Visions and Revisions: Stanley Lewis at NYSS & Betty Cuningham
Stanley Lewis follows Giacometti’s emotive inroads with more pleasure than doubt, searching stabilized both by perspectival logic and moments of detail.
Merlin James at Sikkema Jenkins
Hyperallergic
John Yau reviews Merlin James: Paintings For Persons at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., on view through November 12, 2016. Yau writes that James “gets at all sorts of feelings without ever locking them into a narrative. He doesn’t tell us how to read his paintings. He gives us that responsibility and, in that regard, he is […]
John Zinsser: Studio visit
Two Coats of Paint
Sharon Butler visits the studio of painter John Zinsser. Zinsser’s work is currently on view in The Humanism of Abstraction at the Dedalus Foundation. The show, which also includes work by David Reed and Carrie Moyer, is on view through November 17, 2016. Butler observes: “Playfulness and improvisation, then, are parts of [Zinsser’s] process but […]
Daniel John Gadd: Studio Visit
Gorky's Granddaughter
Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy visit the studio of Daniel John Gadd whose exhibition For The Moon is on view at David&Schweitzer Contemporary, through November 13th, 2016.
McArthur Binion @ Kavi Gupta
New City Art
Elizabeth Lalley reviews McArthur Binion: Seasons at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, on view through November 22, 2016. Lalley writes: “In ‘Seasons,’ Binion’s layered marks form a series of grids. The physicality and repetition of the artist’s cross-hatching process results in pieces that are deceptively uniform from a distance, but upon closer inspection, are filled with […]
Barbara Rose on Painting After Postmodernism
The Art Newspaper
An excerpt from Barbara Rose’s catalog essay for the exhibition Painting After Postmodernism: Belgium / USA, on view through November 16 at Vanderborght and Cinéma Galeries/the Underground, Brussels. The show features works by Mil Ceulemans, Joris Ghekiere, Bernard Gilbert, Marc Maet, Werner Mannaers, Xavier Noiret-Thomé, Bart Vandevijvere, Jan Vanriet, Walter Darby Bannard, Karen Gunderson, Martin […]
Paul Feiler @ Jessica Carlisle
Studio International
Angeria Rigamonti di Cutó reviews works by Paul Feiler recently on view at Jessica Carlisle Gallery, London. Rigamonti Di Cutó writes: “As with other artists working in a constructivist-concrete vein, Feiler’s arrangements of rational, geometric forms yield curiously otherworldly sensations and suggest the tension between what the eye perceives and the brain imagines.”
Walter Darby Bannard: Modernism isn’t a style … it’s a working attitude
artcritical
Franklin Einspruch remembers painter Walter Darby Bannard (1934 – 2016) and considers Bannard’s recent paintings as the culmination of a lifelong exploration of abstraction: “Modernism isn’t a style, [Bannard] insisted, it’s a working attitude oriented toward visual excellence. ‘Modernism is aspiring, authoritarian, hierarchical, self-critical, exclusive, vertically structured, and aims for the best,’ he wrote in 1984. But […]
Helene Appel @ P420
Ruminations
Geoff Hands reviews Helene Appel: Washing up at P420, Bologna, on view through November 12, 2016. Hands writes: “[Appel] may have painted the images from life, eidetic memory or from reproductions (e.g. a photographic image). We do not know (without asking her) and have the option of constructing our own mini-histories for the making and […]
Agnes Martin: A Resolutely Solitary Endeavor
Two Coats of Paint
Sharon Butler blogs about the Agnes Martin retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, on view through January 11, 2017. Butler writes: “Martin’s austere paintings, with neutral palette and delicate line, are beautifully installed in the Guggenheim’s warm white ramp. Unlike other artists, Martin didn’t find her voice until she was well past forty and […]
Joan Semmel: Interview
Brooklyn Rail
Laila Pedro interviews painter Joan Semmel whose works were recently on view at at Alexander Gray Associates, New York. Semmel remarks: “I talk about [political and cultural] issues because they’re motivational. But I want the work to be seen as my painting, and the painting has been an essential and complete involvement for me, all the way […]
Jan Maarten Voskuil: Interview
Visual Discrepancies
Brent Hallard interviews Jan Maarten Voskuil. Hallard opens the discussion noting that Voskuil’s works are: “Deceptively simple, singularly shaped and formed, canvases bloom from the wall each in a different color. Hung together they suggest a word, a string of them, arranged to convey the written form, though any attempt to decipher or push this […]
Leslie Roberts: FYEO @ Minus Space
James Kalm Report
James Kalm visits the exhibition Leslie Roberts: FYEO at Minus Space, New York, and talks with the artist about her work. The show is on view through October 29, 2016. Kalm notes: “Making works on panel created through a process of textual coding and graphic design, Roberts has created one of the most inventive and […]
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry @ the Met Breuer
Artnet News
Christian Viveros-Fauné reviews Kerry James Marshall: Mastry at the Met Breuer, New York, on view through January 29, 2017. Viveros-Fauné writes: “Self-portraiture, religious painting, history painting, landscapes, nudes, fêtes champêtres, abstraction and other tropes have all been mobilized by [Kerry James Marshall] to achieve his lofty artistic goal of painterly self-representation. But rather than aspire […]
Sean Scully @ Mnuchin
artcritical
David Rhodes reviews Sean Scully: The Eighties recently on view at Mnuchin Gallery, New York. Rhodes writes: “Longing, melancholy and urgency all prevail in these paintings. This denies a place for complacency and evinces a drive and focus that both address art-historical connections, and the contemporary world vis-à-vis the particularity of Scully’s own experience, be it emotional […]
Don Voisine’s Universe of Shapes
Hyperallergic
John Yau reviews Don Voisine: X/V at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine, on view through October 28, 2016. Yau writes: “Voisine’s pieces demand attention; you need to study them up close and from a distance to fully appreciate the illusions the artist creates by way of a handful of shapes and a […]
Lois Dodd: Endless Summer
Artdeal Magazine
Addison Parks writes about the work of painter Lois Dodd. Parks observes: “It is a little like Giorgio Morandi. Through World Wars and revolutions we got still-lifes of jars and bottles and glasses, maybe some flowers, maybe a shift in palette. Something that didn’t change in a changing world. The same could be said of […]
Rosalyn Drexler: Varieties of Reclamation
Art in America
Raphael Rubinstein reviews Who Does She Think She Is? a retrospective of works by Rosalyn Drexler, recently on view at the Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum. Rubinstein writes : “Although she never ceased to rely on preexisting images, Drexler described to [interviews Roberta] Fallon sometimes feeling ‘very guilty’ about building her paintings from ‘something not […]
Suzanne Joelson: Interview
Two Coats of Paint
Michele Araujo interviews Suzanne Joelson on the occasion of Joelson’s exhibition Slipping Systems at Studio 10, Bushwick, Brooklyn, on view through November 13, 2016. Joelson comments: “I plot things out and let unanticipated relationships happen. The plot becomes a launching pad for a more open activity… The source and implications of my materials are engaging, but […]
Notes on Euan Uglow
Powers of Observation
Chris Bennett recalls his studies with Euan Uglow. Bennet writes: “[Uglow] was not interested in ‘painting something out of the corner of the eye’ but wanted to ‘attack’ it head on. Everything was to be looked at directly and ‘in focus’; he wasn’t interested in painting the sensation of a glance for example. He would […]