Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
According to The Art Newspaper, Eric Fischl, painter and author of a 2013 memoir called Bad Boy, is leaving Mary Boone‘s gallery after thirty years. �Eric has wanted to change his working relationship with the gallery,� says Ron Warren, a director and partner at Mary Boone. �I think he has […]
Contributed by Katelynn Mills / One can never hide who they are in their work – I�ve always known and felt that painting is a direct extension of the artist�s soul. Be the individual a shallow, fabulous Warholian, or a deep and tortured Rothkoan, or anyone in between, a (wo)man�s […]
On my way to the studio, cruising down the West Side Highway bike path, I always pass the new Whitney Museum of American Art, which opened a few weeks ago with so many parties and festivities that I began to feel sorry for the staff. If I had to describe […]
Cecily Brown, a painter who recently left the Gagosian stable and has a show at Maccarone this month, parents a six-year-old daughter with architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff. In a recent interview on Vulture with Julie Belcove , Brown talks about her experience of being a mother. We lucked out; she’s […]
Transcribed by guest contributor Jennifer Coates / Kitty divides her time between New York City and Montauk. She is a freelance Intuitive Technique Specialist and part-time Trance Inducer. She was recently certified in Trauma Re-alignment and holds a dual Associates Degree in Breath Dancing for Painters and Creative Shock Control […]
Beacon is best known in the art community as the home of Dia:Beacon, but there are plenty of other things to do in town. Karlyn Benson, owner of Matteawan Gallery (where my solo show opens on Saturday, May 9, 6-9pm) has put together this list of other interesting places in […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / This Saturday, May 9, please join me for the opening of “New Social Situations,” my solo show at Karlyn Benson’s Matteawan Gallery in Beacon, NY. The show features small work from the past few years–from the time I was subletting space at the Elizabeth Foundation […]
By Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Kurt Cobain, the prince of grunge who took his own life in 1994 at age 27, would have disdained haute couture, and newly anointed Christian Dior creative director Raf Simons would have disparaged Cobain�s thrift-shop dress sense. Yet for all the corrosive chaos of […]
“Two new directions began to develop as I was winding down a portrait series in 2010. One involved daily drawing and painting on used paper coffee cups. Stalled in the studio, I initially experienced this habit as procrastination–until I began embracing it as a highly generative art form. Having amassed […]
Last year Laura Hutson wrote in Nashville Scene that Melodie Provenzano�s playful paintings “land somewhere between Jeff Koons kitsch and Takashi Murakami cute … bridging the tricky gap between commercial and accessible.” I’m looking forward to checking out Provenzano’s quirky brand of realism in her first solo show at Nancy […]
