On Friday Charline von Heyl’s seventh solo show opened at Petzel, and the paintings look fantastic. Two Coats is putting this exhibition on the top of the MUST SEE list for next week.  Image at top: Charline von Heyl, Slow Tramp, 2012, oil, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 82 x […]

On Thursday, September 12, 5 – 7 pm, please join me for the opening of “Sharon Butler: Dense Surveillance,” a solo show at the Fine Art Gallery at Westchester Community College that will be on view through November 24. In a large, quirky space, the exhibition includes new work as […]

Over the past year, curator, writer and gallery director Stephanie Buhmann has been conducting a series of conversations with artists, which she has generously made available on her website. The following excerpts from a recent studio visit with Melissa Meyer speak to newness, abstraction and the notion that our surroundings […]

From the Whitney’s website: Around 1910, Arthur Dove became the first American artist to make a painting that had no recognizable images in it. He resisted calling his paintings �abstractions.� Instead, he insisted that they were �extractions,� since he worked to extract the essential nature of real-world subjects. He believed […]