Chicago Painting: Art Green, Eve Garrison, Robert Barnes
As part of a gallery Stephen Knudsen highlights Corbett vs. Dempsey, a gallery that specializes in Chicago painting. Three Chicago painters are discussed in the post including Art Green, "one of the six renowned Hairy Who artists," Eve Garrison (1903-2003), a WPA artist who "cajoled security guards into letting her into their buildings to get […]
Discovering James Castle
Spurred by a recent exhibition of works by James Castle at Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, an interesting post considers the true dynamic of influence between the avant-garde and "outsider" artists such as Castle. Although Castle's works look like those "who might have been a follower of Jean Dubuffet and Jean Fautrier… The fact that parts […]
Diego Rivera’s New York City
Jodi Roberts traces New York City's impact on the work of Diego Rivera. Roberts writes: "Fascinated by modern technology, [Rivera] felt an immediate connection to the city, which at the time was in the throes of one of the largest construction booms in U.S. history, known as the skyscraper race." She continues by noting that […]
In and Around Monochrome
Carl Belz curates an online exhibition of recent monochrome paintings by John Zinsser, Daniel Levine, Karen Baumeister, Jeffrey Collins, and Matt McClune. In his introduction Belz writes: "Monochrome spawned no school or movement following its appearance in the early 1960s, but it has nonetheless remained a presence in the art of our time, its directness […]
Whitney Biennial: Painting Strategies
Sharon Butler examines the paintings and painting strategies on view at the 2012 Whitney Biennial. Butler writes that "the 2012 Biennial has adopted a modest DIY aesthetic that you might see at an artist-run gallery in, say, Bushwick. Overall, I liked the human scale of the objects, the emphasis on the handmade (as opposed to […]
Rembrandt & Degas: Study in Contrasts
Mario Naves reviews the exhibition Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, on view through May 20, 2012. Naves writes "As a study in contrasts, the Met exhibition has its uses. Degas' exercises in self-portraiture are heady and pitiless, their rigor is risky, pointed and […]
Louisa Waber: Interview
Studio Critical
Valerie Brennan interviews painter Louisa Waber about her work and studio practice. Waber remarks: "Whether the painting is finished or not is sometimes unclear – other times it shouts 'done.' Frequently I go back into a painting after a pause of weeks or months, often seeing possibilities I hadn't before. I can't repeat a painting. […]
Matisse’s Site Specific Dance
Tyler Green writes about the impending move of Henri Matisse's site-specific painting The Dance to their new building in Philadelphia. Green cites several sources in depth including Teriade, Dorothy Dudley, and Jack Flam to provide an account of Matisse's thoughts on The Dance and his considerations of how it would be viewed at the original […]
Jonathan Lasker: Early Works
Video walk through of the exhibition Jonathan Lasker: Early Works at Cheim & Read, New York, on view through March 24, 2012. The gallery notes that "the show groups together twenty seminal paintings, dating from 1977–1985, which attest to the origins of Lasker's methodology, and ideas about abstraction, figuration and language. His consistent, critical questioning […]
Kyle Young: Push Play
Robert Boyd visits the exhibition Kyle Young: Push Play at Art Palace, Houston, Texas, on view through April 7, 2012. Boyd writes "Whatever else he is doing, Kyle Young is in a dialogue with early minimal painters. This dialogue is not oedipal. There is no obvious anxiety of influence… the fathers in [the works] Fathers […]
Max Gimblett: The Holy Grail
Paul Behnke photo blogs images from the exhibition Max Gimblett: The Holy Grail at Gary Snyder Gallery, New York, on view through April 7, 2012. The exhibition includes Gimblett's sumi ink drawings which inform his large-scale gestural abstractions. The gallery describes Gimblett's paintings as "glossy, calligraphic abstractions in high-keyed hues, many of which feature large […]
Brett Baker: Interview
Thanks to Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy for meeting me at East River State Park, Williamsburg to discuss my work for their incredible video blog Gorky's Granddaughter.
Greg Lindquist: In Studio
James Kalm visits the studio of painter Greg Lindquist to discuss the work for his recent exhibition You Are Nature at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York. Kalm notes that Lindquist uses "various uncontrollable techniques like dripping, splatters and blotting Lindquist crafts pictures that are in dialog with contemporaries like Peter Doig, and Luc Tuymans but […]
Violet Baxter & Charles Marburg
Patrick Neal reviews an exhibition of paintings by Violet Baxter and Charles Marburg at Jeffrey Leder Gallery, New York, on view through March 11, 2012. Neal writes that Marburg's paintings "favor eccentricity over grandiosity, depicting figure/ground fields that either stay put, stacked in small solidly brushed complexes of activity, or awash drifting by, images appearing […]
Forrest Bess at Christie’s
Caleb De Jong reviews the an exhibition of paintings by Forrest Bess at Christie's, New York, on view through April 3, 2012. De Jong writes: "Supporting himself as a fisherman in the Gulf, Bess believed his work's symbols were descended from a Universal principle and could be understood by all… Bess, perhaps, believed his mythology […]
Kanishka Raja: Interview
Mary Jones interviews painter Kanishka Raja about his recent series of paintings Switzerland for Movie Stars. Commenting on these new works that juxtapose dream like images of urban environments, Raja notes: "I started thinking about the Hindi movies I saw when I was growing up, and how often the song and dance scenes in the main […]
Joan Mitchell, Exuberance & Generosity
Gary Wragg reflects on the late paintings of Joan Mitchell, on view at Hauser & Wirth, London through April 28, 2012. Wragg writes that Mitchell's last paintings express "a feel of an embrace and exuberance, a generosity and love of the outdoors, of air, light and being enveloped… Her work has been little seen here […]
Bosiljka Raditsa: The Nature of Memory
William Corwin reviews the exhibition Bosiljka Raditsa: The Nature of Memory, recently on view at The Painting Center, New York. Corwin writes that "Raditsa has fashioned a vibrant pageant of meditations on color and gesture. Though the paintings are thoroughly abstract, memory is a clear subtext throughout the works, secondary to formalist aesthetic experimentation… The […]
Charline von Heyl: Relationship of Now
Charline von Heyl and curator Gavin Delahunty walk through a new exhibition of von Heyl's paintings on view at Tate Liverpool through May 27, 2012. Von Heyl remarks: "What I want to do with the painting is establish this relationship of now… that you are actually in the moment in front of a painting and […]
Glenn Goldberg at Jason McCoy Gallery
James Kalm visits the recent exhibition Glenn Goldberg: elixirs, tales and remedies at Jason McCoy Gallery, New York. Kalm notes: "Embracing a more 'decorative' sensibility, and including compositional elements like perspective, horizon line and floral patterning, Goldberg is shacking up the formalistic parts of his practice, and presenting a new direction for the work which […]