Blinky & Imi: Friends & Influence
Catherine Wagley relects on friendship and recounts the story of two friends whose work influenced one another: Blinky Palermo and Imi Knoebel. The two artists explored the United States together on a road trip where they "stopped at Rothko’s Chapel, saw De Maria’s Las Vegas piece, and returned home inspired." Palermo's work is currently the […]
PAPER 2011
Artist Steven Alexander provides a look at PAPER 2011 on view through February 13, 2011 at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery in Brooklyn. Consisting entirely of mall works on paper, the show, Alexander writes, "offers one rich and intimate experience after another."
Hassel Smith: Persistent Challenges
John Seed looks at the interesting life and work of under-known artist Hassel Smith. Smith worked in several majors styles of painting both abstract and figurative throughout a tumultuous career. Hassel Smith: Upending Orthodoxy is on view at Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara through April 3, 2011.
First Look: George Condo
Hyperallergic's Kyle Chayka posts a photo essay of George Condo: Mental States on view through May 8, 2011 at The New Museum. Chayka writes: "Condo’s exhibition represents a triumphant return for a painter now better known for his portraiture of Kanye West than for his 1980s art world-piercing works."
Justin O’Brien @ AGNSW
John Matthews reviews Justin O'Brien: The sacred music of colour on view at the Art Gallery of New South Wales through February 27, 2011. O'Brien (1917-1996), an Australian artist, is best known for painting religious themed paintings with a saturated palette. Matthews writes "One thinks of modern artists appropriating the formal traits of the Renaissance […]
Thought Patterns
Matthew Farina writes about the exhibition Thought Patterns: Paintings by Rachael Wren and Julie Shapiro on view at The Painting Center through January 29, 2011. Farina notes that although the artists "entertain stylistically diverging approaches…" the paintings require "steady or prolonged perception from a viewer… both artists have given us a reason to remain in […]
Heartache & Toothache in the Renaissance
SPREAD Artculture's Kiša Lala blogs about the stories of martyrdom depicted in paintings by Carlo Dolci and Artemesia Gentileschi at Sperone Westwater. The exhibition showcases "a collection intended to showcase the importance of post-renaissance Italian art, highlighting the lesser luminaries coming after Rafael, Michaelangelo and Leonardo."
Afterimages: Wladyslaw Strzeminski
(*Editors Note: The link above is the permalink to the video page. Currently the video is not playing from that page. If you have difficulty please visit the Vernissage TV homepage. It is well worth the extra click). Vernissage TV video about the work of Polish artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski (1893-1952). Strzeminski was a student of […]
New Gentileschi on LES
Sperone Westwater's current exhibition Italian Paintings from the 17th & 18th Centuries includes a newly attributed “Portrait of an Unidentified Man” by Artemisia Gentileschi. Kyle Chayka writes that the portrait "shows a slyly grinning figure posted in contrapposto with both hands alighted on hips. The dark, swirling black clothing that the figure wears is another […]
Don Dudley
An exhibition of little known paintings by Don Dudley is on view through February 19, 2011 at 1-20 Gallery. Artnet's Charlie Finch tells the story of the redicovery of this "…subtle body of work, done on aluminum panels, which the Los Angeles-born Dudley had exhibited in Germany in the 1960s."
“Battle of the Brush”
James Wagner visits a novel exhibition of painting, "Battle of the Brush" in Bryant Park, NYC. The show pits "abstract" painters vs. "realist" painters in a tongue-in-cheek mock battle; a clash as obviously senseless as any taking place around the world today. Wagner remarks that the show is "one of the most creative art shows […]
Thoughts On Changing Sensibility
Although favoring the paintings of Velázquez for years, painter Altoon Sultan discusses how time widens our perspective on paintings of the past. She writes: "I no longer want to have a 'favorite artist'; I see so much that moves me and enriches my life and my work. Now I see the clarity of the artists […]
Jennifer Bartlett’s Building Blocks
Kyle Chayka reviews Jennifer Bartlett, Recitative at Pace Gallery. The exhibition installation is a single 158 foot long work. However, Chayka writes, "What at first appears to be a gallery-size abstraction coalesces into a didactic walk-through of art at the atomic level and a joyful celebration of what it means to make a purposeful artistic […]
Manipulating Media
Nancy Natale visits the Mark Bradford exhibition at the ICA Boston. Natale discusses the materials and techniques Bradford employs: "… the works have a very strong physical presence, not only because of their enormous size but because of the thick layers of paper, the rough surface, their usually tattered bottom edges and the sense of […]
Hyper Real
Presenting photorealist work by painters such as Ralph Goings, Richard Estes and Chuck Close alongside photographs by Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky and Thomas Ruff, the exhibition Hyper Real at MUMOK "looks into the history of the interrelationship of painting and photography up into the present, presenting numerous important international positions."
Hockney’s Art of the iPad
While David Hockney is still making paintings the old fashioned way Culture Monster's Barbara Isenberg reports that "The art-making medium he’s using most these days is the iPad, brother to the iPhone, which he took up earlier. Whether he’s lying in bed or driving through snow-covered woods, his ever-ready iPhone and iPad are always by […]
It’s a Plane, Part 2
In her second post in a three part series on "The Plane" Joanne Mattera highlights work by Steven Alexander and Taro Suzuki at Heidi Cho Gallery and Sven Lukin's paintings at Gary Snyder Project Space. Lukin's shaped paintings break the picture plane and jut out into the gallery.
Deborah Brown, A Bushwick Painter
A James Kalm Report via Two Coats of Paint. Kalm visits Deborah Brown’s exhibition at Lesley Heller Gallery. Sharon Butler notes that Kalm “compares Brown’s paintings to those of Loren MacIver, who depicted the objects and incidents of her daily life in a fragile, ethereal style reminiscent of Marc Chagall and Paul Klee.”
Sergei Jensen
Excellent installation views of Sergei Jensen’s exhibition of paintings and works on paper at Portikus in Frankfurt. Jensen’s abstract paintings are accompanied by his drawings of dogs in an adjacent gallery. “Jute, linen, and colorful fabrics now on standardized stretcher frames and now on frames he builds himself are the materials Sergej Jensen uses as […]
Judy Ledgerwood
New City Art reviews Judy Ledgerwood’s exhibition Chromatic Patterns for Chicago. "Ledgerwood deftly appropriates Color Field abstraction’s scale and subsequent power to activate space and affect viewers by drenching Hoffman’s front room in prismatic vibrations." The exhibition includes "Two large paintings applied directly to opposite walls of the gallery… [and] dyed-urethane foam blobs (Blob Paintings)" […]