Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
�When you�re painting,� architect Michael Graves said, �you start with the sweep of the landscape, but then as you start to recompose it and fill it in, you often find yourself painted into a corner. The escape from the corner � that�s the best part of it, the most exciting […]
Dan Bayles, “(Site Photo 5) Khan Bani Saad Correctional Facility,” 2009, mixed media on canvas, 18 x 24″ Dan Bayles, “(Site Photo 2) Khan Bani Saad Correctional Facility,” 2009, mixed media on canvas, 30 x 40″ Dan Bayles, “(Site Photo 25) Khan Bani Saad Correctional Facility,” 2009, mixed media […]
Karen Schifano, “New House,” 2008, oil on canvas, 20 x 30″ Karen Schifano, “Gangplank,” 2009, oil on canvas, 84 x 40″ Twice in the past few weeks I’ve picked Karen Schifano‘s paintings out of large group shows. Primarily I’m drawn to the metaphorical possibilities presented by linear perspective, but Schifano’s […]
Installation view: Cliff Hengst, wall drawing (in progress), acrylic paint on wall. Installation view: Timothy Buckwalter, Sharon Butler, John Zurier, Mia Brown. Installation view: Elaine Bradford, Elaine Bradford, Danny Thach. Installation view: John Zurier, Timothy Buckwalter, Timothy Buckwalter, Sharon Butler, Willie Harris. Installation view: John Zurier, Chris Ashley, Sharon Butler, Jeremy […]
At Sideshow in Brooklyn last week, I saw one of painter/critic Stephen Maine’s small, intensely-colored smoke pictures. “This series is new,” Maine says. “It is called Rauchbilden, or, ‘Smoke pictures,’ and addresses the dubious nature of image-making at the present moment. Touchstones are Jean Dubuffet, Piero Manzoni, and Yves Klein. […]
Piotr Uklanski, Untitled (Atomic Ovum), 2010, fiber-active dye on oxidized cotton textile stretched over cotton canvas, 88 7/8 x 93 3/4″ Piotr Uklanski,”Jupiter Glow,” 2010, fiber-active dye on oxidized cotton textile stretched over cotton canvas, 61 3/8 x 75″ Installation view. Images courtesy of Gagosian. Photography by Robert McKeever. Piotr […]
Check out the James Kalm Report from Deborah Brown’s show at Lesley Heller. “For the last five years Deborah Brown has painted images of her Bushwick neighborhood. During that time she has also been one of the area’s most staunch supporters. But it wasn’t until she opened STOREFRONT Gallery last […]
Joe Bradley, installation views at Canada. Reading the statement for Joe Bradley’s exhibition at Canada (which runs concurrently with the Ab Ex-y paintings on view at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise that I wrote about yesterday), and looking at the goofy silhouetted images, I wondered if this was a script from Saturday […]
Joe Bradley, installation views at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise. Joe Bradley, “Pigpen (#2),” 2010, oil on canvas, 97 x 72″ Joe Bradley, “Mouth and Foot (Ichthus),” 2010, oil on canvas, 78 1/4 x 100″ I like the look of Joe Bradley’s new paintings at Gavin Brown and the hallucinatory conflation of […]
Sam Gilliam, “Printing on the World 3,” 2010, oil based monotype,acrylic paint, powdered pigment, 30 x 22� Ren�e Stout, “Rusted Sign,”2010, oil based monotype with mixed media, 30 x 22� Tom Green, “Charred I,” 2010, acrylic on oil based, monotype, 30 x 22� Installation view. “In Unison: 20 Washington, DC […]
