Sharon Horvath on Badal Mahal of Bundi Palace
Sharon Horvath writes about the painted ceiling of Badal Mahal in Bundi Palace. Horvath's work will be on view at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York from October 09, 2014 – November 8, 2014. Horvath writes: "I am under an umbrella of sensual geometry, where the round moon marries the rectangle of the room: concentric […]
John Altoon @ LACMA
Peter Frank considers the work of artist John Altoon whose work is on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) through September 14, 2014. Frank writes: "Altoon was never a Pop artist per se; his Abstract Expressionist aesthetic, and ethos, kept him raw. He was close with Billy Al Bengston and Ed […]
Brian Wood: Studio Visit
Paul Behnke visits the studio of painter Brian Wood whose work will be on view in the three person show Spin Zero at Novella Gallery, New York, September 11 – October 5, 2014. The show will also feature works by Max Razdow and John Newman. Behnke writes: "Wood's work gives phantasmagorical form to experience and […]
Supports / Surfaces: Theory & Matter
Raphael Rubinstein considers a resurgence of interest in the Supports/Surfaces movement in the context of two recent exhibitions: Supports/Surfaces at CANADA Gallery, New York and Supports/Surfaces is Alive and Well at Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles. Rubinstein writes that "these shows have been very well received. That fact raises a question: Why now? Why is […]
Lucio Fontana: Retrospective
Tom McGlynn reviews the recent exhibition Lucio Fontana: Rétrospective at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris. McGlynn writes: "There is a visionary quality to Fontana’s work that tends to actively resist interpretation. It is as if his early itinerant experiences begat a hermetic sensibility about the constancy of an exterior existence. Despite the […]
Joanne Greenbaum: In Conversation
Ashley Garrett interviews painter Joanne Greenbaum. Greenbaum comments: "When I start a work I make a point of starting from a totally empty slate where I don’t have any preconceived idea of what’s going to happen. Even if something is just a big disaster—that gets me all excited. Because then it’s just like, 'oh okay, […]
Gary Lang @ ACE Gallery
Peter Frank reviews a recent exhibition of works by Gary Lang at ACE Gallery, Beverly Hills. Frank writes: "The concentric circle, or target, has been one of the predominant motifs in American abstract painting for the last half-century or more, and, as a result, to wring unexpected changes from it has become increasingly difficult. Gary […]
Claudia Carr: Interview
Susie Pentelow interviews painter Claudia Carr about her work. Carr's exhibition The butterfly counts not months but moments will be on view at Jessica Carlisle, London from September 16 – 21, 2014. Carr comments: "I find those three lumbering genre terms… ‘portrait’, ‘still life’ and ‘landscape’ interesting but also enjoy watching images slip fluidly and […]
Immoveable Feasts of French Modernism
John Seed reviews Jed Perl's recently re-issued book Paris Without End: On French Art Since World War I (Arcade Publishing) and interviews the author. The book includes essays on Matisse, Derain, Dufy, Léger, Picasso, Braque, Giacometti, Hélion, and Balthus. Seed writes: "Conceived as a kind of 'love letter,' this billet-doux between two covers was addressed […]
EC: Interview
Sam Cornish interviews painter EC whose work will be included in the group exhibition As Wide As A Door Is Open: Material Images (curated by Sam Cornish) at Fold Gallery, London from September 6 – October 11, 2014. EC comments: "For me the gestural painting, automatic and/or asemic writing and collage have come about from a […]
Northwest Modernism: Mythic & the Mystical
Joe Donahue reviews Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: The Mythic and the Mystical at the Seattle Art Museum, on view through September 7, 2014. Donahue writes: "Back in the 1920s and ’30s, the artists of what would be called the Pacific Northwest School had begun teasing out the area’s interrelation of landscape, culture, and belief. […]
Richard Jacobs: In the Moment
Carl Belz writes about the work of Richard Jacobs on the occasion of Jacobs' exhibtion Soul Delay at Jack Leary Gallery, New York, on view from September 12 – October 11, 2014. (Full catalog here) Belz writes that Jacobs' paintings "are visibly intelligent and informed, they know the past whence they came, along with the […]
Will Hutnick: Interview
Kelly Worman interviews painter Will Hutnick. Hutnick comments: "I try to keep a distance while I work at first, so that shapes and colors can happen naturally… Cage … talked about 'facilitating a work to occur', something that’s always stuck with me, that I’m not creating the work as much as I am discovering it; […]
Roland Reiss: Studio Visit
Lita Barrie visits the studio of artist Roland Reiss whose work will be on view at Begovich Gallery, California State University, Fullerton (November 8 – December 11, 2014) and Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles (December 2014). Barrie writes: "In the Floral Paintings, Reiss uses the flowers as a scaffold to create in-between spaces where surprising […]
Ashley Garrett: Studio Visit
Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy visit the studio of painter Ashley Garrett. Garrett discusses her work and her interest the ability of painting to uncover and activate the interrelationship of objects and memories. She comments: "Maybe painting is more alive than real life … painting has the possibilities of everything that anybody could ever imagine and […]
Caroline McNairn: Dreaming of Heroic Days
Colin Herd reviews Caroline McNairn: Dreaming of Heroic Days at Summerhall, Edinburgh, on view through September 26, 2014. Herd writes: "Dramatically combining elements of abstraction, figuration, textuality and landscape (or more precisely cityscape), McNairn’s canvases are exquisite fusions. Her art is radical because it is energized and enervated by the combination of disparate elements. The […]
Jenny Dubnau: Interview
Jennifer Samet interviews painter Jenny Dubnau about her work. Dubnau comments that "there is so much editing when it comes to making any realist painting. The challenge lies in making a kind of poetry about the way things really are without straying too far. I don’t change the color or the details too radically; I […]
Robin Williams on Sylvia Sleigh
Painter Robin Williams reflects on Sylvia Sleigh's Annunciation: Paul Rosano (1975). Williams notes: "I was first struck by [Sleigh's] somewhat naive approach to painting. She fixated on details, roving over a scene telescopically, describing textiles, hair follicles, or flower peddles with equal intensity. Surfaces seemed fetishized or eroticized, but playfully so. Perspectives were sometimes skewed or slightly […]
Anne Smart: Studio Visit
Anthony Smart, Emyr Williams, Robin Greenwood, Sarah Greenwood, Alexandra Harley, Patrick Jones, Desmond Brett, Helga Joergens-Lendrum, David Lendrum, Sam Cornish, Mark Skilton, Hilde Skilton, and John Pollard participate in a group studio visit with painter Anne Smart. Sam Cornish: I think Feather Ledded and Broiderie Landings both seem to have quite a natural, I don’t […]
Carl Ostendarp: Depth in Flatness
Susan Silas reviews Carl Ostendarp: BLANKS at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, on view through September 6, 2014. Silas writes: "In the show at Elizabeth Dee, we are presented with paintings that are fields of color. A salmony pink in the first room, a glorious yellow and a saturated orange in the second. And on […]