Contributed by Sharon Butler / Cathy Quinlan, whose terrific new paintings and drawings are on view at Centotto in Bushwick, is old-fashioned. Instead of snapping images of paintings at galleries, she takes out her sketchbook and draws them, then posts them in �The Pencil Review,� a column at Talking Pictures, […]
Month: September 2018
Exhibition essay: Sarah Sentilles on Nancy Bowen at Kentler International Drawing Space
Contributed by Sarah Sentilles / Nancy Bowen calls herself an “artistic archaeologist,” and in her exhibition “For Each Ecstatic Instant,” you can see the fragments of her brilliant excavations: maps, engravings, pamphlets, stamps, glass, picture frames, and pages from books on scientists and language and personalities and enamelware and customs […]
Katherine Bradford: Deep image painting
Contributed by Jason Andrew / The art of Katherine Bradford, on view at Canada through October 21, is deep image painting. Her often heroic imagery and surrealist leaps echo a floating world, one that narratively exists between the real and the dream. Each work has a self-conscious spiritualist language that represents a […]
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide / September 2018
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Last fall, there was a dearth of solo exhibitions by female painters. This September, a slew of seasoned women have mounted terrific shows. They include Katherine Bradford, Jane Fine (image at top), Elena Sisto, Kyle Staver, Barbara Takenaga, Charline von Heyl, and more. I�ve put together a list of […]
Two Coats of Paint Resident Artist: Nancy Evans
Contributed by Mary Jones / Veteran Los Angeles artist Nancy Evans is bringing an installation of sculpture, painting and works on paper to Two Coats of Paint during her artist�s residency, which takes place from September 30 through October 6. Acclaimed for her original, independent vision, Evans combines a homespun sense of […]
Artist Statement of the Day: Jock Ireland
“I don’t like writing artist’s statements. I really don’t know what to say. I’m not even sure at this point what I’ll be showing. Some heads maybe. I guess I try to get some ‘form’ into my heads at least I’m less suspicious of form than I am of formlessness. […]
Studio visit with Barbara Takenaga
Contributed by Leslie Wayne / Barbara Takenaga has been pitting her skill at painting pattern against the physical constraints of materials for years, and her skill has usually won out. For a long time, bodies of work based on the Mandala were her signature motif. She meticulously painted carefully plotted circular […]
Invitation: “Sharon Butler New Paintings” at TheodoreArt
From the press release: Sharon Butler just spent a month at Yaddo, and used the time to, among other things, ruminate and transform ideas developed in her daily Good Morning Drawings, her digital sketches uploaded to Instagram. The Good Morning Drawings reflect the peripatetic experience of a contemporary painter with […]
Throbbing heart: Queerness and abstract painting
Contributed by Noah Dillon / In Stamford, Connecticut, Franklin Street Works, a non-profit art space with the curatorial vision of a marquis contemporary museum, is presenting �My Vicious Throbbing Heart: Animating Desire in Abstract Painting,� an exhibition of 34 works by a dozen artists. Curated by Risa Puleo, the exhibition […]