Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Monday, May 13, 2024
Contributed by Dion Kliner / Looking from painting to painting at “The Course of a Distant Empire,� Jay Senetchko�s fine solo exhibition at Windsor Gallery in Vancouver,�you might begin to recall�the distinctly dissonant percussion in�Tom Waits�s cheerfully ominous�song as he plaintively asks, �What�s he building in there?� And then, �Where […]
About the artist:�Phoebe Funderburg-Moore�uses her sketchbook like a visual diary, reflecting�on experiences and collecting her thoughts. Along with the sketchbook practice, Phoebe makes�murals, comics, album covers, t-shirts,�and more. She grew up in�Philadelphia and currently�studies music and art at�Goucher College�in Baltimore.�Last year Phoebe�went to Italy,�where she studied�art, learned Italian, and worked […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Laura Owens�s mid-career survey�at the Whitney Museum�features more than�60 paintings, many large-scale and hung salon-style, from the mid-1990s until today. The�work is all over the map, but Owens�s�primary interest lies in�fusing�craft, doodling, sentimental greeting card and children�s book illustration, narrative, pop culture, and digital prints�into […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Offices were once equipped with typewriters, copy machines, and paperclips, and, of course, contained the files that organized and stored �paperwork.� Leslie Brack’s new�paintings of well-worn metal file cabinet drawers, on view at Cathouse Proper�s new space in Carroll Gardens,�evoke this�forgotten past, in which�information, rather […]
“I am attracted to related visual phenomena like positive and negative, pattern and randomness, color and grayscale, flatness and depth, representation and abstraction. I always want to go in different directions at the same time and much of my work has involved trying to find ways to integrate these so-called […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / From�a recent exhibition organized to raise money for �Chef Jose Andres’s World Central Kitchen’s relief efforts in Puerto Rico, I came home with two wonderful pieces, which I’ve decided to use�as gifts for contributors to the 2017 Two Coats of Paint Year-end Fundraising campaign. The […]
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Cult film auteur Guillermo del Toro, director and co-writer of the triumphant The Shape of Water, sees 1962, in which it is set, as a historical hinge point. It was the first (and last) full year of Kennedy�s Camelot and the final year of America�s […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In her ninth solo show at Greene Naftali, Jacqueline Humphries presents ten towering�canvases that grapple with our relationship to digital technology and the overwhelming nature of the “data surround.� For this new body of work, the artist has�translated�her earlier paintings into�ASCII, a character-based image encoding […]
Contributed by Marjorie Welish / “Synchronicity: A State of Painting� an exhibition featuring work by�Roy Dowell and Richard Kalina, on view at Lennon, Weinberg through December 23, demonstrates that two artists standing their�aesthetic ground can produce an�uncommonly interesting pairing and debate. Though these two artists both have�a schematic approach, their […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In his second solo at Fredericks & Freiser, Cary Smith presented a new group of his signature hard-edged abstractions. These�feature bold color and variations on two�themes: the mandala (geometry) and the portrait (humanism). Made with tiny sable brushes�without the aid of masking tape, Smith�s paintings,�conjuring […]
