Tamara Gonzales @ Norte Maar
EJ Hauser blogs images from the exhibition Tamara Gonzales: Unititled at Norte Maar, Bushwick, on view through April 29, 2012, as well as photos from a visit to Gonzales' studio. The gallery notes that Gonzales' new paintings "spring to the optical extreme through her unique process of spray painting through found lace tablecloths, doilies, and […]
Jan van Eyck: The Play of Realism
Tyler Green interviews Craig Harbison, author of the recently revised monograph Jan Van Eyck: The Play of Realism. Green notes that the book is "a too-rare example of a top art historian willing to allow his sense of wonder at his subject’s work to infuse every page." Green also interviews Ron Spronk, coordinator for the […]
Thoughts on Gerhard Richter Painting
D Richmond reflects on the film Gerhard Richter Painting now showing at Film Forum in New York through March 27, 2012. Richmond writes: "The major thing I walked away from with a new appreciation was how [Richter] thinks about his making and the process. It many of these he starts out using old motifs or […]
Ravenna Taylor: Studio Visit
Paul Behnke visits the studio of painter Ravenna Taylor whose recent work is the subject of an online exhibition Re-Visions at Galerie Cerulean. Of her process Taylor writes: "Visual sensation stirs my attention to perception and thought; as emotion and thought impact senses and perceptions, my curiosity engages. My imagery derives from such observations, the dovetails […]
Max Weiler: A Perception
Bernhard Gaul profiles Austrian painter Max Weiler (1910 -2001). Gaul recalls that visiting an a 1980's exhibition of Weiler's work and hearing him talk "was the first time painting was revealed to me as an attitude, and as a physical experience." Recalling a visit to an 2004 exhibition of Weiler's large scale paintings, Gaul writes: […]
Review Panel: Four Painters
The February Review Panel held at the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York focused on painting. Faye Hirsch, Franklin Einspruch, Christina Kee, and David Cohen discuss recent exhibitions by four painters: Mary Corse, Ridley Howard, Glenn Goldberg, and Joyce Pensato. Cohen notes that the panel "gathered four painters on this occasion […]
Kadar Brock & Matt Jones
Eric Sutphin blogs about the work of Kadar Brock and Matt Jones on view in the exhibition Evil Dead 2 at Horton Gallery, Berlin through March 30, 2012. Sutphin writes that "Brock cannibalizes old endeavors (his canvases) and sands away layers leaving disjointed fragmentary bits of the paintings former self, revealing a kind of hollowed […]
Eve Aschheim
James Kalm visits the exhibition Eve Aschheim: New Work at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, on view through March 24, 2012. Kalm notes that Ashheim's new work "investigates a richer palette of intensities and tints, and emboldens her compositions with blocks of solid color. Expanding her style from a near minimal approach, Aschheim seems to enjoy […]
Mary Heilmann’s Indiscipline of Painting
Sam Rose considers the work of Mary Heilmann, now on view at Hauser & Wirth, London, in relation to the recent exhibition The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now at Mead Gallery Warwick Arts Centre. Rose writes: "Can one be playful and 'indisciplined' in a way disciplined enough to justify the […]
Amy Wilson: Interview
Joy Garnett interviews Amy Wilson about her work on the occasion of the exhibition Amy Wilson: We Dream of Starfish and Geodesic Domes on view at BravinLee Programs, New York through March 24, 2012. Wilson remarks "As far as what kind of art inspires me – I've always been really drawn to Conceptual art and to […]
David Miretsky’s Allegory of Painting
Emil Robinson considers paintings by David Miretsky on view in the exhibition Uniquely Ukraine at Phyllis Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio through March 31, 2012. Robinson writes: "Miretsky seems to be saying that the artist must exist in, and be removed from the world at the same time. The distant introspective men in Miretsky's paintings are […]
Forrest Bess: Without Elaboration
In the first installment of a blog series, John Yau provides background on painter Forrest Bess. Yau focuses on Bess' background and the formation of the 'visionary' philosophy behind Bess' art. Yau quotes a statement by Bess: "I term myself a visionary artist for lack of a better word. Something seen otherwise than by ordinary […]
Guy Goodwin @ Brennan & Griffin
Caleb De Jong reviews the exhibition Guy Goodwin: Recent Works at Brennan & Griffin, New York, on view through April 8, 2012. De Jong writes that "Goodwin's paintings manage to have an old fashioned presence in spite of their seemingly fragile surfaces. 2-2-3-3 INTERIOR, from 2011, for instance, is painted in simple and declarative primary […]
Guercino, Caravaggio: Working Space 1600
David Carrier reviews the exhibitions Roma al tempo di Caravaggio 1600-1630 at the Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Venezia, Rome (through March 18, 2012) and Guercino (1591-1666) at Palazzo Barberini, Rome (through April 29, 2012). Carrier argues that Caravaggio is the only artist of his time to remain relevant to contemporary audiences: "Just as Willem de […]
Mali Morris @ Mostyn Gallery
Andy Parkinson visits the exhibition Mali Morris: Works on Canvas and Paper at Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, on view through June 24, 2012. Parkinson writes: "In Mali Morris' little works on paper, gem-like in their luminosity, colour seems to become independent and brilliantly assertive. The modernist abstract tradition where the words 'big' and 'abstract' belong together […]
Man Ray The Painter
Paul Behnke posts a surprising selection of paintings by Man Ray. The works demonstrates Man Ray's wide range of approaches and and subjects including moody, modernist landscapes that recall Marsden Hartley's early work, abstractions that call to mind Stuart Davis, and surrealist imagery. Behnke also posts several quotes from Man Ray about his work including: […]
Maarten van Heemskerck’s Rome
Franklin Einspruch reviews the exhibition Maarten van Heemskerck: Ancient Rome Relived at Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam, on view through June 3, 2012. Einspruch writes that the exhibition focuses on van Heemskerck's "grand tour" of Rome where he "he developed a lifelong fascination with the Colosseum, which in his time had a grove sprouting from its top […]
Michael Berryhill: Interview
Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy visit the studio of painter Michael Berryhill. Asked about his paintings, in which gestural abstraction and imagery blend together, Berryhill remarks "There's something about the searching for the thing you don't know what it is, the invention part I like, so when I get something in a drawing, I like, […]
Sangram Majumdar: In Conversation
John Seed interviews painter Sangram Majumdar about his work and process as well as Steven Harvey, whose gallery exhibits Majumdar's work. Regarding observation based painting, Majumdar notes: "I have always been an image-based painter, regardless of the source, be it photography, working from life, or pure invention. Often the reason I start with something physical […]
Tim Kennedy: Interview
In an extensive and informative interview, Larry Groff interviews painter Tim Kennedy. In addition to Kennedy's painting practice they discuss studying with Lennart Anderson at Brooklyn College, Hawthorne on Painting, a technical versus a structural approach to perceptual painting, and the hidden history of recent figurative painting. Of his own practice Kennedy notes: "the information […]