Doron Langberg on Jess
Doron Langberg considers Jess's The Enamored Mage: Tranlation #6, 1962. Landberg writes: "When I saw “The Enamored Mage” in person I was completely transfixed. Painted with heavy impasto, the protrusions of paint gush out of the surface, some following the image, some swelling under it. Slightly deflated and glossy, the shapes of color look simultaneously […]
Dozier Bell @ Danese/Corey
Carl Little reviews Dozier Bell: New Paintings and Drawings at Danese/Corey Gallery, New York, on view through November 15, 2014. Little writes: "Bell’s is a kind of darkly romantic vision, often northern in nature. Employing acrylic, photomontage and other means and mediums, over the years she has created a body of work that embraces enigma […]
Tomma Abts @ David Zwirner
Patrick Brennan reviews a recent exhibition of works by Tomma Abts at David Zwirner Gallery, New York. Brennan writes that Abts "welcomes the ambiguities of spatial illusionism, even alluding to shadow in places, but the spaces and volumes implied orient toward a discontinuous, pluralistic, non-homogeneous dimensionality… She implies multiple interpretations of visual movement to calibrate […]
Maria Lassnig in New York
Joyce Kozloff reflects on artist Maria Lassnig's time in New York during the 1970s and how the experiences of that decade affected her work. The post also includes thoughts from Martha Edelheit, Rosalind Schneider, and Silvianna Goldsmith, all of whom knew Lassnig during that period. Kozloff writes: "When the 2014 PS1 show was reviewed in the […]
Sarah McEneaney @ Tibor de Nagy
Michael Lieberman reviews Sarah McEneaney: Studio Living at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, on view through November 22, 2014. Lieberman writes: "McEneaney’s paintings rarely are populated with beings other than herself and her animals, and when others do appear, they often seem like doubles of the artist. McEneaney’s spaces often are deserted, undisturbed by […]
Hans Memling in Rome
Julie Beckers reviews Hans Memling: Flemish Renaissance at the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, on view through January 18, 2014. Beckers writes: "The visitor is guided through Memling’s long and successful career in seven elaborate sections that showcase early work alongside that of Van der Weyden… major commissions produced for his Italian patrons in Bruges, portraiture […]
Howardena Pindell: The Hole Truth
Raphael Rubinstein considers Howardena Pindell's works from the 1970s, which were recently on view at Garth Greenan Gallery, New York. Rubinstein notes that Pindell "used a hole punch to make stencils—from tin plates or stiff paper—through which she would spray paint onto the canvas. By mid-decade, the metal and paper circles—which this economical artist preserved-began […]
Neo Rauch: At the Well
Dan Piepenbring blogs about the exhibition Neo Rauch: At the Well at David Zwirner Gallery, New York, on view through December 20, 2014. Piepenbring writes: "Looking at Rauch’s paintings, you feel as if you’ve gotten lost in the corridors of a vast, oppressive Soviet bloc building and opened the wrong door: you’ve stumbled upon the neon […]
Harriet Korman: Jewel-Pure Color
Jill Nathanson reviews the recent exhibition Harriet Korman: Line or Edge, Line or Color at Lennon, Weinberg Inc., New York. Nathanson writes: "The works avoid assuming any sort of posture — high-tech, ironic, romantic, or post-this or that — drawing upon honest studio experimentation. Colors, in their variety, combinations and sequences, reference lived experiences from […]
Richard Tuttle @ The Whitechapel Gallery
John Bunker reviews Richard Tuttle: I Dont Know. The Weave of Textile Language at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, on view through December 14, 2014. Bunker writes: "‘Slacker Art’, ‘Crapstraction’ and other manifestations of what might be called the provisional trend in painting/sculpture have been well and truly played to death in the last 10 years. […]
Painting in Bushwick
James Kalm visits several painting exhibitions currently on view in Bushwick including: Abstraction and Its Discontents at Storefront Ten Eyck and Oskar Nilsson: Rehearsal at Interstate (both through November 23), and Andy Cross: Mirror Venus at SARDINE (through November 2). Abstraction and Its Discontents features works by Benjamin Adelmann, Meg Atkinson, Jeffrey Bishop, Sharon Butler, Miriam […]
Ed Moses: Cross-Section
Julia Friedman blogs about Ed Moses: Cross-Section at the University of California Irvine University Art Gallery, on view through December 13, 2014. Friedman writes: "Unlike many of his historical predecessors in the field of abstract painting… Moses … whose prolific and protean output spans over five decades, delegates the exegesis of his abstract paintings to […]
V.S. Gaitonde @ the Guggenheim
Natasha Kurchanova reviews V. S. Gaitonde: Painting as Process, Painting as Life at Guggenheim Museum, New York, on view through February 11, 2015. Kurchanova writes: "Gaitonde studied both traditional techniques of Indian mural and miniature painting and modern European masters, such as Kandinsky, Picasso and Matisse. A mixture of influences and styles is evident in […]
Chris Martin, Doppler Shift, Matthew Miller
James Panero reviews Chris Martin at Anton Kern Gallery (through November 15), Doppler Shift at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey (through January 15), and Matthew Miller: Can’t You See It, I Am One at Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden Pocket Utopia (through November 22). Panero writes that "Martin’s latest paintings are particularly indebted […]
James Bishop: Monumental Subtleties
Altoon Sultan blogs about the recent exhibition of works by James Bishop at David Zwirner Gallery, New York. Sultan notes that Bishop's paintings "require long and careful attention. Their architectonic structure emerges slowly from the subtly brushed and pooled layers of paint." In Untitled (1980), she writes "you will see the exquisitely balanced color relationships, […]
Joan Broan & Katherine Sherwood
David M. Roth reviews Joan Brown and Katherine Sherwood at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco through November 15, 2014. Roth writes that "the two painters share important links to SF’s history of mediating between the competing impulses of abstraction and representation… But the link that binds them most closely is their intensely personal focus… Brown […]
Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs
Jed Perl reviews Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs at MoMA, New York, on view through February 8, 2015. Perl writes: "Matisse brought an audacious, breakaway intelligence to traditional artistic conceptions and modes of expression. In his final decade he embarked on a mind-bending reconsideration of what may be the primal argument in European art, between the claims […]
Emily Carr: From the Forest to the Sea
Laura Cumming reviews From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, on view through March 8, 2015. Cumming writes: "Dulwich has more than a hundred paintings and drawings on show, but [the] forests are the peak – the pitch – of them all. It feels as […]
Chris Ofili @ The New Museum
James Kalm visits the retrospective exhibition Chris Ofili: Night and Day at The New Museum, New York, on view through January 25, 2015. From the press release: "For this exhibition, nine of [Ofili's recent paintings] are brought together for the first time in an architectural environment designed by the artist. Composed in dark hues of […]
Catherine Murphy Looks Ahead
John Yau writes about the work of Catherine Murphy. Yau observes: "I think of the instances that both [paintings] 'Bathroom Sink' and 'Cathy' depict as being transitory… The material world persists, but Murphy’s depictions of brief records of our physical presence acknowledge that they will be transformed into something in which no trace of our […]