Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Having settled into my new studio at 55 Washington Street in DUMBO, I’ve started a batch of new work, none of which is ready to share yet. Moving from sublet to sublet for the past five years, I’ve come to expect a few unproductive weeks every time I move into […]
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / �Something Naught,� the new group show at Centotto, Paul D�Agostino�s redoubtable Bushwick salon, gathers four abstract artists who take very different approaches to resolving surfaces. The fact that surfaces themselves have aesthetic value in paintings sets painting apart from, say, digital work. So deciding how […]
One submission to the Spring/Break Quiz included this fantastic jpeg, and the answers have also been added to the original post here. I had a tie: two artists (you know who you are!) submitted all the correct answers. Thanks, everyone for participating. —— Two Coats of Paint is licensed under […]
Little about On Kawara�s life is evident from looking at his work. Much of his exhibition at the Guggenheim consists of compilations of journal-like data, which unfold like life itself � one day at a time. [Image at top: “On Kawara�Silence” at the Guggenheim. Installation view. All images courtesy […]
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / The Modern section of the Armory Show was like an unruly museum-quality exhibition, showcasing one anointed (and usually dead) artist after another, but in no particular order. If that dispensation fell short of framing the artists� work as respectfully or systematically as some might have […]
Guest contributor Peggy Cyphers / �New Narratives,� a large group show of recent representational painting at Storefront Ten Eyck, includes KK Kozik�s Orion�s Belt, an image of a traditional farmhouse, covered in snow and illuminated by a deliciously starry blue-black sky. Kozik is known for creating quasi-surreal scenarios, full of […]
Recalling Warhol�s 13 Most Wanted Men project, which debuted controversially at the 1964 World�s Fair, Suzanne McClelland in �Call With Information,� her latest show at Team Gallery, continues her series about a kindred subject: Americans citizens wanted by the government for domestic terrorism. For the past several years McClelland has […]
I was watching House of Cards last night, Season 3, Episode 3–the one in which the coarse and cagey Russian President Petrov makes a state visit to the White House. At one point (spoiler alert) , before his relationship with the Underwoods goes south, Francis gives Petrov a gift of […]
If you want to support artists but can’t face visiting 199 booths in one go at a mega-fair like the Armory, I recommend stopping by Salon Z�rcher on Bleecker Street (image above) where gallerist Gwenolee Z�rcher always invites a handful of galleries to mount exhibitions in her space during fair week. […]
This year VOLTA has taken up residence at Pier 90, a lovely spot on the Hudson right next to The Armory Show, which sprawls across Piers 92 and 94. A more manageable size than many of the other fairs, VOLTA is selective, and galleries that have been invited to participate […]
