Month: January 2013
Thin and thick: Mario Naves and Brett Baker
At Elizabeth Harris Gallery, Mario Naves has the front room and Brett Baker, publisher of Painter’s Table, has the back. Two years ago, after making collages for twenty years, Naves turned to painting larger geometric abstractions on canvas. His buoyant compositional strategies recall those of his earlier collages, but the […]
Andrew Ginzel’s list of selected NYC shows and events
February 4, 2013 / SOME but not all NYC SELECTED SHOWS TO SEE /Listed south to north. Compiled by artist Andrew Ginzel for his students at the School of Visual Arts. LOWER EAST SIDEMonsalvat, a project by Merkx & Gwynne / Bureau / 127 Henry / thru 2/17Sharon Butler / […]
Under pressure: Q&A with Sheri Schwartz
JOE BUN KEO: Portraiture of the self can express vanity, portraiture of others can express admiration, and some portraiture can memorialize and immortalize. What are you aiming for in your portraiture? SHERI SCHWARTZ: At times, I seek out particular people to paint because of a social issue, or they look […]
Claiming Modernism
“Radical Terrain,” the Rubin Museum’s third exhibition exploring Modernism in India, focuses on landscape, presenting work by the generation of artists who worked after India gained independence in 1950. Alongside work by the older artists, curator Beth Citron has included work by an international cohort of younger artists, including Meagan […]
Indian studies: Kathryn Myers
Since taking a 1999 sabbatic leave in India, Kathryn Myers‘s small-scale observational paintings have been richly informed by Indian life and culture. At Bose Archives last month, she recalled how she fell in love with the art and people of this huge, colorful dempcracy. Myers has enthusiastically curated numerous exhibitions […]
“Sharon Butler: Precisionist Casual” at Pocket Utopia
From the press release: Pocket Utopia is pleased to present “Precisionist Casual,” a solo exhibition of new paintings by Sharon Butler. The exhibition will feature Butler’s stapled, washed canvases, unstretched yet arranged on stretchers. Butler finds herself pulled between the worldly confines of the Precisionists of the early twentieth […]
