Agnes Martin: Nice & Tough
John Haber reviews the exhibition Agnes Martin: The '80s: Grey Paintings at Pace Gallery, New York, on view through October 29, 2011. Haber writes: "Martin's museum-pieces generally run to soft primaries, earning their pale and their transparency from thin horizontals on white canvas. Nothing here looks anything less than solid. The horizontals run all the […]
Julian Stanczak: Interview
Julie Karabenick interviews Julian Stanczak about his work. Stanczak notes: "my primary interest is color – the energy of the different wavelengths of light and their juxtapositions. The primary drive of colors is to give birth to light. But light always changes; it is evasive. I use the energy of this flux because it offers […]
Georges Braque at Acquavella
Mario Naves reviews the exhibition Georges Braque: Pioneer of Modernism at Acquavella Galleries, New York, on view through November 30, 2011. Naves remarks: "From the early fauvist landscapes to the invention and refining of Cubism to the darker, more equivocal works of the 1940s and '50s, Pioneer of Modernism elaborates upon Braque's oeuvre with surprising […]
Atelier 17: Abstract Expressionist Prints
Hrag Vartanian interviews Todd Weyman of Swann Auction Galleries about Abstract Expressionist prints from Atelier 17, a print shop run by Stanley William Hayter. Weyman notes that "Atelier 17 in New York was unique in that it brought together 'old guard' European modernists such as Miro, Ernst, Masson, Lipchitz, Hayter and others, with the vanguard […]
Matt Klos: Interview
Larry Groff interviews painter Matt Klos about his work. Klos notes: "Really, the interior is my platform for unpacking a number of visual paradoxes… and visual pleasures… I realize now that all picture making is just that… picture making and the observed world is the playground from which an artist can pursue particular ideas."
Geoffrey Detrani: In the Studio
Christopher Joy and Zachary Keeting visit the studio of artist Geoffrey Detrani. Detrani discusses his studio process in detail as well as various sources of inspiration including "the beauty of ruins… this romanticism of ruins and… debased things. I've always found [these] to be really interesting."
Clyfford Still Museum: The Exception
In 2011 The the Clyfford Still Museum will finally open its doors.
Pam Cardwell: Interview
Valerie Brennan interviews painter Pam Cardwell about her work and process. Cardwell notes: "My problem is learning how to get in trouble. Learning how to get into trouble seems like a valuable thing and I don’t think it is possible to try and resolve things troubling or problematic in the work. Letting go in the […]
Lyonel Feininger’s Photographic Vision
Jessica Portner blogs about the photographic achievements of painter Lyonel Feininger. "Feininger was originally reluctant to take up photography, dismissing it as a “mechanical medium.” But he was lured by his neighbor, fellow Bauhaus master and photography pioneer László Moholy-Nagy… Feininger… experimented with extreme cropping, in which the entire context in a photograph is jettisoned, […]
De Kooningingly Up and Down
Deborah Barlow reflects on the Willem de Kooning Retrospective on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York through January 9, 2012. Barlow notes that "In many ways this was a show that brought me to far extremes of response, all in the context of acknowledging the enormousness of De Kooning’s influence on the […]
Chris Martin: Staring at the Sun
Superdigit posts great installation images of the recently opened exhibition Chris Martin: Staring at the Sun at Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, on view through January 15, 2012.
Mira Schor: Painting in The Space Where Painting Used to Be
Chris Ashley writes about the work of Mira Schor on the occasion of the exhibition Mira Schor: Painting in The Space Where Painting Used to Be at Some Walls, Oakland, through December 18, 2011. In his essay Ashley notes: "What scale in painting is really about is the relationship of all the painting’s components – what […]
Josephine Halvorson: What Looks Back
Caleb De Jong reviews the exhibition Josephine Halvorson: What Looks Back at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., on view through December 4, 2011. De Jong notes that "Similar to Tuymans, Halvorson's paintings were made in a single sitting but depart from the Belgian in that she paints her work from nature, in what appears to be […]
Steve Mumford: Waiting
Greg Cookland blogs about the work of Steve Mumford whose work was recently on view in the exhibition For the Record at Montserrat College of Art. Cookland writes that "For a 'war artist,' Mumford rarely depicts people fighting or hurt. His most frequent subject is American troops in downtime or waiting… There's a saying that […]
Ann Edholm: Where is the sky, where?
David Moxon blogs installation photos from the exhibition Ann Edholm: Where is the sky, where? at Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm on view through November 12, 2011. The press release describes Edholm's recent work as "large, occasionally even monumental, paintings that straddle both geometric abstraction and subtle expressionism. The latter reveals itself in barely perceptible marks made […]
John Pearson: Color Rise
David Pagel reviews the exhibition John Pearson: Color Rise at Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, on view through October 29, 2011. Pagel writes that "six human-size paintings by John Pearson are a breath of fresh air. Worlds away from the high-powered drive to turn art into history, the gentle weirdness and go-it-alone integrity of the […]
Vincent Desiderio: Pitiless Pathology
Donald Kuspit reviews the recent exhibition Vincent Desiderio at Marlborough Chelsea, New York. Kuspit writes: "Narrative, drama, the indecent human story… returns with an ironical vengeance in Vincent Desiderio's paintings… Even as Desiderio attempts to achieve a new modern classicism… he cannot help but suggest the black shadow that modernism has cast over art."
Milton Resnick Speaks
In a recently posted audio recording, Milton Resnick speaks about painting and his work.
Patricia Satterlee: Studio Visit
Paul Behnke pays a visit to Patricia Satterlee's Bushwick studio. Behnke writes: "Satterlee"s large paintings on paper are unique for a number of reasons. First, they are large, at a time when many Brooklyn painters are scaling down. Second, and more importantly, they combine the rough spontaneity of the preliminary sketch with an elegant, minimal […]
Kimberly Brooks @ Taylor de Cordoba
James Scarborough reviews the exhibition Kimberly Brooks: Thread at Taylor de Cordoba, Los Angeles on view through October 22, 2011. Scarborough writes that Brooks' work "is neither about fashion nor the women who bring it to life… It’s about the expectations that clothes elicit, and once those expectations are met, memories of the occasion create […]