Jack Whitten: Interview
Tyler Green talks to painter Jack Whitten on the occasion of the exhibition Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting, at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, on view through January 4, 2015. Whitten comments: "It was de Kooning that I became really attached to in terms of gesture, to the point that, by the […]
Carrie Moyer on Elizabeth Murray
Carrie Moyer writes about the work of painter Elizabeth Murray. Moyer notes: "For me, Murray’s highly inventive approach to the figure/ground relationship and composition in general form the core of her oeuvre — so much so that all other aspects of the work feel sometimes ancillary in comparison. Color, line and form seem to be […]
Stanley Lewis @ Betty Cuningham Gallery
David Carbone reviews an exhibition of paintings by Stanley Lewis at Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, on view through October 25, 2014. Carbone writes that Lewis’s works "carry a real one-two punch. Here are deliberately banal subjects — backyards, suburban scenes, calendar views of Lake Chautauqua — transformed by a brilliant but tortured way of […]
Yearning Upwards, Painting Trees
Interview with painter Emily Berger, curator of Yearning Upwards, Painting Trees at The Painting Center, New York.
Deborah Brown: A Painterly Trajectory
Sharon Butler posts an essay on the work of Deborah Brown by Paul D'Agostino, written for the exhibition Deborah Brown: Recent Paintings, curated by Matthew Neil Gehring at the Flecker Gallery at Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York. (through October 17, 2014). D'Agostino concludes: "Infused with formal freeness, informed by freedom of imagination, embellished with […]
Christopher Le Brun: Interview
Jill Spalding interviews painter Christopher Le Brun on the occasion of his exhibition at Friedman Benda, New York, on view through October 18, 2014. Le Brun comments: "The potency of buried content can be as psychologically powerful as narrative; every brushstroke throws off an association… I let the work speak for itself. I don’t push […]
Clem Crosby @ George Lawson
Julia Couzens reviews Clem Crosby: Short Ride in a Fast Machine at George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, on view through October 4, 2014. Couzens writes: "These modestly scaled, loose-limbed paintings create elegant, seemingly effortless tablets of paint tracks, trails, blots, and drools. It is not possible to encounter Crosby’s work without thinking about the physical […]
Josh Dorman: Interview
Haleigh Collins interviews painter Josh Dorman on the occasion of the exhibition Josh Dorman: Whorled at Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, on view through October 11, 2014. Dorman comments that in his paintings he wants “to create an alternate universe. I want to merge different systems and spaces. And I’m really attracted to the polar opposites […]
Fran O’Neill: Studio Visit
Anne Russinof photo blogs a visit to the studio of painter Fran O'Neill. In her artist statement O'Neill writes: "I am intrigued by how space can be open, compressed, complex, grand and intimate, and sometimes all within the same image. I look for moments in life that have a special or unexpected quality about them. […]
Lennart Anderson: Appreciation & Interview
An extensive post about painter Lennart Anderson, including an apppreciation by Susan Jane Walp and and interview with Anderson by Larry Groff and Kyle Staver. The post also includes several videos about the artist. Anderson remarks "When I was painting in the 50′s I was into what I call 'kissing color', things that were so […]
Paul Pagk @ Galerie Eric Dupont
Adrian Dannatt reviews Paul Pagk: Oeuvres Récentes at Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, on view through October 26, 2014. Dannat writes: "A painting by Pagk is almost an exercise in thinking aloud. They allow us to see the artist slowly make up his mind and then shift, like a giant ocean liner changing course, leaving the […]
Frank Auerbach on John Constable
The Guardian
Tim Adams talks to painter Frank Auerbach about the work of John Constable on the occasion of the exhibition Constable: The Making of a Master at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, on view through January 15, 2015. Auerbach tells Adams: "With the passage of time … Constable has meant more and more and more to me. […]
Scott Bennett: Interview
Valerie Brennan interviews painter Scott Bennett about his work. Bennett comments: "I like surprise, and I will often orchestrate things so the unexpected is invited. In the beginning, in particular, I often use a lot of water and very fluid paints, combined with thicker mixtures, so working horizontally is necessary. I've been pouring a lot. […]
Harriet Korman: Line or Edge, Line or Color
John Yau reviews Harriet Korman: Line or Edge, Line or Color at Lennon, Weinberg Inc., New York, on view through November 1, 2014. Yau writes that "Korman’s hints at whimsy and disruptions of symmetry and pattern instill a remarkable freshness in her work. For the past two decades, she has divided the surface into a […]
Barbara Takenaga @ Gregory Lind
David M. Roth reviews an exhibition of paintings by Barbara Takenaga at Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, on view through October 18, 2014. Roth writes: "Takenaga continues to explore the concept of infinity with an expanded vocabulary. It now includes gaseous clouds, swirling nebulae, dotted globes and vortex-like forms set atop thinly painted grounds. Where […]
Sharon Butler: Interview
Julia Schwartz interviews painter Sharon Butler about her work. Butler comments: "I ultimately learned was that my best subjects are simply, and sometimes unconsciously, pulled from my immediate surroundings. Materials and processes as well often arise from everyday life. For instance, when I was working on W. 39th Street in the garment district, I first […]
Richard Wilson: Transformation of Landscape
John Barrell reviews the exhibition Richard Wilson (1714 – 1782) and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, on view through October 26, 2014. Barrell writes: "Wilson was as exciting a painter of landscapes as his near contemporary Gainsborough, as influential on Constable as Gainsborough was, and the most […]
Fabian Marcaccio: Interview
Paul Laster interviews painter Fabian Marcaccio whose exhibition Paintant Stories is on view at Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro through October 8, 2014. Marcaccio comments that the "idea of an animated, organic constructivism is very important to me — all of my work is highly organic, but it’s also highly preconceived. How can the viewer […]
As Wide As A Door Is Open: Material Images
Sam Cornish reflects on As Wide As A Door Is Open: Material Images at Fold Gallery, London (through October 11), an exhibition of abstract painting he co-curated with Kim Savage. The show features works by Christopher McSherry, Dominic Beattie, EC, John Bunker, and Stephen Buckley. Cornish writes: "The exhibition mixes generations. There is not a single […]
To Leo, A Tribute @ Sideshow Gallery
Paul Corio reviews the recent exhibition To Leo, A Tribute from American Abstract Artists at Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Corio writes: "The big story in the New York art world for well over a year now is the broad reemergence of abstract painting… One of the many things that I like about abstraction’s current airing […]