Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Recently I was contacted by John Stoehr, the new editor at the New Haven Advocate, one of Connecticut’s alt weekies, to write about Connecticut arts. My first article, online this week, is about the Philip Pearlstein exhibition at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Art. Here’s an excerpt. “The Lyme […]
Tim Doud, “Materiality,” installation view at PriskaC. Juschka in 2007. Tim Doud, “None of My Clothes,”2006-07, oil on linen, 30 x 22” Anne Bentzel reports that Tim Doud plays with the notion of artifice. �Branding is artifice,� he says. �Wear something with a brand on it and you�re imposing […]
Arshile Gorky, “The Liver is the Cock’s Comb,” 1944. Courtesy of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Holland Cotter saw the Arshile Gorky show in Philadelphia and reports in the NY Times that eclecticism rules. “As you move from Gorky playing C�zanne, to Gorky doing Cubism, to Gorky the Surrealist. […]
I recently joined the Fine Art Adoption Network, one of Adam Simon’s ongoing experiments to develop alternative strategies for art distribution. Today I put these two pieces, color studies made during my Habitat For Artists residency, up for adoption: The goals of FAAN are to place artworks by committed artists […]
Elizabeth Gourlay, “Portolano 2.” Images from a studio visit with Elizabeth Gourlay in August, 2009. My quiet Connecticut neighbor, Elizabeth Gourlay, paints allegories. Her paintings speak of science as they document experiments with Cartesian planes and bar graphs. They speak of music as shapes represent sound and colors […]
Robing Mitchell, “RM 08 10,” 2008, gouache on paper, 24 x 18″ Robin Mitchell is having her second solo show at Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica this month. Obsessive, detailed and intimate, the richly colorful marks of Mitchell�s intricately layered paintings suggest plant forms or other microscopic shapes laid […]
Abby Leigh, “Focus 2,” 2009, 50 x 50″ dry pigment, oil, wax on canvas. Wandering around Chelsea yesterday, I stopped in to see Abby Leigh’s seductive paintings at Betty Cunningham. According to Leigh, the twelve 50 x 50″ paintings reference Cezanne�s description of what the experience of looking at a […]
Through November 8, artists Daniel Lichtman and David Baumflek will host The Institute for Aesthetic Research (IAR) – a program of public events, talks and discussions focused on Art, Economics and Institutional Critique- at Exit Art on Wednesdays, 6-8pm. Tonight they will discuss the IAR’s mission, and introduce Brooklyn artist […]
Denis Dutton, a professor of the philosophy of art at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the author of The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution, argues in a NYTimes op-ed that conceptual art, situated in the intellectual zeitgeist, will never be able to transcend time the […]
The Art Newspaper interview with Robert Storr has been circulating online for the past few days. In case you haven’t already seen it posted elsewhere, here’s an excerpt. TAN: The topic of the Frieze panel is �Have Art and Theory Drifted Apart?� What are your thoughts? Robert Storr: I�m not […]
