“What makes a painting work or not work is something I don’t understand; it’s the mystical aspect of painting, which is part of its power.” –Jacqueline Humphries in the summer issue of ArtNews
Month: July 2011
Craig Taylor: Reviving pentimenti
Craig Taylor, “Amplifier Artifact,” 2010, oil on canvas, 72 x 54″ Less precious and more physical than previous work, Craig Taylor’s new paintings, both funny and ardent, look great at Sue Scott. The best pieces recall the lush, drippy, heavily-worked abstraction of the 1980s and early 1990s while incorporating the […]
Frans Hals’ spontaneity, hundreds of years later
Frans Hals, “The Smoker,” 1625, oil on wood, octagonal, 18 3/8 x 19 1/2.” Metropolitan Museum of Art, Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889 Who doesn’t love Dutch painting? Remember that time you were in Amsterdam and stopped by the coffee shop, then spent the afternoon in the […]
At home amid the ruins: Eva Struble at Lombard Freid
Eva Struble, “Admiral’s Row 3,” 2011, oil on canvas, 64.8 x 71.1 cm Eva Struble’s third solo at Lombard Freid Projects features paintings of the architectural ruins in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Using vivid color and layered, translucent textures, Struble breaks down the realism of her reference images, creating a […]
Twitter Notes
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 that I’m referring to another Twitter-er. �Gee, Joan, if only you were French […]
How-to video: Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh poured paint in the Berlin streets last year
“The team, made up of friends from Iepe�s chess boxing club, rented official German railway bicycles and rigged them with buckets at the front to carry the paint. They then loaded the bicycles and the paint into a truck and drove them to the intersection. After the bikes� buckets were […]
Michael Berryhill’s tabletops
Michael Berryhill, “Conceiving The Design,” 2011, oil on linen on panel, 16×16″ Michael Berryhill, a painter who still values a good struggle in his work, has several fine small-scale paintings in ‘Monkey Wrench,” a group show at Horton, through July 22. Heavily worked and overpainted (in a good way), the […]
IMAGES: Christian Sampson
Christian Sampson, Untitled, 2011, plexiglass construction, 24 x 12″ Using polymers, dyes, wood, and plexiglass, Christian Sampson explores how color, light, and shadow, while shifting between two and three dimensions, create form. I saw two of Sampson’s ingenious but humble pieces last week in “itinerant ones,” an exhibition at STOREFRONT […]
Art Guerra: Pigment dispersion + binder + other stuff = an alternate universe
Art Guerra at Sugar, installation view. In Bushwick last week, I stopped by Sugar to see Art Guerra’s paintings. Guerra is the founder of Guerra Paint and Pigment in the East Village, which, as far as I’m concerned, is the best place for acrylic pigments and binders anywhere. I […]
In Hudson: Pop-up Gallery Portraits and NADA
Pam Lins, “Charles the VI layout and fog,” 2011, oil on panel, 18 x 14″ Austin Thomas is helping Scot Cohen organize “Pop-up Gallery Portraits” at 430 Warren Street in Hudson, NY. The exhibition opens on July 30 and will coincide with NADA Hudson, a large-scale exhibition featuring projects by galleries […]
