Gallery Chronicle: Six New York Shows
James Panero reviews six New York shows: Keith A. Smith: The Fabric Works: 1964–1980 at Bruce Silverstein (through June 6), Karen Schwartz: Down the Rabbit Hole at Life on Mars Gallery (through May 31), Mel Bernstine at McKenzie Fine Art (through May 3), Graham Nickson: Spectrum at Betty Cuningham Gallery (through May 22), Louise P. Sloane: […]
Richard Timperio: Studio Visit
Paul Behnke photo blogs a studio visit with painter Richard Timperio whose work is on view at Andre Zarre Gallery, New York through May 9, 2015. Behnke notes: "Timperio's bold color and interlocking forms lay the groundwork for the paintings' formal concerns and create a backdrop for primed canvas outlines, imperfections in the surface, and […]
Mapping Joyce Kozloff
Jack Hartnell writes about the work of Joyce Kozloff whose work was recently on view at DC Moore Gallery and is on view in Mapping Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Historical Society, through September 6, 2015. Hartnell writes: "The political and the decorative remain intertwined in Kozloff’s work, the urgency of her social commentary never far […]
Todd Bienvenu: Interview
Laura Mylott Manning interviews painter Todd Bienvenu. Bienvenu comments: "If you get personal in the work it’s more likely to resonate in a universal way. My friends show up in the paintings, drinking buddy as muse. They all start as automatic drawing, abstract marks and then I see an image in the mess and it […]
Jason Karolak: Interview
Jennifer Samet interviews painter Jason Karolak whose work is on view in the group exhibition Full Tilt at Novella Gallery, New York, through May 10, 2015. Karolak comments: "I want to have one form in the painting at the end. It may have multiple elements or a network-like feel. But I still want it to […]
Diebenkorn @ the Royal Academy of Arts
Jeremy Harding reviews and exhibition of works by Richard Diebenkorn at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, on view March 14 – June 2, 2015. Harding concludes: "The last room celebrates Diebenkorn’s return to abstract painting. We’ve understood by now that his career was not a single, mechanical oscillation from abstract through figurative and back, but […]
John Dubrow: Interview
James Kalm talks with painter John Dubrow at his recent exhibition Transformations at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York. Kalm notes that "Many of [Dubrow's] paintings have undergone years of revisions and repainting. The resultant surfaces and compositions bare the patina of this long struggle."
Charline von Heyl: Düsseldorf: Paintings
Rachel Williams reviews Charline von Heyl: Düsseldorf: Paintings from the early 90s at Petzel Gallery, New York, on view through May 2, 2015. Williams writes that von Heyl is "known for an eclectic style which admires both the natural and the constructed. Serving as a window into the painter’s early work and artistic roots, [the […]
Bill Jensen @ Cheim & Read
Bradley Rubenstein reviews Bill Jensen: Transgressions at Cheim & Read, New York, on view through May 9, 2015. Rubenstein writes: "Jensen strives for an ego-less, unpretentious practice devoid of preconceived outcomes, surrendering to the painting process, allowing it to determine the path and destination of his work. His intensive layering and reworking of the canvas […]
On the Money & From Now On In
Matthew Neil Gehring blogs about two shows at Brian Morris Gallery, New York: On the Money (through May 17), featuring works by Alison Hall, Suzanne Jolson, Zachary Keeting, Jenna Pirelli, David Rhodes, and Gary Stephan; and From Now On In (closed) featuring works by Michael Berryhill, Tom Burkhardt, Steve DiBenedetto, Lydia Dona, Fabian Marcaccio, Carrie […]
Karen Schwartz & Margrit Lewczuk
Etty Yaniv reviews Karen Schwartz: Down the Rabbit Hole and works on paper by Margrit Lewczuk at Life on Mars Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, on view through May 31, 2015. Yaniv writes that Schwartz's paintings "conjure a sense of grief with the gusto of life. Equipped with her intense inward gaze as a professional therapist, Schwartz […]
Lisa Yuskavage: Interview
Thomas Gebremedhin interviews painter Lisa Yuskavage whose work is on view at David Zwirner, New York, through June 13, 2015. Yuskavage comments: "I’ve gotten cease and desist letters. They’ve called me pornographic, like it’s a bad thing. We are living in a world where you have to go to battle to have an open mind. […]
Goya Takes Flight
Jenny Uglow reviews Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album at the Courtauld Gallery, London, on view through May 25, 2015. Uglow writes: "Most of the drawings date from 1819 to 1820, when Goya was in his early seventies. In 1819 he had bought his house in the country, where he covered the walls with […]
Alexi Worth @ DC Moore Gallery
Roman Kalinovski reviews the recent exhibition Alexi Worth: Green Glass Doors at DC Moore Gallery, New York. Kalinovski observes: "Worth uses non-traditional supports and techniques in his work. Painting with airbrushed acrylic on nylon mesh or Mylar has the effect of layering illusionistic space on top of the painting’s actual, material space. In areas where […]
Todd Kelly & Morgan Mandalay @ LVL3
Kerry Cardoza reviews works by Todd Kelly & Morgan Mandalay at LVL3, Chicago, on view through May 10, 2015. Cardoza writes: "The works by Todd Kelly and Morgan Mandalay … help bring the concept of the still life into the twenty-first century. Kelly’s pieces are the more straightforward of the two, with influences ranging from […]
Patrick Jones: Studio Visit
Mark Skilton, Hilde Skilton, John Bunker, Nick Moore, Sam Cornish, Robin Greenwood, Sarah Greenwood, Anne Smart, Anthony Smart, Ben Wiedel- Kaufmann, Noela James, and Emyr Williams visit the studio of painter Patrick Jones. Jones introduces the work noting that "the paintings, to me, are to do with the fact that I work very, very thinly, […]
Leonora Carrington @ Tate Liverpool
Alice Spawls reviews an exhibition of works by Leonora Carrington at Tate Liverpool, on view through May 31, 2015. Spawls writes: "[Carrington] refused to explain her personal symbolism, but called reading The White Goddess ‘the greatest revelation of my life’. The figure of the muse, Robert Graves’s ‘Mother of all Living, the ancient power of […]
Leo Bates: Painting in the Shadows
Annie Correal profiles painter Leo J. Bates (1944-2013). Correal writes: "Looking at Mr. Bates’s work, it is clear that something happened when he left Manhattan and moved to Brooklyn. When he plunged into deep solitude, he found something new… Mr. Bates’s last paintings were huge X’s and chevrons that when examined closely revealed tiny grids […]
Blinky Palermo: An Expansive Minimalism
Altoon Sultan blogs about the recent exhibition Palermo Works 1973-1976 at David Zwirner Gallery, New York. Sultan observes: "Looking at the long black line on the left wall, I see that it has some weight and presence, but it's not quite a sculpture. It is, rather, a long narrow, irregular painting, pointed on both ends […]
Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series
Anne Blood reviews One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Works at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, on view through September 7, 2014. Blood writes: "Lawrence conceived the Migration Series as a single work composed of 60 parts … He began by writing the captions, which were then edited by his […]