Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Staying in Culver City for a few days, overlooking the 405, I couldn’t have asked for a more compelling view. I always forget how much I love Los Angeles. —— Two Coats of Paint is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution – Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. For […]
Austin Thomas, Be Nice to Everybody, 2014, print on paper, small scale. Thomas has work included in the star-studded “Seven Year Anniversary Group Show” at English Kills, one of the first galleries in Bushwick. —— Two Coats of Paint is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution – Noncommercial-No Derivative Works […]
Paul D�Agostino�s Bushwick gallery Centotto is an intimate space, presenting itself like the drawing room of an especially erudite and charmingly uncynical hipster. In the gallery�s clever group show �Vapors and Squalls, or Mediums,� comprising work by Kate Teale, Karen Marston, Jonathan Quinn, and Wendy Klemperer, D’Agostino has arrayed paintings […]
This year I curated “Possible as a Pair of Shoes,” the Brooklyn College MFA thesis exhibition, which opens this Friday at Show Room in Gowanus. On Saturday, May 3, 3-6 pm, I’ll be hosting a Curator’s Afternoon at the gallery, so please stop by and join the conversation. The exhibition […]
SOME but not all NYC SELECTED SHOWS TO SEE / April 22, 2014 / Listed south to north. Compiled by artist Andrew Ginzel for his students at the School of Visual Arts. Note: Images have been selected by Two Coats of Paint. Annie Lapin in “Dee Ferris, Barnaby Furnas, Annie […]
“View of Dawn in the Tropics,” an exhibition of Julian Schnabel’s paintings, made from 1989-90, never seen in NYC, is on view at Gagosian (Chelsea) through the end of May. The following video has great footage of Schnabel making mammoth paintings at his outdoor studio on Montauk. Definitely worth […]
Please join us for an Art and Social Media Symposium organized by Marie Thibeault at California State University Long Beach, Sunday, April 27. I’ll give a lecture at 2pm, followed by a panel discussion featuring Julia Schwartz, Doug Harvey, Kio Griffith, Grant Vetter, and moderated by Dane Klingaman. The event, […]
My last post precipitated several comments about Walter Robinson’s term “Zombie Formalism” and about the type of work discussed, as well as some offline discussion about labeling art movements in general. In an age supposedly marked by an inclusive, anything-goes pluralism, the arguments sparked by recent approaches to painting reveal […]
A few weeks ago, Cary Smith sent me an email with a link to Australian artist Andy Boot’s work. A scroll through his page on the Croy Nielsen website reveals how the Casualist approach can serve a transitional purpose for individual artists. Boot made loosely stretched canvas pieces back in […]
It’s hard to tell if John O’Donnell is serious, and he seems to want it that way. Although known for his outlandish performances and kitschy installations that riff on contemporary art making strategies, in a recent show at The Schumacher Gallery at Westover School, O’Donnell presented a series of small […]
