Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Monday, May 13, 2024
After a period exploring the notion of restraint–paring down her palette�and limiting the number of marks–Elizabeth Gilfilen�has returned to epic struggle. In her pulsating new large-scale canvases, Gilfilen�pits clashing colors against one another in snaking layers and agitated line, filling once pristine areas with murky, mark-cancelling clots of paint. She […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / This year Trestle Gallery�s summer group show, �Small Work,� was curated by Bill Carroll, a painter and the director at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program. Selecting work for this kind of show, defined not by theme but simply by size, is always […]
Baltimore�s most prestigious art prize is the Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, a sizable�fellowship�awarded to artists who live or work in the Baltimore region. Unlike the DeCordova Museum of Art�s Rappaport Prize, which was recently awarded to Sam Durant, an artist who grew up in the Boston area but […]
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson /In his paradoxically granular war epic Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan assumes viewers know that the British Army�s 1940 strategic retreat from the eponymous French coastal town was crucial to Allied victory in World War II, minimizing narrative exposition and personal back-story and thrusting the audience straight into […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler and Jonathan Stevenson / Some artists�go upstate to get away from the art world in the summer, and others gather an�art world around�them wherever they go. We�went up�to the Adirondacks�recently to visit the summer outpost of Norte Maar for Collaborative Projects in the Arts in Jay, […]
FOR THIS EDITION of the summer fiction column, my old friend�Rand Richards Cooper has contributed �Light,� a poignant story �published in Big as Life, his�1996 collection of short fiction.�In �Light��Cooper�imagines reconnecting with our old high school art teacher. –SB
Contributed by Sharon Butler / �”Painting Not Painting� is an exhibition at ‘sindikit, the�project space run by Tim Doud and Zo� Charlton�in Baltimore.�Artists include Paolo Arao,�Rush Baker,�Sharon Butler,�Dan Devening,�Phaan Howng,�Sabina Ott + Kelly Lloyd, and�Jo Smail. From the�press release: The artists participating in Project 8 are all artists who have […]
Gretchen Frances Bennett: “Objects that appear in my�drawings are pieced together place holders, in an ongoing search for the things that stay. They�speak to a fleeting image caught peripherally, that can hold basic significant information. This constellation of related and incomplete fragments continually touches down on this question of what […]
According to the press release for �Cognition-Stroll,� a collaborative exhibition on view at Project:ARTspace that features Annette Cords and Becky Brown, the hyphenated term is a literal English translation of the German compound word Erkenntnisspaziergang, which means “a practice of going out to gain deeper insight while walking.” Brown and Cords roam the streets of New York City, accumulating […]
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / George Eliot said, wisely, that �our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.� For the great and infamous, it�s a prescription for immortality. As to more ordinary people, the sentiment can be cloyingly anodyne around the moment of a loved one�s […]
