Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Contributed by Eileen Jeng Lynch / Harking back to the Impressionists, Lauren Luloff has begun painting from life,�focusing on light, color, and the world around her.�The new�work has an atmospheric quality, nicely showcased by�the light-filled space at�Ceysson & B�n�ti�re on Madison Avenue last month. The�exhibition comprised paintings and wall-mounted ceramic […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Tom McGlynn�s enigmatically reductive paintings are a study in subtle contrasts between systematization and autonomy, order and disarray. Horizontal rectangles of various sizes and colors are rendered on a monochromatic surface, each with immaculately straight edges and carefully painted a solid color. Yet these shapes, […]
Contributed by Julia Gray / Painter Peter Schenck combines hard-edge abstraction with gestural brushwork and vivid color to create densely patterned scenes that capture a cast of characters caught in awkward moments. Almost collage-like in concept and practice, his paintings merge elements from his own life and imagination with found […]
Contributed by�Dian Parker�/ Vermont artist�Laurie Sverdlove has been painting for�four�decades. In high school�she�took classes at the Art Students League in New York City�and earned�her�MFA from UC Berkeley in California, where she studied��with�Joan Brown and Elmer Bischoff. After completing her�PhD coursework in Russo-Iranian History at the University of Pennsylvania, Sverdlove�lived in […]
Contributed by Dion Kliner / A preamble: An elephant in a living room, as unlikely as it is to find one there, would never be mistaken for a couch. That is something of the situation that Jeremy Hof’s work puts one in; forcing the unfortunate necessity of bringing up the question of a particular piece being either painting or sculpture when an answer should be obvious and unnecessary. At this date the general question of something being either painting or sculpture is about as interesting as the question of whether something is art or not, and as equally productive (which is to say not at all). And yet here the question sits (I imagine it grinning), persistent and unavoidable.
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / During the pre-Mad Men golden age of roadside America, advertising billboards set a tone of warm and friendly commercialism. Perhaps the most notable and culturally durable ones were those of Burma-Shave, a then-novel brushless shaving cream. The ads were picture-free and strictly verbal: they consisted […]
“The practice of making my art public is a new one, because often drawing is a coping mechanism for me. Scanning & posting my drawings feels scary because my sketchbook acts as a visual diary of my life, but ultimately it seems worth the vulnerability.” Phoebe Funderburg-Moore uses her sketchbook […]
The Joan Mitchell Foundation has recently named the�recipients of their 2017 Painters and Sculptors Grant Program. The grant program, consideration by nomination only, awards 25 under-recognized�artists $25,000�each year. This year’s�roster�includes:�Leonardo Benzant�,�Ruth Buentello,�Colin Chase,�Pamela Council,�Solomon Enos,�Jes Fan,�Ana Fernandez,�jonathan paul gillette,�Salvador Jim�nez-Flores,�Sonya Kelliher-Combs,�Riva Lehrer,�Joel Longnecker,�Michi Meko,�Drew Michael,�Arcmanoro Niles,�Pat Phillips,�Lucy Puls,�Analia Segal,�Rodrigo Valenzuela,�Derrick […]
Things we�ve been reading (besides the horrific news about our shrinking healthcare, the tax�overhaul, sexual assault allegations, and the ongoing shit show�known as the Trump administration): Gentrification protests at Laura Owens�s Whitney exhibition, Magic Praxis podcast with Susan Bee, art classes at Guant�namo Bay prison in Cuba, the�most expensive painting […]
Dear Readers, Two Coats of Paint�began publishing�in 2007, and this past year,�thanks to your generous �tax-deductible contributions,�ongoing�support from advertisers, and subsidized rent from the Two Trees Cultural Space Subsidy Program, we have been�able to continue for another year. Your funding enabled us�to�produce�articles, pay�contributors, promote�our intern to a paid position, host […]
