“Malevich and The American Legacy,” an exhibition at Gagosian, traces a line from the geometric work of post-war American artists (all male except for Agnes Martin) back to Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematist paintings, but the connection constructed between the Americans and Malevich often seems overly reliant on visual tropes rather than […]

Tisch Abelow, Untitled (very tizdayle), 2009, gouache on paper, 68 x 82″ (Note: Images are from the artists’ websites and may not be in the show.)  Martin Bromirski Saira McLaren, “blue mountains,” watercolour on canvas, 48 x 36, 2010  Sheldon Sean Moyer, Untitled (alphapbet #1), 2010, acrylic on panel, 24″ […]

 Jimbo Blachly, “Pyre,” 2009, oil on canvas, 6� x 8.� Photography by Etienne Frossard Time Out New York selected “Lanquidity,” Jimbo Blachly’s show at Winkleman as the Critic’s Pick for painting this week. Although Blachly shows regularly with Winkleman as part of the Chadwick Family collaboration with Lytle Shaw, this […]

For the 2012 College Art Association Annual Conference in Los Angeles, I’m co-organizing ArtExchange, an open forum for sharing work that is free and open to the public. This year the exhibition will have it’s own web page with links to the artists’ websites. Participants, who must be members of […]

 Carol Padberg, “Ada Lovelace,” 2010, textiles and mixed media, 36″x36″ Hartford Art School professor Carol Padberg’s interactive quilts at the New Britain Museum  continue her exploration of encoded abstraction. In this rich new series, Padberg uses layered colored papers, scraps of fabric, a sewing machine and paint to construct each […]

Here are some recent 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. The “@” symbol indicates another Twitter user.  Christopher Joy, Untitled, 2011, oil on canvas on wood, 3 […]