Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Monday, May 13, 2024
I have two shows opening this week: A solo show (S-105)curated by Robert Yoder/SEASON at the PULSE Contemporary Art Fair and the Paris iteration of Deux Cotes / Two Sides, at Galerie Jean Fournier. This exhibition is the second of a two-part collaboration, presented with Theodore:Art in Brooklyn. If you are […]
Contributed by Mira Dayal / Pastel balloons pregnant with helium shimmer in front of angular shadows cast from unseen objects in a photograph of a small room. In a nearby painting, these shapes morph into colorful arcs and elbows that playfully mimic the photograph’s composition. The candid titling of the […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler/ In “H-L,” Jacob Kassay’s second�solo show at 303 Gallery, the artist has left behind�the silver-covered canvases for which he is best known.�In the new work, he contemplates space,�introducing white aluminum and urethane�sculptures that look like architectural details.�
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Eric Brown, co-director of Tibor De Nagy�Gallery,�has been a secret painter for years, and this month he had his first�NYC solo show at CRUSH Curatorial in Chelsea. We’ve�shown together �at Theodore:Art in Bushwick several times, and I’ve always loved his�matte surfaces, rich color relationships, and […]
The following text�is Raphael Rubinstein‘s�moving remembrance of �Shirley Jaffe,�which he�read during the�October memorial service for Jaffe�at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The images are courtesy of Tibor de Nagy, Jaffe’s NYC gallery.
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Esteemed in Germany during the Weimar Republic but branded a “degenerate artist” by the anti-modern Adolf Hitler, the great expressionist painter Max Beckmann fled Nazi Germany to Amsterdam and continued to paint. Returning to Germany after the war may have struck him as craven or […]
I asked Zach Seeger, artist�and co-director of This Friday Or Next Friday, a small gallery space in DUMBO, why he paints eyes. “I began painting the eye paintings following a series of collages that were inspired by the threat (real or imagined) of an all formatting eye: the eye of […]
Two Coats of Paint�began publishing in 2007, and this past year we saw tremendous growth�thanks to tax-deductible contributions�from more than 200�readers, support from new advertisers, and a generous follow-up grant from the�Creative Capital �/ �Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Program.�Your funding enabled us�to�redesign the site, overhaul the antiquated Blogger code, […]
“I don�t believe in hope,� Kerry James Marshall said�in a recent interview with Wyatt Mason in the NYTimes.��I believe in action. If I�m an apostle of anything: There are always going to be complications, but to a large degree, everything is in your hands.� For students and young�painters�questioning the importance […]
Contributed by Rob Kaiser-Schlatzlein / David Salle, in the 1980s an enfant terrible of painting, has published�How to See,�a collection of essays on art and artists written over the course of some�thirty years. While many people do not know Salle as a writer, recently he has had�a regular column in […]
