Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Monday, May 13, 2024
Every so often we get an email from e-artnow, an artist-run electronic information service based in Prague that distributes selected e-mail announcements related to contemporary visual arts. This week we got a long one that had a slew of links to international job opportunities, from becoming a registrar for the Adrian Piper Research […]
Contributed by Grant Wahlquist / Scooter LaForge is a painter who lives and works in New York City. His current exhibition at Theodore:Art, �Everything is Going to be OK,� features sculptures, works on canvas, and garments incorporating painting. I recently spoke with Scooter regarding the show, his artistic forebears, and […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In �Fecund Algorithms,� a�solo�exhibition of new paintings and diminutive�sewn-canvas works, Joan Waltemath�diverts gently from the quiet perfection of her previous work�to embrace�small accidents and contingencies. On view at Anita Rogers’s new light-filled second-floor gallery in Soho,�Waltemath’s work looks exquisite in�the�elegantly appointed room, which boasts Greek�columns […]
Contributed by Iris Cushing / A “cairn” is a group of stones, arranged in some intentional configuration, to mark a place along a trail. To make a cairn is to leave a point of reference in the present for one�s future self to encounter; its message is simply that the […]
On the�occasion of “Water Sports,” Todd Bienvenu’s�solo show on view at yours mine &�ours�through May 14, friend and fellow painter�Cynthia Daignault talked to Bienvenu�about learning to paint, art history, and the material�reality�of painting. “I don�t have to look very hard for ideas,” Bienvenu told Daignault.�”My favorite paintings are about really […]
Contributed by�Becky Huff Hunter / In his influential Art in America article �Provisional Painting� (2009), critic Raphael Rubinstein traced a history�from Joan Mir� to Mary Heilmann�of �works that look casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished or self-cancelling,� that �constantly risk inconsequence or collapse.� In Rubinstein�s analysis, this attitude provides an easier yoke […]
UPDATE (May 26): Thanks Erin Langner for including the exhibition in art ltd Magazine‘s “Critic’s Picks” section. The show is on view through June 3o: New York artist Sharon Butler’s “Good Morning Drawings”play with expectations of painting’s role to the digital world. Pushing past the oft-revisited inquiry into the medium’s […]
April 17th through 23rd, DC visual artist Julie Wolfe will be in residence at Two Coats of Paint. Forming an ongoing research-based practice, Wolfe’s conceptual work explores studies for possible futures, alternative and marginalized ways-of-knowing, salvage practices, and the relationship of human activity to Earth systems. Through reconfiguring and recontextualizing […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / CounterPointe, an inspired dance project organized by Jason Andrew and Julia Gleich of Norte Maar, unfurled last weekend at the Actors Fund Arts Center in downtown Brooklyn. In its fifth year, the project comprised a series of dances created collaboratively by female visual artists and choreographers. […]
Contributed by Katie Fuller / The masterly early paintings of Al Taylor, currently exhibited at David Zwirner, were made from 1971 through 1980, before he began creating his famously sculptural forms. Most of the paintings are rather large and vertical, and adhere to the rule of thirds, though some are […]
