Abstraction
Jack Whitten: Interview
The Paris Review Daily
Yevgeniya Traps interviews painter Jack Whitten whose work is on view at Hauser & Wirth, New York through April 8, 2017. Whitten remarks: “I’m working with these units of paint, which I call tesserae—originally the word for ancient mosaics… The tesserae, in my mind, is the unit, it’s the thing that makes them. I can […]
Brenda Goodman: Interview
Magic Praxis
Clarity Haynes and Kate Hawes talk to painter Brenda Goodman whose work will be on view at Jeff Bailey Gallery (Booth 4.07) at NADA Art Fair, New York from March 2 – 5, 2017. Goodman comments: “I did [abstract paintings] for ten years and I felt like ‘I need more than this’ and that’s when […]
Tamara Gonzales: Interview
Brooklyn Rail
Raymond Foye and Peter Lamborn Wilson interview painter Tamara Gonzales whose work was recently on view at at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York. Gonzales comments: “Art school was so much fun, it seemed like a vacation from my life—a pleasure… But the idea that then you come out and you’re making art about the […]
Elliott Green: The Painter of Continuous Motion
New York Review of Books
Jana Prikryl writes about the paintings of Elliott Green which are on view at Pierogi Gallery, New York, through March 26, 2017. Prikryl begins: “Elliott Green’s paintings appear to be in continuous motion, the way animals, plants, and ultimately rocks and mountains are in continuous motion, even when our human vision fails to apprehend it. […]
Beverly Fishman: The Drug of Abstraction
Art in America
Jason Stopa interviews painter Beverly Fishman on the occasion of her show DOSE, curated by Nick Cave, at the CUE Art Foundation, New York, on view through April 5, 2017. Fishman comments: “I believe that it’s important that the viewer know my content. That’s why I think my titles are significant, because they help to […]
Craig Stockwell: Interview
Hyperallergic
Jennifer Samet interviews painter Craig Stockwell whose work is included in the 2016 deCordova New England Biennial, at the de Cordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, on view through March 26, 2017. Stockwell remarks: “In our contemporary political moment, there is a conversation about control and freedom happening — on both sides. The conversation between […]
Ron Gorchov @ Cheim & Read
James Kalm Rough Cut
James Kalm visits an exhibition of new works by Ron Gorchov at Cheim & Read, New York, on view through March 25, 2017. Kalm notes: “Known for his unique ‘saddle-shaped’ canvases, Gorchov is also appreciated for his light touch and elegant color sense. There’s a natural seductiveness to the shaped supports, and the manifest process […]
Trudy Benson: Interview
Art F City
Irena Jurek interviews painter Trudy Benson whose work will be on view at Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva (March 23 – May 11) and Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris (March 24 – May 13). Benson comments: “my work in the past had been so invested in digital media as a reference. It was an interesting enough idea for […]
Steve DiBenedetto @ Cherry and Martin
Hyperallergic
Daniel Gerwin reviews Steve DiBenedetto: Novelty Mapping Picnic at Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, on view through March 4, 2017. Gerwin writes: “‘Influx’ (2016) is my favorite piece — a little carnival of a painting whose stunning relationships of hot pinks, acrid greens, and chilly yellows has such a mystifying surface that even after DiBenedetto […]
Emma Coulter: Interview
Visual Discrepancies
Brent Hallard interviews artist Emma Coulter. Coulter notes that “opticality and the illusion of form, these things really just happen through the positioning of two-dimensional paint. I guess this is one of the things I’m wanting to work with – the idea of the architectural space being as important as the art in terms of […]
Mimi Lauter: Interiors
LA Times
Leah Ollman reviews Mimi Lauter: Interiors at Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles, on view through March 4, 2017. Ollman writes: “Mimi Lauter’s enthralling drawings have a visual grammar all their own. Their sense of scale is elusive and independent of their physical size. They feel immersive, whether small as a notebook page or large enough to […]
Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975
Brooklyn Rail
David Rhodes reviews Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975 at Gagosian Gallery, New York, on view through February 25, 2017. “In the context of painting in the ’70s, which sought to proscribe illusionism and favor complete material literalism, the paintings are pictures, as well as process. Not only do they record—actively conveying different configurations, speeds, and […]
Chuck Webster @ Betty Cuningham
Hyperallergic
John Yau reviews Chuck Webster: Look Around at Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, on view through February 18, 2017. Yau writes: “‘Liberty or Death’ is a breakthrough painting for Webster and, in that regard, a major step for this artist, whose work is always interesting. For one thing, he has opened up a vast space which […]
Stella Still Intriguing
Artillery
David DiMichele reviews Frank Stella: A Retrospective at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, on view through February 26, 2017. DiMichele notes: “The decorative quality in many of Stella’s paintings, particularly the protractor series from the late 1960s, has led many writers to compare him to Matisse, the master of color, but I see him […]
Gutai & the Unraveling of Linear Modernism
Squarecylinder
John Held, Jr. considers Japanese Gutai and its influences and impact in light of three San Francisco exhibitions: Kazuo Shiraga & Kour Pour: Earthquakes And the Mid Winter Burning Sun at Ever Gold Projects (through March 18), Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, et al.:Beyond Matter at Gagosian San Franciso (through March 18), and Japanese […]
Emily Gherard: Making Presence Known
Art Ltd
Amanda Manitach reviews the recent exhibition Emily Gherard: Making Presence Known at Bridge Productions, Seattle. Manitach writes: “In [Gherard’s] most recent series … scale has diminished—dwarfed. Many of Gherard’s panels are smaller than the palm of a hand. Yet the bijou-sized pieces are encrusted with material that has a density as yet not experienced in […]
Christopher Le Brun: Interview
Brooklyn Rail
Barbara Rose interviews painter Christopher Le Brun. Le Brun comments: “Painting wants to be spatial. It has a compass in it that switches to north, and the north of painting is space… But painting is also—which is not said enough, at a high level—extremely difficult. Because you’re not trying to simplify the situation, you’re trying […]
The Subtle Madness of Larry Poons & Jean Dubuffet
Hyperallergic
Robert C. Morgan reviews Jean Dubuffet and Larry Poons: Material Topologies at Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, on view through February 18, 2017. Morgan writes: “We know that both [Dubuffet and Poons] are painters, but culturally, they appear to have been informed by different attributes regarding scale and color, line, and force of visual impact… […]
Katharina Grosse on Canvas
Two Coats of Paint
Sharon Butler reviews works by Katharina Grosse at Gagosian Gallery, New York, on view through March 11, 2017. Butler writes: “The strength of Grosse’s past work rested in the clever, audacious way she combined paint and physical structure. These new paintings on canvas, though ambitious and slick in terms of energy and scale, lack the […]
Tamara Gonzales @ Klaus von Nichtssagend
Hyperallergic
Hrag Vartanian reviews Tamara Gonzales: Ometeoli at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, on view through February 11, 2017. Vartanian writes: “Gonzales is known for incorporating visual culture that has traditionally been more associated with lived culture — lace, graffiti, embroidery, textiles — rather than the world of art galleries. … Her true subject matter […]