Discovering Milton Resnick
Ploughshares
John Skoyles blogs about Milton Resnick: Painter in the Age of Painting, Geoffrey Dorfman’s new manuscript about New York School painter Milton Resnick. Skoyles writes: “The narrative contains transcriptions of interviews about the lives of artists of that period. Dorfman’s and Resnick’s sensibilities complement each other perfectly. As Dorfman notes, ‘There are two voices running […]
Dana Schutz: Profile
Blog post revisiting Steven Litt's 2007 profile of painter Dana Schutz republished on the occasion of Schutz's exhibition Fight in an Elevator at Petzel Gallery, New York. The exhibition press release notes that "Schutz’s figures are placed within compressed interiors where they are forced to struggle against the boundaries of their painted environments and up […]
Jack Tworkov: Mark and Grid
Joanne Mattera blogs about Jack Tworkov: Mark and Grid at Alexander Gray Associates, New York, on view through October 24, 2015. Mattera writes: "I was most taken with the work from the last two decades of [Tworkov's] life. The title of the show, Mark and Grid, best describes the work on the second floor … […]
Helen O’Leary: Interview
Diana Copperwhite interviews artist Helen O'Leary. O'Leary remarks: "I’m very aware of the collision between the old and new, destruction and rebuilding are very much a part of my practice. I think of how people construct lives and I construct paintings with awareness of the failures and foibles that are part and parcel of being […]
Catherine Lampert on Frank Auerbach
Catherine Lampert, author of the recent book Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting (Thames & Hudson), writes about her experiences sitting for portraits by Frank Auerbach. The exhibition Frank Auerbach is on view at Tate Britain through March 13, 2016. Lampert writes: "With a portrait his aim is not exactly to convey likeness, more an experience: […]
Paul Pagk: Studio Visit
Steven Alexander visits the studio of painter Paul Pagk. Alexander notes that "[Pagk] makes his own paint with ground pigments to achieve extraordinarily nuanced color. The entire space and its contents reflect Paul's relentless visual, intellectual and intuitive explorations – probing painting's endless possibilities."
Alex Kanevsky at Dolby Chadwick
David M. Roth reviews Alex Kanevsky: Unstable Equilibrium at Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, on view through 31, 2015. Roth writes that "[Kanevsky] is above all else a sensualist and a formalist. He paints to describe the eternal tug-o-war between the tangible and the ineffable, and, more specifically, to chart how bodies behave at different […]
Occo Socko! @ Stout Projects
James Kalm visits Occo Socko!, the inaugural exhibition at Stout Projects, Bushwick, Brooklyn, on view through November 13, 2015. The show features works by Rebecca Murtaugh, Matthew Neil Gehring and Paul Behnke. The artists' works are tied together, as Kalm notes, by "individual approaches in their practices to using intense color."
Jordan Casteel: Interview
Allie Biswas interviews painter Jordan Casteel on the occasion of the exhibition Brothers at Sargent's Daughters, New York, on view through November 15, 2015. Casteel comments: "The current show features groups of figures as opposed to a singular figure. Yes, this development is directly related to how one male feels in relation to the others […]
Jackie Saccoccio on Graham Collins
Jackie Saccoccio visits Graham Collins: Stadiums at The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn (on view through November 1) with Alex Greenberger. Greenberger reports: "Saccoccio pointed to Ridgeline (2015), for which Collins quartered a pool. In the process, he slashed the vinyl, and threw on Pollock-like spatters of mint-green and white paint. 'With a piece like this, I […]
Lennart Anderson (1928-2015)
Brian Schumacher and A’Dora Phillips remember painter Lennart Anderson (1928-2015). Anderson was the subject of their 2014 film Lennart Anderson: Seeing with Light. Schumacher and Phillips begin: "We are deeply saddened by the loss of Lennart Anderson, a perceptual painter, a painter of the figure, a painter of still life and of landscape in the […]
Katherine Bernhardt @ Venus Over Manhattan
A. Zlotowitz reviews Katherine Bernhardt Pablo and Efrain at Venus Over Manhattan, on view through October 24, 2015. Zlotowitz writes: "Approaching each painting, there is a painterly hand similar to early impressionist explorations, but with Bernhardt’s familiar hodgepodge of content. Incorporating the birds, sharks, cigarettes and fruits she encountered in Puerto Rico, she brings the […]
Goya: The Portraits
Martin Oldham reviews Goya: The Portraits at the National Gallery London, on view through January 10, 2016. Oldham writes: "If there is a disruptive element here, it is Francisco de Goya y Lucientes himself. He may have been the servant of the Spanish elite, but his frank and often unflattering portraits betray a human vulnerability […]
Jason Duval: Studio Visit
Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy visit the studio of painter Jason Duval. Duval remarks: "The things that are really important to me are materiality, the sense of an object and a picture that was made by a person in real time. And also that the finished painting, that the picture itself, is in a sense […]
Bobbie Oliver @ Valentine
David Rhodes reviews Bobbie Oliver: Paintings at Valentine Gallery, New York, on view through October 18, 2015. Rhodes writes: "Forever, for Hudson (#1) is a good place to begin contemplating Oliver’s work. It is characteristic of her oeuvre, technically and chromatically. Paint is applied, often wet into wet, and then manipulated using a variety of […]
Sam Gilliam: Profile
William Fowler profiles painter Sam Gilliam. Fowler notes that in recent years Gilliam had been working in relative obscurity despite the fact that in the 60s and 70s he "was considered one of abstract art’s great innovators, one of the first painters to break the frame." Gilliam's work will be on view at David Kordansky's […]
Maud Gatewood @ UNC Greensboro
A conversation around alternative career strategies (including blogs) open to artists today, including those who live outside major art centers.
Tim Tozer: Interview
Chris Lowrance interviews painter Tim Tozer on the occasion of the his exhibition The Visit on view at Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, through October 17, 2015. Tozer comments: "I’m excited about making paintings that accept all the limitations of paint and surface, and simultaneously try to make this stuff transform into qualities that paintings can only […]
The Existential Experience of a Chardin Still Life
Hyperallergic
John Goodrich blogs about viewing Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin’s Seville Orange, Silver Goblet, Apples, Pear and Two Bottles (1750) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Goodrich writes that “the painting provides something of an existential experience. For more conventional artists, painting representationally means starting with a recognizable enough rendering and then adding the ‘art’: suggestive […]
Seeing Nature
Jeff Jahn reviews Seeing Nature at the Portland Art Museum (PAM), Oregon, on view though January 10, 2016. Jahn writes that the show, "drawn from Paul Allen's collection … is a kind of survey of landscape paintings throughout history and as such maps the shifting expectations that viewers have for looking at what we consider […]