Celia Reisman: Interview
Antrese Wood interviews painter Celia Reisman. Reisman notes the importance of drawing to her work and comments about how, when sketching and drawing, you “allow yourself to respond to what your looking at in terms of seeing. I find myself in front of the subject and I edit as I go … it’s like a […]
T.J. Clark on Poussin
Jim Cuno inteviews art historian T.J. Clark about his experiences viewing paintings by Nicolas Poussin. Clark documented his time looking at Poussin in the 2006 book The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing. Clark remarks: “You look at a complex object like this, and you begin to ask, hm, what is actually being […]
Stuart Davis @ the Whitney
Karen Wilkin reviews Stuart Davis: In Full Swing at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, on view through September 25, 2016. Wilkin writes: "Strangely, the catalog essays ignore the importance of drawing to Davis’s repetitions, but the paintings with recycled motifs, which he likened to his beloved jazz musicians’ fluid improvisations on familiar […]
How Sean Scully Bent the Grid
Robert C. Morgan reviews Sean Scully: Circa 70 at Cheim & Read – 16–13 Stephen Street, Ridgewood, Queens on view through July 1, 2016. Morgan writes: "Eager to dispel any and all traces of what he knew was “out there,” Scully assiduously began to paint in relation to layering. Rather than forsaking the grid, he […]
Greg Drasler: Studio Visit
Sharon Butler visits the studio of painter Greg Drasler whose exhibition Road Trip is on view at Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York through August 5, 2016. Butler writes: "Imagine crossing the country before there was an interstate highway system but after the introduction of two-lane paved highways, say in the early 1950s, and you get […]
Oswaldo Vigas: Venezuelan Modernist
Lita Barrie reviews Oswaldo Vigas: Antologica 1943-2013 at the Museu de Arte Contemporanea da Universidade de Sao Paulo, on view through July 3, 2016. Barrie observes: "[Vigas'] characteristic mix of figuration and abstraction shows the clear influence of cubism, expressionism and constructivism, yet he always retained a distinctive flair for using fragments almost like fractals […]
Marcia Hafif @ Fergus McCaffrey
Barbara A. MacAdam reviews Marcia Hafif: The Italian Paintings, 1961–1969 is on view at Fergus McCaffrey Gallery, New York through June 25, 2016. MacAdam writes "For Hafif, who did graduate work in the Italian Renaissance and Far Eastern Art, that history is deeply embedded in her paintings, which reflect the affinities between Europe and the […]
Adrianne Rubenstein: Studio Visit
Maria Calandra visits the studio of painter Adrianne Rubenstein whose work is on view at White Columns, New York through July 16, 2016. Calandra writes: "[Rubenstein's] gestures go from fine and succinct to large and sweeping and use light pinks and cherry reds to offset grassy greens and minty blues — reminding me of the […]
Giorgio Morandi @ CIMA
Franklin Einspruch reviews works by Giorgio Morandi at the Center for Italian Modern Art, New York, on view through June 25, 2016. Einspruch writes that "CIMA emphasizes [Morandi's] work from the 1930s, which is the early side of the mature paintings… By the Thirties he figured out that his strengths lie in the landscape and […]
David Rhodes: Interview
Mary Jones interviews painter David Rhodes on the occasion of his exhibition Between the Days at Hionas Gallery, New York, on view through June 25, 2016. Rhodes comments: "I feel as if I follow the paintings. They’re not describing ideas that I have a priori, or illustrating something I desire to manifest through painting. I […]
Jasper Johns & Edvard Munch
Maev Kennedy previews Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch: Love, Loss and the Cycle of Life, on view at the Munch Museum, Oslo through September 25, 2016. The show examines the relationship between two paintings – one by Johns and one by Munch. The pictures bears similar titles that include the words "Between the Clock and […]
Joanne Greenbaum @ Rachel Uffner
John Yau reviews Joanne Greenbaum: New Paintings and Sculptures at Rachel Uffner, New York, on view through July 1, 2016. Yau writes: "In many of Greenbaum’s works, one sees the seeds of something that could become either a style or a formula. There are characteristics that seem uniquely hers – the row of evenly spaced […]
Arthur Yanoff @ the Mattatuck Museum
Piri Halasz reviews Sea and Stone: The Thimble Islands – Paintings by Arthur Yanoff at the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut, on view through July 24, 2016. Halasz writes that "Yanoff, who is based in the Berkshires, has over the years developed a technique that combines swathes, swabs and dabs of acrylic paint with small […]
Tomma Abts’ Enigmatic Abstracts
Louisa Buck reviews a recent exhibition of works by Tomma Abts at Greengrassi, London. Buck writes that "what appear to be straightforward relationships of form and colour are actually quite the opposite. Each work is built up from intricate overpaintings with previous traces left under the skin. The shapes emerge out of and retreat back […]
George Condo @ Spruth Magers
Lita Barrie reviews the recent exhibition George Condo: Entrance to the Void at Spruth Magers, Los Angeles. Barrie writes: "Condo explains that all these paintings are 'driven by musical influence.' We see iconic images referencing Picasso, Goya and Monet in these Condo paintings, deconstructed in much the same way the late Coltrane plays Rogers and […]
Bhupen Khakhar @ Tate Modern
Anna McNay reviews Bhupen Khakhar: You Can’t Please All at Tate Modern, on view through November 6, 2016. McNay begins: "From a distance, the paintings in this exhibition look like large-scale Indian miniatures, with their vibrant palette and simplified, flat, illustrative characters. Look more closely, however, and there are floating figures that could be from […]
The Brothers Le Nain
Karen Wilkin reviews The Brothers Le Nain: Painters of Seventeenth-Century France on view at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth through September 11, 2016. Wilkin writes: "The acclaimed scenes of peasants, seen indoors or against the rolling fields of Picardy, are the heart of the show. Especially in the outdoor scenes, the pale, eerie light, […]
William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master
Mary Anne Goley reviews William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master at the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., on view through September 11, 2016. Goley writes: "To strive to be modern, as Chase’s generation did, was to be party to an evolution in painting that was reductivist in matters of form and content, prefiguring the more radical […]
Charles Ritchie: Interview
Larry Groff interviews artist Charles Ritchie. Ritchie remarks: "A good way to introduce the subject of Giorgio Morandi’s work is to say he painted bottles. But, of course, his work really is about many things simultaneously. As far as my work goes, yes, light in the suburban home is a good way of introducing my […]
Louisa Matthíasdóttir & Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jonsson
Hovey Brock reviews Louisa Matthíasdóttir and Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jonsson at Tibor de Nagy, New York, on view through June 17, 2016. Brock writes that "[Matthíasdóttir's] surfaces, switching freely between thick and thin passages, show a quick, decisive hand with little evidence of pentimenti or erasures. The subjects alternate between scenes of sheep grazing in the […]