Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Artist and citizen naturalist Brece Honeycutt lives in Massachusetts, on a colonial farmhouse in the foothills of the Berkshire mountains. Fascinated with the history of her home and the surrounding land, she reads handwritten antique diaries at the local library, gathers old textiles, and creates natural dyes from the plants […]
Jered Sprecher‘s�first museum exhibition, “Outside In” at the Knoxville Museum of Art,�features an unusual�installation strategy that�evokes intimate domestic�spaces�and enables�viewers to experience his recent work in two ways: as�both a partitioned environment�and�as individual�objects. The�paintings are based on a range of found imagery–birds, flowers, and forests–but�after Sprecher runs them�through a rigorous digitization […]
Contributed by Rob Kaiser-Schlatzlein / As an artist, I�used to feel�that�doing my taxes would always be a complicated�burden. But�there is�no good reason tax season has to�be eternally�daunting; all I�needed was�some good practical information and a�little up-front learning. In the past, friends have offered�a mixed-bag of tax tips, but none seemed […]
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / It would be easy to cast the tireless, unconstrained Raymond Pettibon as the louche trickster demigod of wise-ass artist-snipers. But it would be lazy, even grudging and condescending, to leave it there. As his abundant � in one dose, perhaps overwhelming, albeit thematically arranged � […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In 1955,�two white men brutally lynched �Emmet Till, a black 14-year-old boy from Chicago who was visiting relatives in their Mississippi town. The men were arrested, tried, and unjustly, outrageously,�acquitted of all charges. At the time, horrifying photographs�of Till’s mutilated face, taken as he lay […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In a lively group show of large canvases at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery, curator Jason Stopa makes a strong case that contemporary painters, particularly those working figuratively, are cultivating a new form of Expressionism. He cites popular culture (cartoons, fashion photography, YouTube videos), personal narrative, […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Thanks to the ongoing disaster known as the Trump administration, anxiety was in the air at the art fairs this year. Unconstitutional��deportation, hate crime, heedless�military intervention, political corruption, the impending�loss of affordable healthcare for 24 million people, and the failure�of GOP will to seriously investigate�palpable�indications�of […]
Contributed by Katarina Wong / Alex O�Neal is an artist based in Cooperstown, New York, whose recent show �Hiding Places in a Dream� at Linda Warren Projects in Chicago was a visual knock-out – a dizzying array of hyper-saturated canvases balanced with intimate, small-scale drawings. Throughout the exhibition, O�Neal continues […]
This month Two Coats of Paint welcomes�Jim�Shrosbree�to the studio�for a seven day�artist’s residency.� A professor of painting and drawing at�Maharishi University�in Fairfield, Iowa, Shrosbree uses�diverse�materials such as�ceramic, plaster, wire, aluminum, and suede to create�intimately-scaled sculptures and wall-based objects.
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Last year I visited Jayanthi�Moorthy‘s�studio�and suggested she get�in touch with Kathryn Myers, a UConn colleague of mine who has facilitated cultural exchanges with Indian artists, curated numerous shows of their work, and�participated in many exhibitions in India.�The two artists connected, and this year they curated […]
