We were recently surprised to learn that Bushwick artist Julie Torres has decamped from the Brooklyn neighborhood with which she’s long been associated. Now located in Hudson, NY, Torres has been settling into her new home by exploring its art scene. We asked her to send a report on the galleries in the neighborhood, and here are images of some juicy paintings that caught her eye.
Rodney Dickson at John Davis Gallery. Untitled #1, 2016, oil on board, 8 x 5 feet.Rodney Dickson, Untitled #13, 2016, oil on board, 18 x 18 inches.Rodney Dickson, Untitled #7, 2016, oil on board, 18 x 18 inches.Rodney Dickson, Untitled #9, 2016, oil on board, 18 x 18 inches.Rodney Dickson, Juliet, 2016, oil on board , 18 x 18 inches. From Dickson’s “White Paintings” series, in memory of his wife, Juliet.Also at John Davis:” JJ Manford, Wanderers and Wildflowers, New Paintings.” JJ Manford, Esoteric Plant Goddess, 2016, acrylic, wax pastel on polypropylene, 9 x 6 inches.Ausable River Magic, 2016, acrylic, wax pastel on polypropylene, 9 x 6 inches.JJ Manford, Moogles Fauna, 2016, acrylic, gouache and wax pastel on polypropylene, 25 x 20 inches.JJ Manford, Wanderer #1, 2016, acrylic, gouache, wax pastel on polypropylene, 9 x 6 inches.JJ Manford, A Peaceable Kingdom, 2016, 50 x 38 inches.JJ Manford, Bi-Manual Plant Goddess, 2016, acrylic, gouache and wax pastel on polypropylene, 25 x 20 inches.JJ Manford, Psychic Nomad, 2016, acrylic, gouache and wax pastel on canvas over panel, 30 x 24 inches.Ryan Russo at Gallery Gris.
Curated monthly by gallerist Steve Isoz, the Back Room at Galerie Gris presents a feast of engaging smaller work.
Galerie Gris: Alexander Oleksyn, Robert Cronin, Peter Fox, Joanne Freeman, Tom Moran, Joy Taylor.Galerie Gris: Doug Clow, Marina Adams, Winston Roeth, Robert Cronin, John Berry, Ian Meyers, Joy Taylor.Lizzie Scott at Galerie GrisAndrea BelagMarina AdamsLizzie ScottMarina AdamsMarina Adams, Jeramiah Arneson, Jenna Bauer, Arthur Elgort, Lisa Corinne Davis, Doug Clow, Freeman ButtsPeter FoxIan Meyers, David Row, Kylie Heidenheimer, Lizzie ScottDoug ClowJoanne Freeman, Joy Taylor, Tom Moran, Robert CroninMarina AdamsAlexander OleksynLisa Corinne Davis, new work on paper.
Thanks, Julie. We’ll miss you in Brooklyn, but we’re looking forward to more reports from upstate. Readers–stay tuned for Part 2 later this week.
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide: January 2022Contributed by Sharon Butler / If January feels dreary, cheer up. Take a look at this long, interesting list of exhibtions that are opening in NYC.
Michael Krebber: The poetry in painting?Contributed by Sharon Butler / Like Michael Krebber, I love beginnings and find meaning in irresoluteness. Lately, though, in my own work and that of other painters, I have come ...
Robert Janitz: Reverie over realityContributed by Sharon Butler / “Library of a Dream,” Robert Janitz’s elegantly installed exhibition, on view at Canada through January 21, is a knockout. Janitz spent years in intense meditation ...
Wayne Thiebaud and starting overContributed by Laurie Fendrich / The California painter Wayne Thiebaud died on Christmas Day. He was renowned, first and foremost, for his paintings of candies, cakes, and pies, which he ...
Jennifer Coates and the landscape’s afterglowContributed by James J. A. Mercer / Mythological characters and creatures from antiquity populate Jennifer Coates’s beguiling solo show “Lesser Gods of Lakewood, PA” at High Noon Gallery on the ...
Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Artist of EverythingContributed by Laurie Fendrich / Singling out individual works for praise in an exhibition of the size and range of MoMA’s “Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction” is almost beside the point ...
Douglas Degges: The aesthetic curiosities of childhoodContributed by Cody Tumblin / I sat down with Douglas Degges to talk about "Remembering Accardo Tackle," his recent solo show at St. Ambrose University’s Morrissey Gallery in Iowa ...
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, ...
Body Language at The Painting CenterContributed by Carol Diamond / Now on display at The Painting Center, the group exhibition titled “The Body in Question,” a phrase cheekily resonant of a coroner’s report, explores the ...
Sweet home pandemic at Frosch & CoContributed by Sharon Butler / In New York City, during the lockdown of 2020, my neighbors disappeared. Some left town, others stayed in their apartments for weeks on end. “Home ...
Nice reporting, Julie. Thanks.
marina adams kicks all kinds of ass.
Julie, so glad to see you landed in a great place! Am looking forward to more of your reports, some great galleries in Hudson. Best wishes to you!
Thank you for such extensive coverage, Julie! Wonderful that Hudson is home now. See you up there and best!!