Picasso, Miró, Dalí: Angry Young Men
Daniel B. Gallagher reviews the recent exhibition Picasso, Miró, Dalí. Angry Young Men: The Birth of Modernity at the Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze. The show examines the work of the three artists "Miró, Dalí, and Picasso while each was striving to invent a new visual language by contemplating the work of the other two."
Jon Elliott: The Approach
Martin Bromirski posts images from a recent studio visit with Brooklyn-based painter Jon Elliott. The images include images of Elliott's landscape paintings as well as his work The Approach – 303 miniature paintings installed as a single work.
Untitled @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash
James Kalm visits an untitled summer painting exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash featuring the work of Katherine Bernhardt, Alfred Jensen, Chris Johanson, Chris Martin, Andrew Masullo and Judith Scott on view through August 5, 2011. The press release notes that the artists share "hand-wrought qualities and an aggressively direct use of color, texture, and material, […]
Lucian Freud: Last Look
Lucian Freud looked with an unmatched intensity, a kind of scrutiny of which only a painter is capable.
Lloyd Martin: On the Grid
Maureen Mullarkey reviews the recent exhibition Lloyd Martin: Interstices at Stephen Haller Gallery. Mullarkey writes: "The fascination of Martin's painting lies in its pitch-perfect balance between the constraints of a formal grid and the rhythmic movement of horizontal bands within it. The tactile materiality of the paint, contained within strict, incised margins, contrasts with the […]
Elisabeth Condon: Paintings That Shouldn’t Work
Franklin Einspruch reviews the recent exhibition Elisabeth Condon: Climb the Black Mountain at Lesley Heller Workspace. Einspruch writes: "Imagine if you could speak several languages, switching from one to another to suit your thoughts, inside of a single sentence. You might begin in English for the sake of clarity, then change to Chinese for an […]
Fractured Space
Paul Corio posts the second part of painter George Hofmann's theory of a "new kind of pictorial space beginning to crystallize in painting which he refers to as 'Fractured Space.' " In this post Hofmann further defines the difference between 'Fractured Space' and cubsim. Part one of 'Fractured Space' is available here.
Norwegian & Swiss Landscapes
Jeffrey Dennis writes about the exhibition Forests, Rocks, Torrents: Norwegian and Swiss Landscapes from the Lunde Collection on view at the National Gallery, London through September 18, 2011. Although the works on view show the Northern Romantic influence of Caspar David Friedrich, Dennis writes that works by Swiss painter Alexandre Calame stand out: "There is […]
Clyfford Still: “Pure Painting”
[VIDEO] Clyfford Still: A Life in Paintings preview featuring artist Frank Stella discussing Clyfford Still’s originality. Produced and directed by A bark K Productions and the Milkhaus [This is the second post in a series celebrating the November 18, 2011 opening of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado. View the first post here.] The […]
Thomas Nozkowski @ Albright-Knox
Tyler Green blogs about Thomas Nozkowski's 2009 painting Untitled (8-117) now on view at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. Green writes that "The 'background' of the painting seems to emit pulses of light, but the yellow bulb in the center-foreground seems to glow steadily… for all that bouncing-light vibration, the surface of the painting […]
Painting Expanded @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
16 Miles of String
Andrew Russeth blogs installation images from the exhibition Painting Expanded at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. Painting Expanded "brings together work by 17 painters, most of them young and closely watched… curated by Renee Coppola, Phyllis Lally, Emily Ruotolo, and Scot Surdez."
Alice Neel: Men Only
C. Hughes-Greenberg blogs images from the exhibition Alice Neel: Men Only on view at Victoria Miro Gallery through July 29, 2011. The show features "an intimate selection of portraits by Alice Neel, focusing on her work with male subjects. Titled 'Men Only', the show highlights Neel’s relationship with the different men who posed for her […]
Peter Halley Studio Visit: Chelsea
Matt Mignanelli blogs a photo-tour of the Peter Halley studio preview this week in Chelsea. Mignanelli writes that Halley's "command of surface and the variation of texture throughout each piece bring an extraordinary level of visual engagement." The paintings will be on view at Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich from September 10 to November 19, 2011.
Rubens in London
Huntley Dent reconsiders Peter Paul Rubens' works in London. Dent notes "it's startling to consider that when he was around thirty, Rubens could have come to London to see the first performances of Hamlet and King Lear. His style seems at least a century ahead. So prolific was he that London abounds in Rubens, major […]
Tom Fairs: Drawings
Caleb De Jong blogs about the recent exhibition Tom Fairs, Drawings at KS Art/Kerry Schuss. De Jong writes that Fairs' "Graphite renderings of thistles, thatched cottages, shrubs and cathedrals impart moments of reverie… [are] worked from an internal reference point… profoundly influenced by nature and looking."
David Bomberg: The Mud Bath
Chris Stephens blogs about David Bomberg's painting The Mud Bath (1914) "which is said to have been based on Schevzik's Steam Baths in London's Whitechapel… human figures – like mechanised bodies – reduced to simple planes and sharp angles." Stephens continues noting that as part of Bomberg's one-person exhibition in 1914, The Mud Bath "hung […]
Rackstraw Downes: Telling Stories
Bill Morris writes about painter Rackstraw Downes on the occasion of the exhibition Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008, a retrospective on view at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC through August 21, 2011. Morris looks at Downes' move from hard-edge abstraction to landscape painting through the prism of his [Downes'] book In Relation to […]
Giorgio Morandi: Essence of Landscape
Painting Perceptions
Larry Groff blogs images from a “a rare show in Alba, Italy of Giorgio Morandi’s Landscapes where some 70 landscape paintings were shown.” In addition to the landscape paintings, Groff also includes an interesting image of Morandi’s view finder. Giorgio Morandi: The Essence of Landscape, curated by Maria Cristina Bandera was on view at the […]
Anne Russinof: Studio Visit
Paul Behnke posts a photo essay from his studio visit with Brooklyn-based painter Anne Russinof. Russinof's paintings "[combine] an expressionist tendency with a… minimalist appreciation of structure."
Sarah Faux: Studio Visit
Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy visit the studio of painter Sarah Faux. Faux discusses discusses her process and materials in depth, including her use of bleach, dye, and spray paint in addition to oil on canvas.