Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Friday, April 26, 2024
CB1 presents intriguing new pieces by Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia this month. His work references diverse sources ranging from personal anecdotes to art-historical and ethnographic motifs, and takes structural and organizational cues from Scottish Tartan, basket weaving, and abstract painting. Segovia paints the paper, then weaves the painted strips into large, oddly […]
I just received an email with a long listing of artist opportunities, so I thought I’d share a few. When I see residencies like this posted, I think of the thousands of artists who aren’t selected each year. Keep in mind that artists can expand opportunities by creating their own […]
A while back I mentioned that John Yau, poet, former arts editor at The Brooklyn Rail, and one of the masterminds of Hyperallergic Weekend, was in the process of curating a painting show, and I just received the press release. The inspired final roster for “Broken/Window/Plane” includes Andrea Belag, Paul […]
Chris Martin is like a god to young abstract painters, so when the lovably prolific maestro presents new work, celebration ensues. The raucous paintings in his current show at Mitchell-Innes & Nash don’t disappoint–they feature much of his familiar imagery and go-to materials like glitter, newspaper collage, and sewn-together tarps. […]
Allison Miller’s first major NYC show is a knockout. Citing inspiration from disparate sources such as Vuillard, Fontana, and Magritte, Miller’s edgy, mid-size paintings manage to render the uncanny and the absurd in abstract form. Her process is “a journey without predetermined destination, a map of its progression contained within […]
UPDATE (February 29, 2012): At 4pm on Saturday, March 3, Austin Thomas will wrap up her exhibition and salon series with a talk about her work. See you there! This Friday, February 10th, at 5 pm, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Austin Thomas and I will talk about making art, blogging, and […]
The February art section in The Brooklyn Rail is dedicated exclusively to painting. “Because we believe it is necessary periodically to take the pulse of painting, we propose in this issue to use diverse forms of criticism to examine what one can see this month in New York City,” guest […]
In December I posted Part 1: Where is Joshua Abelow, and readers may recall that Abelow, painter and editor of ART BLOG ART BLOG, currently has an exhibition at Dan Devening Projects & Editions in Chicago. Here is Part 2 of our conversation, which includes edited excerpts from a rambling […]
Thank you, Art in America, for posting “Provisional Painting Part 2: To Rest Lightly on the Earth,” Raphael Rubinstein’s eagerly anticipated update to “Provisional Painting,” online this month. Rubinstein takes a more experimental, philosophical approach, attempting to explain the why of provisional painting in nine numbered paragraphs and four interludes. […]
Yesterday I was in Chelsea where I saw Gordon Moore’s sublime large-scale paintings and photo emulsion drawings at Betty Cuningham. Juxtaposing dimensional space with drawn and painted shapes, Moore’s reductive paintings reflect his interest in the illusions perpetrated by photography and linear perspective. Within a single canvas he combines three […]
