisa Merz: The Sky is a Great Space at the Met Breuer, New York, on view through May 7, 2017. Haas writes: “What appear to be Merz’s most recent works – paintings of large saintlike female figures in rich golds and reds and blues – seem a little less subtle than the […]
The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century
Hyperallergic
David Carbone reviews Timothy Hyman’s new book The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century, published by Thames & Hudson. Carbone writes: “this [book] is not so much an ‘objective’ survey as a personal examination of specific works from the vastness of twentieth century achievements that Hyman believes can serve as a foundation for […]
Rik Wouters: A Retrospective
Studio International
Julie Beckers reviews Rik Wouters: A Retrospective at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, on view through July 2, 2017. Beckers writes: “[Wouter’s] colourful work is characterised by authentic and touchingly simple depictions without hidden iconographical messages. … Wouters’ strive to develop a strong interest for light in his depictions succeeds in […]
John Moore on Pierre Roy
Painters on Paintings
John Moore reflects on Pierre Roy’s Metric System (1933) in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Moore writes: “While objects like the transit in Roy’s work were undoubtedly found in his studio, the context, like the room in Metric System, was likely invented and existed only in his paintings. He apparently began by […]
Dana Clancy @ Alpha Gallery
Boston Globe Arts
Cate McQuaid reviews Dana Clancy: Sightlines at Alpha Gallery, Boston, on view through April 5, 2017. McQuaid writes: “[Clancy] transforms vitrines, windows, the glass surrounding the MFA’s courtyard, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s greenhouse into mirrors and lenses. Images bounce and bend, rippling through and transforming familiar places into enigmas…. Ordinarily, we parse experience […]
Julian Hatton
Vasari 21
Ann Landi profiles painter Julian Hatton, whose exhibition Free Range will be on view at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, from April 20 – June 3, 2017. Hatton tells Landi: “I consider the small ones complex little worlds where there’s enough information for me to crawl in there psychologically … To some degree, my paintings […]
Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends
Evening Standard
Matthew Collings reviews Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends at the National Portrait Gallery, London, on view through June 18, 2017. Collings writes: “[the show] … emphasises that [Hodgkin] would cling to subject matter as a taking-off point even though he always departed into abstract realms — but always returned as well, making it clear somehow that […]
David Reed: Over the Edge
The Art Section
Deanna Sirlin writes about the work of David Reed on the occasion of Painting Paintings (David Reed)1975 on view from April 1- May 21, 2017 at 356 S. Mission Rd, Los Angeles, California (and recently on view at Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University and Gagosian Gallery, New York). Sirlin observes: “In each decade of his life […]
Jennifer Coates: All U Can Eat
William Eckhardt Kohler: Huffington Post
William Eckhardt Kohler reviews Jennifer Coates: All U Can Eat at Freight + Volume Gallery, New York, on view through April 16, 2017. Kohler writes: “With wry humor and a sense of the absurd [Coates] finds these mythic energies embedded in some of the most degraded and cast off of places: the toxic and synthetic […]
Joan Mellon @ Carter Burden Gallery
Village Voice Arts
R.C. Baker reviews paintings by Joan Mellon at Carter Burden Gallery, New York, on view through March 23, 2017. Baker writes that “[Mellon’s] abstractions can evoke the sense of a searching, back-and-forth discussion — not to mention the occasional heated argument.”
Martha Edelheit and Jay Milder: Interview
Arteidolia
Ron Morosan interviews painters Martha Edelheit and Jay Milder whose work is included in Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965 at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, on view through April 1, 2017. Edelheit notes: “The artists I knew and met were concerned with having a space to show their work, which […]
A New Subjectivity: Figurative Painting after 2000
Two Coats of Paint
Sharon Butler reviews A New Subjectivity: Figurative Painting after 2000, curated by Jason Stopa, at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York (through April 12). The show features works by Katherine Bradford, Katherine Bernhardt, Gina Beavers, Jackie Gendel, Liz Markus, and Rose Wylie. Butler writes that curator Jason Stopa “makes a strong case that contemporary painters, particularly […]
Painting on Message @ the 2017 Whitney Biennial
Hyperallergic
Jennifer Samet reviews painting at the The 2017 Whitney Biennial continues at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, on view through June 11, 2017. Samet writes: “This year, the Whitney Biennial includes plenty of painting. And — for the most part — the painting is on message. It’s eccentric figuration with political content. Some […]
On Georgia O’Keeffe, In and Out of Sight
Brooklyn Rail
Gaby Collins-Fernandez considers the work of Georgia O’Keeffe. Collins-Fernandez concludes “The openness with which O’Keeffe considers observation allows a viewer to track formal similarities between the works. It’s just that what she was looking at was not so limited—her dreams and thoughts, photographs, landscapes, art she’d seen, edges, shadows, shapes. This variety, and the ease […]
Mor Faye & Ernest Mancoba
New York Times
Holland Cotter reviews Mor Faye: The Untitled Series, Works On Paper, 1969-84 at Skoto Gallery (through March 18) and Ernest Mancoba at Aicon Gallery (through April 8). Cotter writes: “Stylistically, [Mor Faye’s] work is kaleidoscopic, the binder being its propulsive energy. This is fabulously inventive picture-making. I can easily imagine young painters delighting in it, […]
Lisa Adams: Petrichor @ CB1 Gallery
Artillery
Ezrha Jean Black reviews Lisa Adams: Petrichor at CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, on view through April 9, 2017. Black writes: “Adams’ work has always reflected an acute sensitivity to the physical environment – both the macrocosmic view and its moment-to-moment experiential aspect. But above all she follows her own muse; and language – the poetry […]
Christina Renfer Vogel: Interview
MW Capacity
Sam King interviews painter Christina Renfer Vogel whose exhibition Home Bodies is on view at the Christensen Art Center at Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN, through March 23, 2017. Vogel comments: “Like working from the landscape, plants serve as a vehicle for me to build a painting in a new way, offering unexpected and complex visual […]
Jennifer Coates: Interview
Hyperallergic
Jennifer Samet interviews painter Jennifer Coates, whose exhibition All U Can Eat is on view at Freight + Volume Gallery, New York, through April 16, 2017. Coates: “There are a lot of painting jokes. There are all kinds of moments where I think I can pretend to be this or that artist. It is very satisfying. […]
Painting & Structure
AbCrit
John Bunker reviews the recent exhibition Painting & Structure at the Kennington Residency, London. The show featured works by Daniel Sturgis, Mali Morris, Sophia Starling, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Kes Richardson, and James Campion. Bunker writes: “This show brings together an interesting mix of painters who tend to ‘play’ with the tension between crafted excess and severe […]