Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Space � for instance, the relationship between negative and positive space � has long presented compositional challenges to artists. In her slyly penetrating and satirical film Exhibition, Joanna Hogg takes a bold step beyond from that rather bland observation and looks at how space […]
Appropriated texts and portraits of scientists, occultists, and historians are the starting points for many of Philip von Zweck�s challenging new paintings on view at Invisible Exports. Based in Chicago, von Zweck is known for a diverse art practice which, besides painting, includes performance, sound, participatory social projects, and Something […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / This summer painter Cary Smith takes a turn as a curator, organizing “This One�s Optimistic: Pincushion,” a raucous, salon-style exhibition at the New Britain Museum of American Art featuring paintings by forty of his favorite artists. Focusing primarily on abstraction, Smith has included a little […]
Sad news: gifted painter Jennifer Wynne Reeves died yesterday at 51 after a relentless onslaught of tumors in her brain. Represented by BravinLee Programs, Reeves posted this prayer to the art world on her Facebook page in April. [Image: Jennifer Wynne Reeves, Grace Boat, 2013, gouache, wire, string and cloth […]
SOME but not all NYC SELECTED SHOWS TO SEE / June 17, 2014 / Listed south to north. Compiled by artist Andrew Ginzel for his students at the School of Visual Arts. Note: Images are selected by Two Coats of Paint. [Image at top: Michael Wyshock @ Lu Magnus] LOWER […]
“ALMOST DELANCEYwith Marina Adams, David Rhodes, and Rebecca Smith,” Hionas Gallery, Lower East Side, New York, NY. Through July 6, 2014. With admirably little fuss, three artists exploit simple materials–thin paint on canvas (Adams), masked lines (Rhodes), and metal strips (Smith)–to generate sharply evocative and eye-catching work. Image at top: […]
This month I’m pleased to have work included in “Brooklyn Bridge,” a group show at George Lawson in San Francisco curated by Justine Frischmann. The exhibtion features fourteen contemporary painters who work in and around Brooklyn. In her fine catalogue essay, Frischmann, a gifted painter and former guitarist and lead […]
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve been an artist-in-residence at UConn’s Counterproof Press since January. After spending many sessions with artist and master printer Laurie Sloan exploring various processes, I found that I was drawn to the most uncomplicated prints that featured direct, unadorned line drawing printed in one […]
In 2011, seeing a relationship to the casualist tendency in contemporary art, I posted about Claude Viallat’s work and the inventive art movement known as “Supports/Surfaces” that took hold in the mid-1960s in the south of France. Expanding the notion of painting, Supports/Surfaces artists stressed the experimental use of non-art […]
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / French director Sebastien Betbeder�s 2 Autumns, 3 Winters is a deceptive movie. In its easy urbanity and charm, it seems to be poking a little fun at the solemnity of the New Wave filmmakers� embrace of life�s chaotic fickleness. Yet the film�s substance belies its […]
