Last night I went to John Yau’s poetry reading at the New York Studio School, where he read several poems, including “Further Adventures in Monochrome,” a poem written from Yves Klein‘s point of view. Here’s a video of Yau reading “My Ten Monochrome Adventures,” an earlier version of the evocative […]
Month: October 2011
Book of the Day: Coming to That by Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning, “Voltage,” 1942, oil on canvas, 11 1/8 x 12 1/8″ Dorothea Tanning,”Pelote d’�pingles pouvant servir de f�tiche (Pincushion to Serve as Fetish),” 1965, black velvet, white paint, gun pellets, and plastic with pins, 15 3/4 x 17 15/16 x 15 3/4.” courtesy of the Tate Gallery, London Graywolf […]
A rolling conversation: Pricing artwork
Everyone begins taking their seats before the Rolling Conversations get underway. Dr. Paul D’Agostino of Centotto and Rolling Conversation organizer Adam Simon discuss alt art spaces devoted to dialogue. Frances Richard and Matt Freedman discuss Clumpism and contemporary notions of the Avant Garde. Last night at “Rolling Conversations,” the inaugural […]
Process: Gerhard Richter
How does Gerhard Richter make those big abstract paintings? Filmmaker Corinna Belz spent three years recording Gerhard Richter at work in his Cologne studio. Here is some footage from the 2010 film, “Gerhard Richter Painting,” which is on view this weekend at the Tate Modern in conjunction with his career […]
Rolling Conversations this Friday night in Bushwick
UPDATE: For a report on my conversation with Austin and images of the event, click here. This Friday, October 21, 7- 9pm, please join me for “Rolling Conversations,” an event organized by Adam Simon at Studio 10, a new gallery/salon (pictured above) at 56 Bogart Street in Bushwick. 56 Bogart […]
Good painting: Tatiana Berg and Sarah Faux
Berg stretches canvas around handmade wooden frames and then paints the surfaces with spray paint, oil and enamel. Comparing their process to Bill Murray’s improv, Sarah Faux and Tatiana Berg think sometimes you die onstage, but eventually you stop fearing death. After several rounds of email regrets and missed appointments […]
Quick study
Here are some recent items expanded from the Two Coats of Paint Twitter Feed. Among the 18 artists selected for the deCordova Biennial is Joe Wardwell. “Come on Feel it,” 2011, oil on panel, 24″ x 24″ 18 artists selected for deCordova Biennial, Jan. 22-Apr. 22, 2012 ‘The 2012 Biennial […]
Susan Rothenberg’s disparate images
Susan Rothenberg, “Raven,” 2010, oil on canvas, 87 1/2 x 75 1/8.” Susan Rothenberg’s show at Sperone Westwater features vigorous new paintings of birds, circus performers, heads, hands, and smaller paintings of dogs napping in the studio. At first glance, the subjects of the paintings seem unconnected. But the driving […]
Field trip: Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Yesterday I went up to MassArt in Boston to participate in an excellent panel discussion about teaching visual arts courses online. I was an undergrad painting major at MassArt, and it was good to stop in for a visit. Here are some images from the trip. Camel made out of […]
The importance of language: Josephine Halvorson
Josephine Halvorson, “Hot Coals,” 2009. This images is from her 2009 show at Sikkema Jenkins. I’ll post images of new work after her upcoming show opens. Here’s the press release of the day, which was selected because the language used to describe Josephine Halvorson‘s beautiful, old-school perceptual paintings makes them […]
