Bill Jensen & David Hinton on Painting & Poetry
Bill Jensen and David Hinton discuss "Eastern philosophy, Chinese poetry and painting." Jensen remarks: "Early on, I realized that I could not paint very strong aesthetic events just by looking out at something. I thought that if I could somehow make my art a living tissue, that everyday I could go to the studio and […]
If Color Could Kill
Paul Behnke photoblogs images from the recent exhibition If Color Could Kill, curated by Jeff Frederick, on view at the Salena Gallery, Long Island University. The show featured works by Paul Behnke, Trudy Benson, Patrick Berran, Robert Otto Epstein, Keltie Ferris, Brooke Moyse, Gary Petersen and Craig Taylor, and will travel to Vassar College in […]
Marcia Hafif: Interview
Phong Bui interviews painter Marcia Hafif whose exhibition The Italian Paintings, 1961–1969 is on view at Fergus McCaffrey Gallery, New York through June 25, 2016. Hafif, who has engaged for decades with monochrome painting, recalls painting a still life while studying with Richards Ruben: "I began using a single color and digging into it and […]
Sarah Faux: Interview
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Jonathan Chapline and Lorraine Nam interview painter Sarah Faux. Faux comments: “I think a lot in analogies between the substance of paint and bodily fluid. Like oil paint being a physical oily skin, or poured pigment reading as blood, urine, semen… The physicality of paint and the experience of living inside a fleshy mass are […]
Louise Fishman: Interview
William J. Simmons interviews painter Louise Fishman. A Retrospective of Fishman's work is on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art through July 31. Concurrently, Paper Louise Tiny Fishman Rock is on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia through August 14. Fishman comments: "… it has always been a problem for my career […]
Ryan Nord Kitchen: Small Abstracts, Big Impact
Roberta Smith reviews Ryan Nord Kitchen: Winter Paintings at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, on view though May 22, 2016. Smith writes: "Mr. Kitchen works fast and loose on tablet-size canvases, reducing painting’s proclivity for grand gesture to a series of intimate scribbles, lines, dots, notional marks and hints of initials and artists’ signatures, as well […]
Black and White
Joanne Mattera blogs about a selection of New York shows featuring black and white works including: Melissa Meyer, New Work at Lennon, Weinberg (through May 7), Tamar Zinn, At the Still Point at Kathryn Markel Fine Art (through May 7), Ellsworth Kelly, Photographs at Matthew Marks Gallery (closed), Rob de Oude, Tilts and Pinwheels at dm contemporary […]
Philip Guston Painter, 1957 – 1967
James Kalm visits Philip Guston Painter, 1957-1967 at Hauser & Wirth, New York, on view through 29 Jul 2016. Kalm notes that Guston "was an essential member of the New York painting community, achieving major institutional and critical recognition during the 1950s. Despite this success, in the late 1950s he began questioning many of the […]
Ellen E. Rand: Interview
Christine Hughes interviews painter Ellen E. Rand on the occasion of Rand's recent exhibition at Figureworks, Brooklyn. Rand comments: "Years ago, when I was at the Met, I saw a Manet painting of a sailor in a boat with one or two women. I like to read some of the information about a painting – […]
David Reed: Baroque Noir
Barbara A. MacAdam reviews David Reed: New Paintings at Peter Blum Gallery, New York on view through June 25, 2016. MacAdam writes: "Reed’s work has always been marked by a peculiar lushness manifesting itself in ribbons of variegated color unfolding at a seductive pace. The baroque forms often intertwine in dense configurations against flat solid-tone […]
Serge Poliakoff @ Cheim & Read
Rob Colvin reviews Serge Poliakoff at Cheim & Read, New York, on view through April 30, 2016. Colvin writes: "Why the artist fell of the map isn’t as clear as why he’s getting put back on it. Poliakoff’s ability to fracture and mend space, illuminate flat planes, and structure abstract forms into a figural unity […]
Etel Adnan & Good Natured Painting
Addison Parks considers the paintings of Etel Adnan. Parks writes: "When left to one's own devices the focus is where it belongs, on the world around us, on the wonder around us. Klee, Dove, Frankenthaler, Avery, and Adnan, this is what they have in common. This simplicity. This clarity. This integrity. This center. This heart. […]
Nathlie Provosty: (the third ear)
James Kalm visits the exhibition Nathlie Provosty: (the third ear) at Nathlie Karg Gallery, New York, on view through May 8, 2016. In addition to a walk-through of the show, Kalm talks with Provosty about the work. The gallery press release notes that "the exhibition plumbs the phenomenon of visual inaudible sound. Inaudible sound is […]
Vincent Longo: Interview
Janet Goleas interviews painter Vincent Longo. Longo remarks: "It's all predicated on a statement that Picasso made many years ago. He said “I don't seek, I find.” I start with one thing and it leads to another. That's it. It keeps going until either I see something happening or not, and decide what to do. […]
June Leaf: Interview
Jennifer Samet interviews artist June Leaf. An exhibition of Leaf's drawings, Thought is Infinite, opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, on April 27, 2016. Leaf remarks: "When a piece is ready, it says, 'Okay. It’s not as good as you thought, but just go.' I don’t know what it is. That would be […]
On the Paintings of John Havens Thornton
Jeffrey Grunthaner writes about John Havens Thornton: A Survey of Paintings Spanning 50 years, 1964-2014 at Amstel Gallery New York inside The Yard, Flatiron. The show, curated by Laetitia Lina and Gregory de la Haba is on view through May 30, 2016. Grunthaner writes: "Thornton's paintings, however reductive, are not minimalist… Thornton paints "transcendence" in […]
Philip Pearlstein: Interview
Janet McKenzie interviews painter Philip Pearlstein. Pearlstein comments that "teaching was itself a great learning process. One of the artists I fell in love with while I was an art history student was Mondrian. I used the library at the Museum of Modern Art for my research on Picabia and Duchamp and when I needed […]
The Moon and Serpent
Scott Robinson reviews The Moon and Serpent at Orgy Park, Brooklyn, New York, on view through April 17, 2016. Robinson writes: "The Moon and Serpent at Orgy Park is a show that lingers from the past when you’re quiet. Ashley Garrett, Emily K. Davidson, and Mike Olin present a show about personal and collective memory… […]
Stephen Greene @ Jason McCoy Gallery
Natasha Seaman reviews Stephen Greene: 1960s Abstractions @ Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, on view through April 30, 2016. Seamen notes that the "difficulty translating the visual into verbal is not just an indicator of the paintings’ complexity. Stephen Greene was a figurative artist until the mid 1950s, and in these works he seems not […]
Helen Lundeberg @ the Laguna Art Museum
Peter Plagens reviews Helen Lundeberg: A Retrospective at the Laguna Art Museum, on view through May 30, 2016. Plagens begins: "The art of the Southern California painter Helen Lundeberg (1908-1999) is nothing if not clear, and she was nothing if not clear about it: 'My aim, realized or not,' she said in 1942, 'is to […]