Eric Holzman @ Lori Bookstein
Jonathan Goodman reviews the recent exhibition Eric Holzman: Small Paintings at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York. Goodman writes: "Painting, which is far from dead, is in the hands of Eric Holzman singingly alive… Holzman bravely undertakes the recording nature in all its particularity, a stance still capable of engaging, even moving the viewer in the […]
Matthew Bollinger on Gregory Gillespie
Matthew Bollinger considers Gregory Gillespie's painting Self-Portrait on Bed (1973-74). Bollinger writes: "When I saw Self-Portrait on Bed in person … I immediately walked up close to it. As I approached, the painting switched from comprehensive illusion to a fragmented material world. Some of the paint Gillespie allowed to act as itself—the painted palette in […]
Marlene Dumas @ Tate Modern
Francesco Dama reviews Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden at Tate Modern, London, on view through May 10, 2015. Dama writes: "Dumas never paints from life. She would rather work from photographs, images cut from magazines or newspapers, postcards, reproductions of artworks from every period and style… the [recent Luc Tuymans] case draws attention, once […]
Dan McCleary: Interview
John Seed interviews painter Dan McCleary whose show Every Day Sacred is on view at the USC Fisher Museum through March 7, 2015. McCleary remarks: "I will have the model come and pose for drawings and sometimes a photograph. The models return many times and pose in sets I build in the studio… It can […]
Elizabeth O’Reilly: Interview
Larry Groff interviews painter Elizabeth O'Reilly about her work. Responding to a question about "looking at nature closely as a means of getting out of your head," O'Reilly comments: "I think that it stops me being self-conscious because it’s not something that I carefully set up and have this serious thought about which object goes […]
Nicholas Krushenick: Inventing Pop Abstraction
Stephen Westfall reviews Nicholas Krushenick: Electric Soup at the Tang Museum at Skidmore College, on view through August 16, 2015. Westfall writes: "Krushenick's work is too Pop for the abstract purists and too abstract for Pop's populism. Maybe that's why it doesn't look dated in the least… Krushenick's paintings are akin to representation in the […]
Gary Petersen @ THEODORE:Art
James Kalm visits Gary Petersen: Not now, but maybe later at THEODORE:Art, Bushwick, Brooklyn. The video includes an extended interview with Petersen about the work in the show and a short interview with gallerist Stephanie Theodore.
Contemporary Painting @ MoMA: Roundtable
Nora Griffin, Becky Brown, Dennis Kardon, Carrie Moyer, Raphael Rubinstein, and Jason Stopa discuss The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, on view through April 5, 2015. The show features works by works by Richard Aldrich, Joe Bradley, Kerstin Brätsch, Matt Connors, Michaela Eichwald, […]
Jon Schueler @ David Findlay Jr.
Mary Ann Caws reviews Jon Schueler: The New York Years, 1975-1981 recently on view at David Findlay Jr. Gallery, New York. Caws writes: "After studying with the great and eccentric Clyfford Still at the California School of the Arts, exhibiting with the Abstract Expressionists in New York, and having endured stints of teaching on the […]
Stanley Whitney: Care of the Brush
Whitney’s abstractions remind us of the sumptuousness that surrounds us, then propel us back out into the world to see it for ourselves.
Sharon Hall: Interview
Charley Peters interviews painter Sharon Hall about her work. Hall comments: "The paintings evolve from a starting point that uses simple geometry for dividing up the overall surface area through an implicit and rational use of proportion. I have always tried to avoid complex mathematical or geometric permutations in my works, and I strive for […]
Mark Rothko @ Harvard
Charles Kessler blogs about Mark Rothko's digitally restored Harvard Murals on view at the Harvard Art Museums through July 2, 2015. Kessler writes that the exhibition "is not only about a group of Mark Rothko paintings done at the peak of his career, but it’s also about an ingenious restoration technique – a way to […]
Peter Malone: Interview
Jeanne Wilkinson interviews painter Peter Malone, whose exhibition Portraits is on view at Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, through February 21, 2015. Malone comments: "A painting should be more than proof that the painter had an experience that was personally meaningful to them. The result of their work should be meaningful to the viewer as […]
Ken Weathersby: Interview
Painter's Bread
Michael Rutherford interviews painter Ken Weathersby about his work. Weathersby comments: "There is a certain territory that I’ve been involved in for eight or nine years, to do with reshuffling the given parts of painting. By 'given parts' I mean the wooden stretcher, the canvas or linen, the paint film, staples or hardware—the things paintings […]
Tal R: Interview
Phong Bui interviews painter Tal R, whose show Altstadt Girl is on view at Cheim & Read, New York, through February 14, 2015. R comments: "What I want is to stay very close to a kind of impulse that evokes a narrative without the necessary details. This impulse for me feeds action. I develop this […]
Terry Winters: Interview
Jennifer Samet interviews painter Terry Winters. Winters comments: "The pictures are painted through call-and-response — a series of spontaneous interactions. I’m finding images and making drawings. I’m working from that material. That activity of making the paintings is what the paintings are. Hopefully when finished they suggest a larger, unforeseen view… My interest is to […]
Piero di Cosimo @ The National Gallery
Peter Schjeldahl reviews Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., on view through May 3, 2015. Schjeldahl writes that di Cosimo "devoured influences—Leonardo, Filippino Lippi, Flemish painting—and espoused radical ideas, notably a borderline heretical vision of human prehistory as brutally primitive. Compulsively original, he […]
Wendy White: Studio Visit
Maria Calandra visits the studio of painter Wendy White. Calandra writes: "I was first struck by the stature of White's paintings and their captivating trophy-like qualities. Their sides were a slick reflective yellow gold and they were leaning stoically against the wall, safely positioned on hand trimmed rugs saturated in neon colors. I could envision […]
Into Forrest Bess
Addison Parks reprises his 1982 article Into Bess: The Paintings of Forrest Bess. Parks writes: "The space of the Bess image moves like a lawless dream. This kind of space is called conceptual because it can be flat, deep, massive, upside-down, bird's-eye, and backwards all at the same time. It answers to form and not […]
Clayton Colvin: Quiet Assertions
Brett Levine reviews Clayton Colvin: new way to forget at Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL, on view through March 27, 2015. Levine writes: "With this show, Colvin has almost, though not entirely, abandoned his earlier, more complex hard-edged radical geometries in favor of a saturated and fluid field. Glanton and The Land, in particular, are […]