As promised in part one earlier this week, Julie Torres has sent her second report from Hudson‘s thriving gallery scene. Julie was a longtime – and much-loved! – Brooklyn resident who recently moved upstate, and while we miss having her nearby, we’re itching to visit her new neighborhood for ourselves. Looking at the photo round-up Julie sent, Hudson looks a bit like a painting oasis –judge for yourselves.
“Erik Schoonebeek: Tender Trap” at Jeff Bailey Gallery. Erik Schoonebeek, Too Much for Title, 2016, gouache and acrylic on book cover, 5 x 7 inches.Erik Schoonebeek, Scene From a Play, 2016, acrylic on found paper, 9.5 x 12.25 inches.Erik Schoonebeek, Hidden Smile, 2016, gouache and acrylic on book cover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches.Erik Schoonebeek, Blume, 2016, gouche on book cover, 6.25 x 7.75 inches.Erik Schoonebeek, Almost Touching, 2016, gouache and acrylic on book cover, 5.5 x 9 inches.Erik Schoonebeek, Young Leen, 2016, gouache and acrylic on book cover, 12.25 x 16.75 inches.Also at Jeff Bailey: Christian Maychack. Compound Flat #50, 2016, epoxy clay, pigment, and wood, 16.5 x 12 x 1.5 inches.Christian Maychack, installation view.Christian Maychack, Compound Flat #56, 2016, epoxy clay, pigment, and wood, 10.75 x 14.5 x 13.5 inches.Christian Maychack, Compound Flat #52, 2016, epoxy clay, pigment, and wood, 16.25 x 15 x 1.5 inches.Christian Maychack, Compound Flat #54, 2016, epoxy clay, pigment, wire, mesh, and wood, 36.5 x 24 x 3.25 inches.Christian Maychack, Compound Flat #53, 2016, epoxy clay, pigment, and wood, 58 x 20 x 1.75 inches.“Blue Jean Baby” is the inaugural exhibition at Kristen Dodge’s new space, called the September Gallery. Readers may recall that Dodge used to have a gallery in the storefront that Betty Cuningham now calls home on the Lower East Side. Image above: Odessa Straub.Jennifer Paige Cohen, Dusty Blue, 2015, jeans, plaster, lime plaster, pencil, 10 x 13 x 6 inches.Brie Ruais, Unzipped Line and Circle (Raw Color), 400lbs, 2015, glazed ceramic, jeans, hardware, in three parts, 113 x 87 x 4 inches, 49 x 43 x 3 inches, 75 x 16 x 5 inches.In the Genes, 2014, 9 x 7 x 1.5 inches.Davis, Cherubini, Downstairs, 2007, pine, plywood, terra-cotta, glaze, tape, denim, 14 x 14 x 17 inches.“Blue Jean Baby” installation view, at September Gallery.Kim Gordon, Denim Mini, from the Boyfriend Experience series, 2013, archival pigment print (Edition of 50 + curated prints by 10 artists), framed: 30 x 20 inches.Sara Greenberger Rafferty
NOTE: September Gallery is also hosting Basilica SoundScape this weekend, where sculptor Cal Lane will exhibit alongside sex-psyche Illustrator Heather Benjamin and set designer Lisa Laratta.
Jack Walls. installation view of “Abstraction” group show at Carrie Haddid Gallery.Jack Walls, Mozambique, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 40 X 40 inches.Robert Morgan, Lissajous 1, 2015, acrylic and metalic paint on canvas, 16 x 20 inches.Robert C. Morgan, Lissajous 17, 2015, acrylic and metalic paint on canvas, 20 x 16 inches.
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide: September 2021Welcome 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 ...
Selected paintings from SPRING/BREAK NYC 2021Contributed 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 ...
The new theatrical space of Amy LincolnContributed 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 ...
Did I do that? Thirty Years of Adjunct TeachingThis 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 ...
Caroline Kent: A set of symbolsContributed by Jonathan Goodman / Caroline Kent, a painter based in Chicago, is having her first show at Casey Kaplan. She makes schematic abstract paintings, which have aspects of doubled ...
Art and TV: Professor T, an extraordinary burst of mindContributed 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 UglyContributed 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 ...
Thinking beyond New York CityDuring 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 ...
Thank you for the introduction to some interesting work(that I didn’t know already). Particularly responded to Christian Maychack’s work. Intriguing.