Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The art world and the bourgeoisie are taking a cinematic beating this year. Noah Baumbach�s The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) mercilessly exposes the resentments of has-been art stars, and Yorgos Lanthimos� The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a supremely creepy and deeply humorous […]
Transcribed by guest contributor�Jennifer Coates�/ Kitty divides her time between New York City and Montauk. She is a freelance Intuitive Technique Specialist and part-time Trance Inducer. She was recently certified in Trauma Re-alignment and holds a dual Associates Degree in Breath Dancing for Painters and Creative Shock Control from the […]
Contributed by Marjorie Welish / The clearest innovation of Portuguese artist Fernanda Fragateiro�s poignant�exhibition, on view at Jos�e Bienvenu through November 4, is the enlistment of industrial design to draw attention to women�s contributions to the arts. Custom-made acrylic boxes containing books hang from the gallery wall here and there. […]
Several years ago, Two Coats of Paint encountered Erika Ranee’s paintings during an open studio event at the Marie Sharpe Walsh Foundation. Soaked with vibrant color, her large-scale abstractions were exuberant conglomerations of snippets culled from the overlooked details of everyday life. On the occasion of her “Zip-A-Dee-A,” a solo show earlier this year at the Mazmanian Gallery at Framingham State University, Two Coats invited Ranee to share ten ideas or influences that inform her recent work.
Drawing has become an increasingly important part of my art practice, and this weekend, four etching editions produced during a stimulating�residency at Counterproof Press�(located on the campus of the University of Connecticut at Storrs) will be on display in�”Editions+Friends,� a collaborative project organized by�Theodore:Art in Bushwick. The etchings – jumbled […]
Contributed by�Debbi Kenote /�Staring at a large pin board in Margie Livingston�s Seattle studio, artist�Til Will and I observe a collage of quotes, photos and notes. In the top corner there is a photo of a woman dragging a canvas. One word stands out from the notes: shame. I mull […]
Contributed by Jeff Bergman�/ I find myself absorbed in detail and affected by the stories that unfold in�Sahana Ramakrishnan‘s exotic imagery. Ramakrishnan’s work, on view�at Field Projects through October 28, �embraces sculpture, painting, and print, all with�exuberant color and crowded images bursting�with�elusive tales�that�lead viewers down a path – maybe a […]
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is arguably Noah Baumbach’s best movie since The Squid and the Whale, and seems sure to advance his putative destiny of becoming Woody Allen�s successor as the ranking cinematic chronicler of the artily exasperating New York state of mind. Like the […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In his first solo show at Greene Naftali, Peter Halley contends with the new American reality of an increasingly shameless and authoritarian state under which, despite the best efforts of an overstretched free press and an embattled political opposition, the difference between fact and fiction has become increasingly obscured. Halley has outfitted the cavernous gallery with metallic floor-to-ceiling digital prints, tweaked lighting, a handful of his signature paintings, and intermittent sound emissions to create a disturbing sense of unease and “topsy-turvy disorientation. In the back room, as a mordant coda, Halley has included one of Robert Morris’s 1978 sculptures made of classical architectural fragments and a distorting fun house mirror.
Contributed by Dion Kliner / Over the course of more than five decades as a non-representational painter Pierre Coupey has deliberately avoided settling into a signature style. His pursuit is the presentation of a material and its range of application. An explorer�s zeal for discovery is only half the explanation. […]
