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 […]
Robert Motherwell: A Discussion
Luke Elwes and Sam Cornish discuss Robert Motherwell's work on the occasion of the exhibition Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper at Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, on view through November 26, 2011. Elwes notes that "it is refreshing to revisit him on a smaller scale in this show (the first dedicated to his work on paper in […]
Elizabeth O’Reilly @ George Billis Gallery
Maureen Mullarkey reviews an exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth O'Reilly at George Billis Gallery, New York, on view through November 12, 2011. Mullarkey writes that "O'Reilly brings to art an intuitive regard for man's sense of place. It is a sensibility that makes the locks on the Union Street Bridge, spanning Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, a […]
Russian Modern: In Brooklyn
Richard Aste blogs about the Brooklyn Museum's installation of Russian paintings from their collection, titled Russian Modern. Aste writes that the long term installation "will feature thirteen paintings… spanning one hundred years of modern Russian art history…The paintings range in scale and subject-matter from small cabinet pictures of Russian peasant life to large-scale pacifist paintings of […]