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, […]
Color as Structure
Joanne Mattera photo blogs a visit to the exhibition Color as Structure at McKenzie Fine Art, New York, on view through August 2, 2014. The show includes works by Paul Corio, Richard Garrison, Rob de Oude, Mel Bernstine, Jason Karolak, Maureen McQuillan, Holly Miller, Alain Biltereyst, Martha Clippinger, Richard Roth, Cordy Ryman, Deborah Zlotsky, Kate […]
Joan Mitchell: Cous-cous
Bruce McColl blogs about Joan Mitchell's painting Cous-cous (1961-62) in the collection of the Currier Museum of Art. McColl writes that Mitchell’s painting "is replete with a painterly syntax of every kind: sweeps of turpentine stained hues trace a dramatic scene that is horizontally inclined; in the middle-right region of the painting, staccato paint marks […]
John Bunker: Six Fugues
Andy Parkinson reviews the recent exhibition John Bunker: Six Fugues, curated by Sam Cornish, at Westminster Library. Parkinson observes that the fact that Bunker's works are, "made from, 'torn posters, shattered CDs, abandoned chicken-shop boxes,' combined with the painterliness of the gestural flourishes, even in collage there are plenty of those, all adds to their […]
Eva Struble: Produce
Lauren Buscemi reviews the recent exhibition Eva Struble: Produce at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Buscemi writes: "Tapping into the Pattern and Decoration movement—textiles taken from the regional origins of migrant farm workers are incorporated into Struble’s paintings merging aesthetic pleasure with socio-environmental content… With its fiery orange, pinks, and bright green, Lemondrop […]
John Mills: Signs of the Times
Jason Ramos blogs about the paintings of John Mills which were recently on view at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica. Ramos observes: "When taken at such a technically conceptual level, painting soon dovetails into an unpacking of language and perception in general, and it is quite genuinely and presently at this very abstract intersection that […]
Alan Davie: Phenomenon of Expanding Form
Alan Gouk considers the work of the late Alan Davie. Gouk writes that Davie's paintings "are not really abstract pictures (and neither is Gorky)… Just as abstractness is a relative condition, so many great paintings make the distinction between abstraction and representation irrelevant (Matisse’s The Moroccans being the supreme example). Davie’s pictures are, like it, […]
Michael Krebber: Systemic Relevance
Photoblog of images from the exhibition Michael Krebber: Systemic Relevance at Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, on view through July 22, 2014. In a previous interview Krebber remarked: "What I want to do may be a very normal desire: to go on stage, whatever or wherever the stage may be, and to make a joke that suits my tastes. […]
Lane Relyea on Painting Now
Jacob Wick interviews Lane Relyea, whose book Your Everyday Art World was published in 2013 by MIT Press. Relyea, who also authored the article D.I.Y. Abstraction, remarks on how he sees: "artists starting to operate… especially painters. Painters do blogs, they curate, they run an apartment gallery—painting is something that they get to when they […]
Larry Groff: In and Out of Sight
Painting Perceptions
On the occasion of his upcoming exhibition at Prince Street Gallery, New York ( July 29 – August 16), Larry Groff writes about his new paintings and his career as a painter. Groff notes: “To me great landscape painting is abstract painting that also has a structure and is intrinsically bound to certain visual restrictions. […]
Brenda Goodman: Interview
Goodman explores powerfully personal narratives animated by a visual language that moves that moves freely between abstraction and representation.
Addison Parks: Source Paintings
Martin Mugar blogs about the work of painter Addison Parks, on the occasion of Parks' exhibition Source Paintings at Prince Street Gallery, New York, on view through July 27, 2014. Mugar writes: "What intrigues me about your work is the evocation of the passage of time. Every painting seems to be a resolution of sorts […]
Amalia Piccinini & Stephen Maine
William Corwin reviews two recent exhibitions: Amalia Piccinini: Exile at Art 101 and Stephen Maine: Halftone Paintings at 490 Atlantic Gallery. Corwin begins: "Surface and the illusion of surface are the heart of the matter in the work of two abstract painters whose recent exhibitions in Brooklyn dangle the mystery of process and the indisputable […]
Robert Swain @ Santa Monica Museum
John Mroch reviews Robert Swain: Form of Color at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, on view through August 23, 2014. Mroch writes: "Lining the walls of the main gallery of the Santa Monica Museum of Art are five paintings — the smallest two being nine-by-nine foot squares, and the largest a rectangle sizing up […]
Albert Oehlen: New Paintings
E. Baker reviews the exhibition Albert Oehlen: New Paintings at Gagosian Beverley Hills, on view through July 18, 2014. Baker writes that the show "[showcases] the artist’s continued interests in both abstract painterly gesture and the intersections of modernity with the act of painting… In his new series of four-part paintings on aluminum panels, Oehlen […]
Regina Bogat: Earthly Divination
Tim Keane considers Threaded Piece 3, c.1973 by Regina Bogat, on view in the exhibition Regina Bogat: Works 1967-1977 at Zürcher Gallery, New York, on view through July 25, 2014. Keane writes: "In her delicate union of geometric formality and biomorphic energy, Bogat proves that bodily references and universal symbolism can coexist with purity of […]
In the Studio with Matisse
Juliette Rizzi & Flavia Frigeri interview Jacqueline Duhême who served for two years as an assistant to Henri Matisse. Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs are on view at Tate Modern through September 17, 2014. Speaking about Matisse's cut-outs, Duhême recalls: "I witnessed their birth. Matisse would draw in a sketchbook: birds, flowers, fruit… things that inspired him. […]
Joseph Santore on Vincent van Gogh
Joseph Santore blogs about the work of Vincent van Gogh. "The biggest surprise at Yale was discovering that Van Goghʼs The Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine was part of the permanent collection in the Yale Museum right across the street from the Art and Architecture building. I visited often but somehow could not get […]