Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Today is my last day of the residency, and Pocket Utopia’s last day at 1037 Flushing Avenue, too. When Austin Thomas opened the space in 2007 as part of her social-space-creating art practice, her commitment to the project was for a two-year period, and now the time is up. As […]
Ed Winkleman, signing books last night in Chelsea. Anyone who reads the art blogs knows that Edward Winkleman recently wrote a book, published by the Allworth Press, called How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery. Yesterday I briefly stopped by the booksigning at Ed’s gallery and chatted with […]
Sadko Hadzihasanovic, Untitled, 2009, oil and pencil on masonite. Through this weekend Paul Petro presents sardonic work by Sadko Hadzihasanovic, a talented painter I met several years ago at the Blue Mountain Center artists’ and writers’ residency in the Adirondacks. Arriving in Toronto from Sarajevo in 1993, Sadko, who has […]
Here are some items cut and pasted from the Two Coats Twitter feed. For readers unfamiliar with Twitter, “RT” indicates the item has been repeated, or “retweeted,” from someone else’s Twitter feed. Last chance: Arrangements to Ward off Accidents (at Priska C. Juschka) http://bit.ly/12m2sN What’s on your studio wall? http://bit.ly/dTbkE […]
Ballpoint pen, marker/paper, 7.75 x 5.75 in (19.7 x 14.6 cm) In Art on Paper, Lyle Rexer examines Zdenek Kosek‘s ballpoint pen drawings which were recently on view at Calvin Morris. “Born in what was then Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) in 1949, Kosek worked as a typographer and drew […]
In her second installment of “Willa’s Commencement,” Two Coats intern Willa K�erner moves from New York to San Francisco where she looks for a job and considers how to make art on a shoestring. Reinvention and Relocation: The Great Post-Grad Challengeby Willa K�erner The components that contribute to the making […]
Loren Munk, “Greater Williamsburg” (2005-08) oil on linen, 48 x 60 inches Loren Munk, “The Bowery Small,” 2006-07, oil on linen, 36 x 24 inches. This afternoon I stopped by Loren Munk’s studio for a visit. Well known for his James Kalm Report videos, Loren has been working on some […]
Adam Simon, Breach, 2009, 5 � 7 inches, acrylic on mylar, Edition of Ten. Courtesy of PU Press. This Thursday, July 16, 6-9 pm, stop by “Business Edition,” a one-night exhibition of artist-produced editions and prints, and a selection from the recently inaugurated Kris Graves Projects – Pocket Utopia Flatfile […]
In late June on Art21, I wrote about the upcoming art reality show that Sarah Jessica Parker and Magical Elves are producing for Bravo, and, as if by magic, casting was announced the following week. I’m sure the usual suspects will apply, but I’m urging older artists, particularly mothers, to […]
I wrote another guest post for Art21 last week about Jack Tworkov’s new collection of writing. I’m just getting around to posting it on Two Coats. Sorry for the delay. Here’s an excerpt. “Owing to its timeless insights about artmaking and life, art teachers traditionally assign Ashcan School painter Robert […]
