Three @ Theodore:Art
Paul Behnke blogs installation images of the painting exhibition Three: Damien Flood, Joy Garnett, Andrew Seto, "a studied exhibition of contemporary abstractions that blur the lines between figuration and non-objectivity," on view at Theodore:Art through June 19, 2011. Behnke's photos highlight the installation which the gallery "hung in a way that emphasizes the similarities and […]
Wang Guangle: Coffin Paint
David Moxon posts about an exhibition of "strong monolithic forms of abstraction" by Wang Guangle at Beijing Commune, China. Moxon writes "In the 'Coffin Paint' series, the accidental dots protruding from the surface are hints of the slow progression of the artist’s work of 'experiencing', through which Wang Guangle appreciates the meaning of 'time' over […]
Michael Wingo
Leah Ollman reviews the exhibition Michael Wingo: Squeeze Series on view through June 4, 2011 at Gallery K|M in Santa Monica. In the paintings Wingo employs a radically stretched picture plane in works that are 1 foot high and 9 feet across. Ollman writes: "Arranging flat colored planes across the canvas almost like a cut-paper […]
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
Joanna Moorhead marks the passing of surrealist painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), "one of Britain's finest – and neglected – surrealists." Carrington, whose artistic company included Max Ernst, Picasso, Dali, and Max Ernst, settled in Mexico where she lived and worked until her death. In an excellent 2007 article on the artist Moorhead quotes Carrington: "You […]
Charline von Heyl Lecture
Charline von Heyl presents a generous and illuminating lecture on her work.
Todd Kelly: Signature Paintings
Matthew Farina reviews Todd Kelly: Signature Paintings at Asya Geisberg Gallery on view through June 18, 2011. Farina writes, "References to commercial or industrial printing are present alongside more traditional approaches to paint application… The interplay of man and machine-made marks is pronounced… With the constant of the 'signature' in place, Kelly’s formula as a […]
Brian Rego
As part of a series on "emerging perceptual painters who explore inventive possibilities to an old tradition," Larry Groff posts about the work of painter Brian Rego. Groff admires Rego's "vigorous treatment of the paint surface and a gritty abstract structure."
Peter Pinchbeck
Paul Behnke posts about painter Peter Pinchbeck (1931-2000). In addition to images of Pinchbeck's work, Behnke also includes a link to and a quote from the article Need to Believe by Pinchbeck's son Daniel: "… The work he left behind is probing and profound, abject and obstinate, luminous and eerie, eccentric yet true to its […]
Louise Bourgeois: Fabric into Art
Altoon Sultan posts about Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works at Cheim & Read on view until June 25, 2011. Sultan writes: "what made the use of fabric so different from paint… it is the vulnerability of fabric, its fragility that lends a special poignancy to the work. Paint is so robust in comparison. And even […]
Frank Stella: Working History
The Kenneth Tyler Print Collection blog posts about their long history collaborating with artist Frank Stella on his prints and sculptures. The post documents "the serendipitous and open-minded way Frank finds many of his images. With a Melville-like appreciation of high and low, squalid and pristine, silly and serious, it is no wonder that 'stuff' […]
Narrative Figuration
Sheldon Tapley reviews the exhibition Narrative Figuration at the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati on view through June 5, 2011. Tapley notes that the five painters in the show, Robert Anderson, Daniel O'Connor, Tim Parsley, Emil Robinson and Tina Tammaro, have each committed to "a curiously old-fashioned choice: to keep making pictures by hand, using […]
Moses Hoskins
Continuing their excellent series of video studio visits, Christopher Joy and Zachary Keeting interview painter Moses Hoskins about his work. Hoskins notes that the abstract forms in his paintings "gives me something to work around… a substitution for a figure… you can still have a narrative… going on… you still get the theatre…"
Blinky on My Mind…
Artist Steve Roden posts some thoughts on the work of Blinky Palermo sparked by the juxtaposition of a Palermo work, Projektion, with one of Roden's own paintings in the exhibition Time Again at the Sculpture Center in Long Island City. Palermo's Projektion is "a photographic document of a projection of a red and blue painting […]
Gabrielle Bakker
Gary Faigin reviews the exhibition Gabrielle Bakker A Decade: 2001-2011 at Davidson Gallery, Seattle on view through May 28, 2011. Faigin writes that Bakker "cobbl[es] together highly original pictures from a huge array of sources, whose only common element is that the artist finds them worthy. It is one thing to appreciate art and artists […]
Emanuel Seitz
[IMAGES] Great installation photos of the exhibition Emanuel Seitz at Christian Andersen gallery in Copenhagen. The post also includes a short interview with Seitz who discusses his work and practice including making his own colors: "the process of finding these colors plays an important role.. I use several kinds of pigments, which react with each […]
Emile Gilliéron’s Frescoes
Seán Hemingway writes about the curious and interesting story of Emile Gilliéron (1850–1924) and his son (also named Emile) who played a significant role in restoring the frescoes at Knossos. The father and son team worked for 30 years at the site and also painted "colorful and carefully crafted reproductions… which were disseminated around the […]
Talking Walls
Sharon Butler posts about the exhibition Wall Works, curated by Stephen Maine, at The Painting Center, NYC on view until May 21, 2011. The artists install and discuss their work in two excellent videos. Wall Works is "an exhibition of painting, drawing and installation engaging the gallery's walls as the primary support and framing device… […]
James Little
Mario Naves writes about painter James Little on the occasion of the exhibition James Little, Ex Pluribus Unum on view at June Kelly Gallery through June 21, 2011. Naves writes: “Favoring tradition over novelty and dogged persistence over glib nihilism, [Little] insists on the viability of modernism as a living resource.”
Fade Away / Art of Transition
A short essay by Barry Schwabsky written for the exhibition Fade Away curated by Alli Sharma. Fade Away explores "paintings that oscillate between representation and abstraction." Schwabsky writes: "the fact that so many painters today are working along the broad and very porous border between abstraction and images is a sign that this boundary is, […]
Alan Shields
Steven Alexander visits the exhibition Alan Shields, Something Goin' On & On on view at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York through June 24, 2011. Alexander writes that Shields' work is " …deeply rooted in a ritualization of the painting process and an assertion of art-making as an ancient practice… the large paintings possess a […]