Joe Goode: Flat Screen Nature
Jonathan Griffin reviews the exhibition Joe Goode: Flat Screen Nature at Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, on view through August 29, 2014. Griffin writes: "Most of these paintings are only cursorily representational: they typically consist of one horizontal four-by-eight foot panel, painted dark blue, beneath another horizontal panel painted a lighter blue. The seam where the […]
Jane Culp: Suspect Terrain
John Goodrich reviews the exhibition Jane Culp: Suspect Terrain at John Davis Gallery, Hudson, New York, on view through August 10, 2014. Goodrich writes: "Picturesque scenes can be the hardest to paint, but Culp’s canvases catch the spectacle of these desert scenes without a trace of sentimentality. Working brusquely, with strokes that vary from thickly […]
Bruce Gagnier @ John Davis Gallery
John Goodrich reviews an exhibition of paintings by Bruce Gagnier at John Davis Gallery, Hudson, New York, on view through August 10, 2014. Goodrich writes: "Built up from many feathered layers of paint — dates reveal that all have been reworked over a period of years, some more than a decade — the figures pulse […]
New Image Painters v. Zombie Formalists
Sharon Butler blogs about two exhibitions – Don't Look Now at Zach Feuer in New York (closed) and New Image Painting at Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago (August 23 – October 4, 2014). Butler writes that both shows "[suggest] that a renewed interest in traditional genres–portrait, still life, landscape–is thriving within the painting community… That galleries […]
Evan Nesbit @ Roberts & Tilton
Calvin Phelps reviews the recent exhibition Evan Nesbit: “/‘kaıˑæzəm/“ at Roberts & Tilton, Culver City. Phelps writes that Nesbit "paints on tightly stretched burlap; more precisely, he paints through burlap. He begins with the back of a painting and presses brightly hued acrylic through its coarse weave. These canvases are taut, tense and meticulously executed… […]
Catherine Murphy: Interview
Jennifer Samet interviews painter Catherine Murphy about her work and career. Murphy comments: "I used to just say all representational painting is narrative. But I think it is all narrative, and I think form can be subject… I … considered how I could make these two things— form and subject—mutually inclusive, not exclusive. How do […]
Frank Stella @ Leslie Feely Gallery
Michael Klein reviews the recent exhibition Frank Stella: Works from 1971 to 1987 at Leslie Feely Gallery, New York. Klein writes "What I … appreciate and admire is his restlessness and almost relentless need for invention and exploration. He addresses painting as a proposition. In that proposition exist many solutions and permutations and the possibilities […]
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Apocalypse
Anja Foerschner blogs about Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Apocalypse drawings which will be on view in the exhibition World War I: War of Images, Images of War in the Getty Research Institute Galleries from November 18, 2014 – April 19, 2015. Foerschner writes: "The story of Revelation, as the Apocalypse is described in the bible, became […]
Summer Abstraction in NYC
Tamar Zinn blogs about several summer shows in New York featuring abstract painting including: Eccentric Abstraction, curated by Bill Weiss, at Frosch & Portmann featuring work by David Hayward, Leslie Wayne, Mamie Holst, Richard Allen Morris and Bill Weiss (through August 3); Starting Out: 9 Abstract Painters 1958-1971 at Tibor de Nagy, featuring works by […]
Mimi Gross: Studio Visit
Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy visit the studio of artist Mimi Gross. Gross shows her expansive range of work including paintings, drawings, and "2 1/2 d" constructions of subjects including figures, portraits, and landscapes. Comments on her relief work, Gross notes that " it's still 2d but it's 2 1/2 – not 3d at all.. […]
Mike Olin: Studio Visit
Brian Edmonds photo blogs a visit the to studio of painter Mike Olin. In his artist statement Olin writes: "I believe the best you can do as an artist is to be yourself. Nothing is as original as the individual and your self is the most you can offer. We have our own sets of […]
Dominic Beattie
Sam Cornish considers the work of Dominic Beattie. Cornish writes: "The most pleasing quality of Beattie’s art is its physicality, when he achieves a solid, tactile image, with figure and ground fused together. Generally he will build up layers before cutting through them and rearranging these parts, quickly arriving at combinations be could not have […]
Philip Taaffe on Matisse
Philip Taaffe considers the work of Henri Matisse on the occasion of the exhibition Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs at Tate Modern, London, on view through September 7, 2014. Taaffe writes: "From the standpoint of my own approach to things, what I have always most appreciated about his cut-outs is the absolute mobility of their freely formed […]
David Shapiro Remembered
Douglas Florian remembers painter David Shapiro (1944 -2014). Florian writes: "Shapiro sometimes referred to 'allostasis' – stability through change – as a goal of his paintings and prints, with seemingly opposite or disparate forces uniting as one. I remember David relating to me how often a brushstroke on the canvas would coincide with the arc […]
Helen Miranda Wilson
Joanne Mattera photo blogs images from the recent exhibition Helen Miranda Wilson: Wavy, Wiggly Ones at Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown. In 2013 review of Wilson's work, Edward M. Gomez wrote that "a formalist's heightened sense of awareness and a perfectionist's attention to detail come together in Helen Miranda Wilson's superbly crafted oil paintings on small […]
Goya & the Altamira Family @ The Met
John Haber blogs about the exhibition Goya and the Altamira Family at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on view through August 3, 2014. Haber writes that the show "brings together the five paintings of the Altamira family… The Met has borrowed the oldest son from a private collection, the middle son from the […]
Ilse D’Hollander @ David Zwirner
Caleb De Jong blogs about the work of Ilse D’Hollander, on view in the exhibition Paintings on Paper at David Zwirner Gallery, New York, on view through August 15, 2014. De Jong writes: "Given that her painting career was less than a decade long [D'Hollander's] body of paintings are more intimations of what was to […]
Cézanne at the Barnes
Charles Kessler blogs about the exhibition The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, on view through September 22, 2014. Kessler writes: "Except for Cézanne's early dark, heavily impasto paintings, I don’t see his work as solid, heavy and immobile, the way they're usually described. Just the […]
El Greco & Modern Painting
Julius Purcell reviews the exhibition El Greco and Modern Painting at the Museo del Prado Museum, Madrid, on view through October 5, 2014. Purcell notes that "there is a wide array of work on display by Manet, Rivera, Bacon, and Pollock among many others. The rediscovery of El Greco in the late 1800s was prompted […]
Family Style
Part 1 of a 4 part photo blog by Anne Russinof featuring works from the exhibition Family Style, curated by Julie Torres, at (Formerly) Pocket Utopia, New York, thorough August 24, 2014. Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. The show "is a collective, collaborative artist-driven project fostering community and camaraderie" and features works by Ky Anderson, […]