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Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Contributed by Sharon Butler / To understand Elisabeth Condon’s paintings, it seems important to know that she grew up in California in a highly decorated house where she spent hours staring at the wild patterns of the fabrics and wallpapers. The experience certainly informs her exuberant paintings, in which pattern, flower, landscape all co-exist, as she says in her artist statement, in living, breathing presence.
Restricted to her studio during lockdown and cut off from large spaces in which to create site-specific work, Lisa Hoke felt the need to fashion pieces that were more portable and more presumptively permanent. What resulted is a scintillating revelation.
James Panero and me discussing social networking media face-to-face over pizza and beer at an exhibition at STOREFRONT in Bushwick. Photo courtesy Jason Andrew. In […]
The 2012 incarnation of the Whitney Biennial features (in addition to a huge slate of film and video screenings in a side room and performance on […]
�Painting is very private and personal….There�s an emotional content, but I�m more involved in the light and color and drawing of a painting. I don�t […]
Since the early days of Color Field painting, working on unprimed canvas or linen has given the impression of a certain unfinished immediacy–more like the […]
After seeing the exhibition at Gagosian, I’ve become a huge Helen Frankenthaler fan. Curated by John Elderfield, Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture […]
Blogging at the NYTimes last week, Princeton French prof Christy Wampole, assailing the hipster mentality, suggested that our culture needs to move beyond irony. Moving […]
Angelo Vasta: Comfort in darkness 
Amorelle Jacox’s spiritual science
NYC Selected Gallery Guide, June 2026
Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide, June 2026
Sharon’s Substack / June 1, 2026
David Humphrey: The hiker
Zombie Formalism vs. Paul Brown’s abundant abstraction
David Gilbert’s fugitive miracles
Jessica Frances Grégoire Lancaster: Loss and memory
Plagens: Ralph Meeker, or why I like James Brooks as much as de Kooning
Emma Webster: Peculiar but pleasant
Daniel Wiener’s soft machines
NYC Selected Gallery Guide, June 2026
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In June, in the wake of an exhausting month of fairs, NYC galleries are again presenting a full slate of exhibitions. A...
How the term “zombie formalism” killed the next generation
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In 2014, a single phrase reshaped the trajectory of contemporary abstract painting. When the late Walter Robinson – pai...
April Gornik’s unsettled landscapes
Contributed by Rebecca Allan / In “Liminal States,” Miles McEnery Gallery presented recent paintings by April Gornik, juxtaposing five of her familiar...
AAA at 90: Keep on looking
Contributed by Leslie Roberts / The exhibition “Abstract by Definition” at Art Cake celebrates the 90th anniversary of the American Abstract Artists (...
American Abstract Artists in the 1930s
Contributed by Jacob Cartwright / In 1957, Clement Greenberg penned the essay “The Late Thirties in New York,” reflecting on years that were formative...
Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide, June 2026
Contributed by Karlyn Benson / This month I am looking forward to the opening of Putting it Together: Transforming Collage at 68 Prince Street Gallery...
