Jered Sprecher: Interview
Painter's Bread
Michael Rutherford interviews painter Jered Sprecher. About his painting process Sprecher notes: "The paintings are not planned out; in effect I am constantly introducing contingencies to each work. Limits and unexpected occurrences are barriers to be embraced, challenged, and creatively addressed. If I look at the logic that resides in a particular painting or work […]
Paul Pagk: Interview
Interview with painter Paul Pagk about his work and studio practice. Pagk says: "I spend my time painting even in those moments I am not physically painting… [in the studio] … I will be thinking about the last paintings I have just worked on or brought to a level from where I am able to […]
Don Cooper: Bindu
Elizabeth Sheppell blogs about the paintings of Atlanta-based artist Don Cooper. Sally Hansell writing for Burnaway has noted that "[Cooper's] focused process produces images that are stunning in their visual complexity yet generous in their simplicity."
Kimberly Brooks: Thread
Tryharder photoblogs the exhibition Kimberly Brooks: Thread at Taylor De Cordoba, Los Angeles. In her new work, Brooks "continues to explore portraiture, specifically the complexities of representations of female identities. While in her previous series… the artist used figures to construct narratives, here the female form is part of a broader abstracted landscape… Brooks continues […]
Frederick Hammersley: Organic & Geometric
Caleb de Jong reviews the exhibition Frederick Hammersley: Organic & Geometric at Ameringer McEnery & Yoe on view through October 8, 2011. De Jong writes that "Hammersley – who served in the military in WWII and studied in the Ecole de Beux-Arts in Paris where he met Picasso and Braque – fits more easily as […]
Barbara Campbell Thomas: Interview
Valerie Brennan interviews painter Barbara Campbell Thomas about her work and studio practice. Thomas notes: "…over time I've found I can never just recreate in the studio what I've seen out in the world. Something always falls flat in translation. I've got to happen upon the experience I seek over the course of working. So […]
Stephen Mueller (1947-2011)
David Cohen remembers painter Stephen Mueller, who passed away on September 16, 2011 at the age of 63. Cohen writes: "In his mature work – which was characterized by vibrant yet ingeniously modulated color choices and increment-free paint surfaces (or in the case of watercolor, ethereal yet sumptuous stain) – the imagery manages to be […]
Milton Resnick, Poet
Poet Jerome Rothenberg remembers his encounters with painter Milton Resnick. "Milton's declaration, right from the start, was that he was a painter who had given up painting in favor of poetry & that he thought that I & my fellow poets should now give up poetry in favor of painting… carrying the intensity he had […]
Gideon Bok: Sound & Vision
Bradley Rubenstein reviews the exhibition Gideon Bok: Record Store on view at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, through October 8, 2011. Rubenstein writes: "The subject is the record sleeve, which lies horizontally, creating a trapezoidal shape within the LP-sized panel. [Bok] paints with a rough, expressive hand while listening to the album he […]
Gabriel Laderman on Art
“Gabriel Laderman on Art,” represents the best of what blogging can be – personal, thoughtful reflections and opinions based in real experience.
Philip Guston’s Recklessness
Kim Krause ponders Philip Guston's painting Signals, 1975, in the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Krause writes: "the painting presents a visual paradox of the artist’s inseparability of knowing/not knowing; the painting as result, sum, residue of action and real-time experience. Planning and execution become intertwined. Process and object become fused. It is a […]
Looking for a Bad Giacometti
Philip Koch writes about the unmistakeable power of Alberto Giacometti's 1921 self-portrait: "Within the confines he chose to work within, I have to admit he did a fine job of it. In particular, he posed himself to make a tightly organized composition that has a nervous pulsing energy to it… There is an unmistakable early […]
Daniel Lergon: Antumbra
David Moxon blogs about the exhibition Daniel Lergon, Antumbra at Gallerie Christian Lethart, Cologne on view through October 29, 2011. Lergon's paintings are made "without using color pigments directly, painting instead with colorless, clear lacquer" over colored grounds. Moxon writes that Lergon's works "are reminiscent of the classic minimalist paintings of Frank Stella, Ad Reinhardt […]
Interview with Ken Tighe
Larry Groff interviews painter Ken Tighe about his work. Tighe says: "I also choose somewhat chaotic subject matter many times as a way to distance myself and the viewer from understandable or familiar points of reference. For example, I often avoid working too obviously, or at all, with the element of horizon. For me it […]
Richard Timperio @ ART 101
[VIDEO] James Kalm visits the opening of Richard Timperio New Work at Art 101, Brooklyn on view through October 9, 2011. Kalm notes that Timperio's "Bedford Avenue gallery, Sideshow has launched and revived the careers of generations of artists and… These activities have required Rich's attentions at the expense of his own practice, so it […]
Ann Pibal: ‘DRMN’
Caleb De Jong reviews Ann Pibal 'DRMN' at Meulensteen Gallery, New York on view through October 8, 2011. De Jong writes: "While small, the work is not diminutive. Quietness leads to concentration that is parcel to the fundamental act of looking… Self-described as intuitive, her work is not painted linearly, but instead is made and […]
Jarrett Min Davis: Guts and Glory?
Sharon Butler writes about Jarrett Min Davis' paintings of war in his recent exhibition Guts and Glory at Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut. Butler notes: "In this age of counterinsurgency and embedded photojournalists, the images of war make obvious topical sense. But there is also something subtler in Davis’s meticulously constructed paintings. Dainty white […]
18th c. Painted Sketches
Rebecca Long blogs about a new gallery installation highlighting 18th-century painted sketches at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Long observes: "One of the great artistic achievements of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was the proliferation of monumental paintings for the walls and ceilings of churches and palaces throughout Europe… These large, often figure-filled compositions […]
Josh Dorman: Lost Divers
Mario Naves reviews the exhibition Josh Dorman: Lost Divers on view at Mary Ryan Gallery from September 8 – October 22, 2011. Naves writes: "Josh Dorman's collages–encyclopedic meditations on nature’s dizzying beneficence and humankind's many and various foibles–have been on my radar for some time now. Over the years, the pieces have evolved from being […]
David Reed on Milton Resnick
Painter David Reed remembers Milton Resnick on the occasion of the exhibition Milton Resnick, The Elephant in the Room on view at Cheim & Read from September 22 – October 29, 2011. Reed writes: "Resnick told us that we had to decide between two ways of being painters. You could either “climb the ladder of […]