In September Two Coats of Paint will be hosting Marie Thibeault for a seven-day residency. A professor of painting and drawing in the art department at California State University at Long Beach, Thibeault is on sabbatic leave for the fall semester.
Month: August 2016
Interview: Amie Cunat at Wave Hill
Contributed by Danni Shen / In her most recent solo exhibition at Wave Hill, New York-based painter Amie Cunat has created a floor-to-ceiling installation, and not for the first time. Totally immersive, Hideout exemplifies Cunat�s large-scale incorporation of vibrating color juxtapositions and nebulous shapes. Originally a functional sunroom, the space […]
My camping residency at Hammonasset Beach
This week I bought a cheap tent and headed to Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison, Connecticut, for a break from the city. I wanted to see the starry sky, draw by the nearly-full moon, and wake up before dawn to watch the sunrise on the beach. The 500-site campground […]
Art and Film: Ira Sachs on art and growing up
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Ira Sachs makes sensitive movies about contemporary urban life that are distinguished by their grand refusal to present stock characters or clich�d set-ups. Everything for him is a very particular situation, its resolution or unraveling organically driven by the unique traits and freight of the […]
Margot Bergman: The truer face
Contributed by Will Fenstermaker / The vultus, a Latin word that has no equivalent in Indo-European languages or ancient Greek, is the face that lies latent behind every image of a person. In an essay titled �An Idea of Glory,� Giorgio Agamben wrote that the vultus �isn’t something that transcends […]
Stuart Davis: The last painting
Stuart Davis, whose uneven but exhilarating retrospective is on view at the Whitney through September 25, is known for his playful fusion of advertising typography, bright color, and bold abstract shapes and lines. The exhibition begins with work from his early years and ends with his very last painting Fin, […]
A new maximalism? Collecting, typologies, and objects in “The Keepers”
The New York Times Magazine recently ran a column about the tyranny (and ubiquity) of minimalism as a hipster aesthetic. Author Kyle Chayka explored the fashionable trend toward downsizing�purging clutter and embracing fewer and more efficient, if often beautiful, objects. For those longing for an end to the less-is-more movement, […]
Conversation: Harry Davies on the union of material and meaning
Contributed by Kate Liebman / Harry Davies and I met in a painting critique session a couple of years ago when BHQFU was offering classes in the East Village. I visited his studio at Union Theological Seminary at Columbia recently, and we discussed what’s on his mind and in his […]
Interview: Timothy Nolan and his public art project at LAX
If you find yourself in Terminal 7 at the Los Angeles International Airport, you can’t miss Timothy Nolan’s new public art project, a series of� large-scale prints, made from collages that incorporate images of maps, galaxies, and other ephemera from the days when we looked things up in encyclopedias and […]
Invitations: Outlet Fine Art, Theodore:Art, Galerie Jean Fournier, Lesley Heller
This Friday, August 5, please join me at Outlet Fine Arts in Bushwick for the opening reception of “ISSUE 001: EXPENSIVE POETRY, the release of Postprint Magazine.” Organized by Julian A. Jimarez Howard and Postprint Magazine, the exhibition features a few of my paintings alongside work by Paul D�Agostino, Gary […]
