Award-winning NYC blogazine, primarily about painting
Friday, September 17, 2021
Contributed by Jason Andrew / Amy Lincoln’s soaring trajectory has locked in the natural world, the phenomena within it, and the epic world of myth. Ten new paintings now on view at Sperone Westwater embrace these pervasive elements while exploring a bold new theatrical space.
Contributed by Fay Sanders and Bob Szantyr / This year much of the work at Spring/Break is engaged with our tenuous grasp on truth, along with themes of Catholic iconography, shame and marginalization, Medieval craft, and speculative and mythological imagery that is readily framed as heretical in a puritanical, Western sense.
This excerpt is from a book Peter Dudek is writing about his years in academia, teaching art. Many of the conversations and stories came about in class, during faculty meetings, or over dinner & drinks with other artists who teach.
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / What a mess. And today was doomsday. Eliza Netsua couldn’t get back to sleep, so she dragged herself out of bed at five a.m. Her loft, long ago a sewing sweatshop renovated only insofar as the splintery floors had been sanded and the walls slapped with multiple coats of white paint, was already hot and stuffy. A full-on August heat wave in New York. The gallery was closed for the month and, moreover, it was Monday, a day even she, the assistant director, wouldn’t ordinarily be working….
Welcome to the Two Coats of Paint painting-centric guide to gallery exhibitions in New York City. There’s a lot to see this month. We’re in the thick of hurricane season, with Tropical Storms Kate and Larry currently brewing over the Atlantic, so let’s hope inclement weather doesn’t get in the way.
Imagine the most elaborate, fanciful and bizarre fairy-tale like sand castle possible. Ferdinand Cheval’s masterpiece, Le Palais Idéal, is teeming with, octopi, dragons, ostriches, flamingos, lions, elephants, deer, plants, gods, fairies, giants, and historical figures all interwoven with architectural forms whose references include Hindu, Buddhist, and Egyptian temples, Islamic mosques, and Swiss chalets.
Contributed by Paul D’Agostino / Not long ago, an acquaintance on social media posted an image of a recent painting in one of those temporary-story-style series of images, and I reacted favorably, at first with emoji-tive enthusiasm, to that particular painting. I then got an unexpected response pretty quick-like: “What do you see?”
During a quick tour of Vermont, I discovered Benjamin Ward’s new gallery Stella Quarta Decima, or SQD, on Main Street in Manchester. The gallery will feature artists, primarily from Vermont, who work outside the confines of the commercial art market.
“The Subject is The Line” at the Thompson Giroux Gallery in Chatham, New York, is a handsome, beautifully installed exhibition of the work of fourteen established artists.
Contributed by Jacob Patrick Brooks / As you walk into “Honoring the Dog-Legging Horizon” at Spencer Brownstone Gallery, something feels off. The sense is vague at first, but it becomes clearer as you alternate between hunching in close or backing up more than usual. The show is hung low, by about a foot, to encourage sitting down, and the work is well worth taking in fully.
Selected paintings from SPRING/BREAK NYC 2021
Contributed by Fay Sanders and Bob Szantyr / This year much of the work at Spring/Break is engaged with our tenuous grasp on truth, along with themes of Catholic ...
Did I do that? Thirty Years of Adjunct Teaching
This excerpt is from a book Peter Dudek is writing about his years in academia, teaching art. Many of the conversations and stories came about in class, during faculty meetings ...
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide: September 2021
Welcome to the Two Coats of Paint painting-centric guide to gallery exhibitions in New York City. There's a lot to see this month. We're in the thick of hurricane ...
The new theatrical space of Amy Lincoln
Contributed by Jason Andrew / Amy Lincoln’s soaring trajectory has locked in the natural world, the phenomena within it, and the epic world of myth. Ten new paintings now on ...
Art and TV: Professor T, an extraordinary burst of mind
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Boy did the otherwise on-the-mark Guardian television critic Lucy Mangan get it wrong. In her 2017 review of the Flemish detective series Professor T, ...
Fiction: The Real, the Fake, and the Ugly
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / What a mess. And today was doomsday. Eliza Netsua couldn’t get back to sleep, so she dragged herself out of bed at five a.m. Her ...
The upstate line
“The Subject is The Line” at the Thompson Giroux Gallery in Chatham, New York, is a handsome, beautifully installed exhibition of the work of fourteen established artists.
About an image, without an image: Reflections on looking at a painting
Contributed by Paul D’Agostino / Not long ago, an acquaintance on social media posted an image of a recent painting in one of those temporary-story-style series of images, and ...
Thinking beyond New York City
During a quick tour of Vermont, I discovered Benjamin Ward's new gallery Stella Quarta Decima, or SQD, on Main Street in Manchester. The gallery will feature artists, primarily from Vermont ...
History: Artist-run galleries in NYC in the 1950s and 1960s
At artist-run galleries, the conversation centers on art rather than commerce. Alternative spaces provide a place for unknown and under-recognized artists to mount exhibitions, for curators to organize their first thematic shows, and for established artists ...
New post link in profile / The new theatrical space of Amy Lincoln / Contributed by Jason Andrew / Amy Lincoln’s soaring trajectory has locked in the natural world, the phenomena within it, and the epic world of myth. Ten new paintings now on view at Sperone Westwater embrace these pervasive elements while exploring a bold new theatrical space….link in profile
#amylincoln #jasonandrew #contemporarypainting #landscapepainting #symbolistpainting #speronewestwater
Stopped by to see @marksheinkman new diptychs on the way home this evening. Too big to photograph properly! Go see them In the lobby gallery at 499 Park Avenue (at 59th Street) through December 2021. Note: Open during office hours, Monday-Friday, 8 AM – 6 PM
#largescalepainting #contemporarypainting #abstraction #marksheinkmanpainting #marksheinkman
Studio visit with my neighbor @deborahwassermanart today. Energy, landscape, symbolist imagery bursting out of this series of large ink-on-paper work from the past three years. Thanks for the invitation @deborahwassermanart, wonderful to see your work 🤓!
#contemporarypainting #queensartists #contemporarylandscape #deborahwasserman #mothernature #climatecrisis #workonpaper
New post, link in profile/ Selected paintings from SPRING/BREAK NYC 2021 / Contributed by Fay Sanders and Bob Szantyr / Just in time to herald fall, Spring/Break comes back to New York for its tenth edition. Under the overarching title “Hearsay: Heresy,” more than 100 curatorial exhibitions embody a cautious but jubilant return to this customarily high-energy and immersive fair….read more, link in profile
#springbreakartshow #contemporarypainting #bobszantyr #faysanders #rachelnelson #guyrichardssmits
Good to see @tlsolien, one of my IG faves, at @seasons_la (Los Angeles) during @futurefairs ! He brought a diptych that he started a few decades ago and recently completed, plus some charming smaller works inspired by hats and gloves. This guy knows how to handle PAINT 🙂
#futurefair #contemporarypainting #wisconcinartist #tlsolien #seasonsla
Ryan Browning presents playful paintings and woven pieces, made by carpet artisans in Pakistan from artwork he sends them. The carpet-like pieces feature an early-video-game aesthetic and seem magical, with rich color and sumptuous texture. Browning lives in Doha, Qatar, where he teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University. Swipe for a detail of one of them. In the @the_ada_gallery section of @futurefairs FYI, my grandmother’s name was Ada.
#futurefair #carpetdesign #contemorarypainting #adagallery #ryanbrowning