Langdon Quin @ The Painting Center
Simon Carr reviews Langdon Quin: Recent Paintings at The Painting Center, New York, on view through April 25, 2015. Carr writes that in Quin's painting Down & Out (2013) "the foreground tumbles steeply down at the base of the canvas. The eye is launched into a sharp decline before rising up again with another hillside. In […]
Post Analog Painting @ The Hole
James Kalm visits the exhibition Post Analog Painting at The Hole, New York. The show includes works by Trudy Benson, Mariah Dekkenga, Robert Otto Epstein, Mark Flood, Jeanette Hayes, Adam Henry, KATSU, Misaki Kawai, Jonathan Lasker, Rachel Lord, Neil Raitt, Josh Reames, Joe Reihsen, Nathan Ritterpusch, Michael Staniak and Matthew Stone. Kalm notes that the […]
Brenda Goodman: Interview
Ashley Garrett interviews painter Brenda Goodman about her work and career. Goodman's recent paintings are on view at Life on Mars Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, through April 19, 2015. Goodman remarks: "I don’t get in front of a painting and think I’m going to be open or I’m going to be vulnerable or I’m going to […]
Frances Walker: Interview
Janet McKenzie interviews painter and printmaker Frances Walker. Walker comments: "This is what it is all about: to be able to communicate with someone I haven’t even met. For me, that is what making art is all about. I am not making works to sell, that is a byproduct. I’m not doing them to impress […]
Andrew Baron: Backstory
As part of the Backstory series, Andrew Baron reflects on his work. Baron's solo exhibition Welcome Fellow Travelers is on view at R.Jampol Project(s), New York through May 10, 2015. After years of incorporating text in his paintings, Baron writes that in his recent work: "I abandoned the use of text in my painting, but not […]
Giotto to Caravaggio: The Passions of Roberto Longhi
Jackie Wullschlager reviews From Giotto to Caravaggio: The Passions of Roberto Longhi at the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, on view through July 20, 2015. Wullschlager writes: "A century ago Italian art historian Roberto Longhi radically reconsidered Renaissance pictures in the light of the contemporary avant-garde… [this exhibition] is a thoughtful, sensitively selected, exquisite connoisseur’s show recounting […]
Kurt Moyer: Interview
Larry Groff interviews painter Kurt Moyer. Discussing his series of paintings of bathers, Moyer comments: "The Barnes and Philly collections are so full of bather-themed paintings by Cezanne, Renoir, and Matisse that I just accepted 'Bathers' as a subject for painting that was as common-place to me as 'Landscape' or 'Still life'. I admire Cezanne’s […]
Jack Bush & Jock Macdonald
Ken Carpenter profiles Canadian abstract painters Jack Bush and Jock Macdonald. The retrospective of works by Jack Bush will be on view at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (May 30 – August 23, 2015.) and Jock Macdonald: Evolving Form is on view at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario (through May 24) and will […]
Brenda Goodman @ Life on Mars
John Yau reviews Brenda Goodman: New Work at Life on Mars Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, on view through April 19, 2015. Yau writes: "There are few contemporary artists who can make a convincing narrative painting, one that doesn’t devolve into a mere story. Brenda Goodman is one of them. Her densely packed surfaces convey a state […]
Liat Yossifor: Matters of Structure
Christopher Michno profiles painter Liat Yossifor whose exhibition Eight Movements is on view at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe Gallery, New York through April 18, 2015. Michno writes: "Yossifor’s gray paintings are most easily identifiable in connection with AbEx and the New York School. She advances the idea that as she makes large gestural sweeps […]
Steve DiBenedetto @ Derek Eller
John Yau reviews Steve DiBenedetto: Mile High Psychiatry continues at Derek Eller Gallery, New York, on view through April 18, 2015. Yau writes: "In an age of signature gestures and stylistic branding, artists who change and, more importantly, are able to expand the possibilities of their work are few and far between. The most obvious […]
Rick Briggs: Interview
Valerie Brennan interviews painter Rick Briggs. Briggs comments: "Basically, I'm always working out of personal need and want my work to reflect my life. This has been true of my abstract work as well as the representational work. Previously with the Painter Man series, I worked in a narrative way because I needed to tell […]
Diana Copperwhite: Interview
Helen O'Leary interviews painter Diana Copperwhite on the occasion of her show A Million and One Things Under the Sun at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, on view through April 25, 2015. Copperwhite comments: "I love the large scale of paintings, they make me feel like a director of my own movie. Its also a way […]
Walter Darby Bannard: Interview
Franklin Einspruch interviews painter Walter Darby Bannard on the occasion of an exhibition of Bannard's Minimal Color Field Paintings, 1958-1965 at Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, through April 18, 2015. Bannard comments on the period of his work in the show, noting that his interest was in "[s]implicity that’s not Cubist-derived. Mondrian is Cubist-derived, and […]
Peter Williams @ Novella
Sara Roffino reviews a recent show of paintings by Peter Williams at Novella Gallery, New York. Roffino writes: "If one were to glance briefly at Williams’s works, the bright palette and carnivalesque scenes might belie the violence depicted. And, even after spending time with the paintings, processing that violence and thinking about the very real […]
Vera Iliatova @ Monya Rowe
Rob Colvin reviews Vera Iliatova: For Now, At Once at Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, on view through April 12, 2015. Colvin writes: "New to the artist’s work is the appropriation of the still life as a foreground element to the background landscape. This is a motif drawn most explicitly from Jane Freilicher … In contrast […]
Painting Now
Janet McKenzie reviews the new book Painting Now by Suzanne Hudson, published by Thames and Hudson. McKenzie writes that "Hudson’s text is a vital argument for the importance of painting, and she explores the manner in which the vast field can be reapproached, challenged and reimagined with great alacrity… The chapters enable a critical thread […]
Contemporary British Abstraction
Andy Parkinson blogs about the exhibition Contemporary British Abstraction at SE9 Container Gallery, Eltham, on view through April 11, 2015. The show, curated by artists Matthew Macaulay and Terry Greene, features work by: David Ainley, Ralph Anderson, Dominic Beattie, Chris Baker, Andrew Bick, Katrina Blannin, Claudia Boese, Julian Brown, EC, Ben Cove, Clem Crosby, Pen […]
Annelie McKenzie @ CB1 Gallery
Jason Ramos reviews Annelie McKenzie: The Enthusiast at CB 1 Gallery, Los Angeles on view through April 11, 2015. Ramos writes: "As McKenzie herself puts it, an explanatory metaphor for her paintings is that they are cover songs. The cover song description … offers more conceptual clues and implies the proclivities of the artist herself. […]
Donald Baechler: Studio Visit
Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy visit the studio of artist Donald Baechler. Baechler comments: "I don't see [the work] as happy or upbeat… I think of [the objects in the paintings] as very isolated… the isolated ice cream cone, for me it's a kind of melancholy thing, it's not really a happy thing. In some […]