Bill Jensen: Interview
Peter Brock interviews painter Bill Jensen on the occasion of his current exhibition of new paintings at Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, on view through February 18, 2012. Jensen discusses in depth his the origins of his recent group of triptychs. He remarks: "I think with the physical dimension of the panels, I'm able […]
The Power of Portraits
Altoon Sultan visits the exhibition The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on view through March 18, 2012. Sultan writes: "When we look at a portrait painted hundreds of years ago, do we enter into the life of the person portrayed? For me, it is less the understanding of […]
Glenn Goldberg: Elixirs, Tales & Remedies
John Yau reviews Glenn Goldberg: Elixirs, Tales and Remedies at Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, on view through February 24, 2012. Yau writes: "By wanting his paintings 'to take you toward, not away,' Goldberg rejects spectacle, entertainment, anything that tries to distract you from time passing, everyday life, and mortality. He has developed and honed […]
Vincent Hawkins: In the Studio
Video studio visit with painter Vincent Hawkins where he discusses his recent works on "cardboard and oval-shaped supports." Hawkins notes his interest in "releasing some of the forms out of the constriction of the edge and trying to release it into the environment rather than containing it within the edge of the format of the […]
Mary Corse
Caleb De Jong reviews the exhibition Mary Corse: New Work at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, on view through March 10, 2012. De Jong writes: "A phenomenological experience only appreciable after soaking in the light and air of California, Corse's paintings are a trippy, Los Angeles attitudinal response to Agnes Martin's arid Taos grids. Digitally, […]
Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum
[VIDEO] Nicholas Tromans discusses Richard Dadd's The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke and a second "rarely seen version Dadd painted in watercolour, Songe de la Fantasie, both of which Dadd painted while living inside asylums."
Gerald Ferguson’s Blue Collar Conceptualism
Paddy Johnson discusses the life and work of conceptual painter Gerald Ferguson with curator Luke Murphy and CANADA Gallery director Phil Grauer. Luke Murphy notes: "There wasn't any illusion. When [Ferguson] got rid of the opticality, he felt he was doing 'work.' Gerry was very uncomfortable as a painter. He's not the artist dandy–he's the […]
Chris Martin: Sign of the Gnome
John Yau reviews Chris Martin at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, on view through March 3, 2012. Yau writes: "The central thing that distinguishes Chris Martin from his forebears (Forrest Bess, Alfred Jensen, and Simon Gouveneur) is his meshing of visionary symbols and images derived from mass culture, particularly from the world of popular music… […]
Christopher Mir: In the Studio
Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy visit the studio of painter Christopher Mir. Mir discusses new ideas and directions in his work. He remarks that in his paintings he seeks to "give a voice to my astonishments"
Lucian Freud: Portraits
Chloe Nelkin visits the exhibition Lucian Freud Portraits at The National Portrait Gallery, London, on view through May 27, 2012. Nelkin writes that "a biographical approach is inevitable when discussing Freud… but, here, you must just look and revel in the opportunity that is being afforded you and give his work the close attention it […]
Transcendence Times Two
Joanne Mattera reviews the exhibitions Lori Ellison at McKenzie Fine Art and Tantric Paintings at Feature Inc., New York (both shows on view through February 11, 2012) Mattera writes that "In description, two current exhibitions of small works couldn't sound more different: One, eye-bendingly complex, is idiosyncratic and personal, the work of a New Yorker, […]
Ivan Generalic
Alison Pilkington posts about "Sunday painter," Croatian artist Ivan Generalic (1914-1992). Pilkington writes that "Most of Generalic’s paintings are done on the back of glass, a technique that he mastered over several decades and one that reflected his folk roots and craft traditions… Generalic's painting are a visual delight but also an inexplicable blend of […]
Anselm Kiefer: Materiality & Surface
Gallery going at Thaddaeus Ropac leads to some thoughts on the uniqueness of Anselm Kiefer's painting surfaces. "There have been many paintings in past and recent years that utilize paint's materiality to emulate textures from flesh to smoke. Some names that come to mind include Allison Schulnik, Annie Hemond Hotte, Jyrki Riekki, or Katy Moran. […]
Howard Buchwald
Mario Naves reviews an exhibition of recent works by Howard Buchwald at Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, on view though March 10, 2012. Naves writes: "Buchwald believes in the eye above all. His rigorously choreographed arrays of wriggling, rubbery lines and declarative, eye-rattling colors couldn’t kowtow to extra-aesthetic imperative if they wanted to. The rhythms […]
Sarah McEneaney
Whitney Kimball reviews Sarah McEneaney: New Work at Tibor de Nagy, New York, on view through March 10, 2012. Kimball writes: "Throughout Sarah McEneaney's modest-sized egg tempera paintings… we find a singular tourist: a middle-aged woman in water shoes, a bike helmet, rectangular glasses, sketchbook in hand, often surrounded by cats. Her sunny landscapes and […]
Per Kirkeby On His Work
Per Kirkeby discuss his work while visiting his retrospective exhibition at BOZAR Brussels.
Antoni Tàpies (1923 – 2012)
Debu Barve remembers painter Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012). Barve writes: "Marble dust, sand, rags, earth and all the other materials that Tàpies used in his art have created an artistic language that speaks about a fundamental understanding of our own existence. His work is pure, honest and a very stark statement about our constantly changing surroundings. […]
Loren Munk: Interview
Phillip J. Mellen conducts an extensive podcast interview with painter Loren Munk. Munk discusses his work and studio process in detail including the function research plays in his paintings which exhaustively detail the history of the New York art world. Munk remarks "I still do have sketchbooks full of drawings and layouts and ideas, but […]
Darby Bannard’s Beautiful Disasters
Brett Sokol profiles painter Darby Bannard. Sokol writes: "In [Bannard's] latest series of paintings, a riot of multicolored brushstrokes crash over one another in densely built layers – a playful squiggle here, a violent wave there, cohering into an often-hypnotic whole… what's truly surprising isn't just Bannard's willingness to explore, but how markedly different these […]
Emily Nelligan: Drawings
Spotlight on the charcoal drawings of artist Emily Nelligan. Hilton Kramer, writing about the aritst's work in 2000, noted "She has somehow been able to wrest from this smudgy, powdery substance a 'palette' of so many blacks, grays and off-whites, so many different densities of light and shade, so many nocturnal nuances and daylight subtleties, […]