Award-winning NYC blogazine, primarily about painting
Saturday, May 15, 2021
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The Outside Story, writer-director Casimir Nozkowski’s agreeable feature debut, shapes up as a fairly typical indie shaggy-dog story: a mildly dissolute creative type finds himself in a mildly humorous jam that resolves itself over the course of the film in a mildly heartwarming way, preferably […]
On May 13, to help kick off another online edition of Dumbo Open Studios, Two Coats of Paint has organized a marathon art conversation on Clubhouse featuring a lively crew of DUMBO regulars. Artists and arts organizations will join us throughout the day to talk about art, exhibitions, issues and […]
In her show at Canada, Katherine Bradford’s colors and brushwork radiate a sense of unrestrained joy in material, barely contained by the limits of the canvas.
Contributed by Anne MacLeod / I first encountered the installation Antoine’s Organ by Rashid Johnson in 2019 by accident, as it sat serenely inside the ornate and spacious entryway of the Gropius Bau in Berlin. At the tail-end of an exhausting work trip, I was taken aback by the compelling […]
Contributed by Zach Seeger / “It’s in the eyes,” a teacher told me about a Giacometti painting that hung on the wall in his den. “The sitters stare blankly and persistent. We stare back.” Ann Craven’s current exhibition “Animals Birds Flowers Moons” at Karma, separated into three locations, is a […]
Contributed by Rachel Beach / Sometimes we let the world bury us, if only temporarily. And sometimes we center ourselves, tighten our core, and lift. After a year (or four) that no one could fathom, the onset of spring in New York City coupled with a whiplash vaccine rollout has […]
Contributed by Carol Diamond / In very good art, stark opposites like life and death, night and day, and pain and joy co-exist in harmonious juxtaposition, eliciting the powerful fusion of vastly different emotions through empathy and imagination. The eight large paintings in “Rebecca Purdum, Breathing Painting,” currently on view at […]
Contributed by Paul D’Agostino / A few foragers gathered in a middle-grounded clearing in a forest, conversing casually as their dogs sniff and shuffle excitedly at their feet. A man in a tub in a cream-of-pink tiled bathroom scrubbing his soap-cloaked pup as he bathes himself. A lone walker in […]
Contributed by Sangram Majumdar / I think I met Angelina first through a mutual friend Karla Wozniak when Karla and I were residents at the Sharpe Walentas Residency in 2009. Soon we realized we had other things in common, including MICA, where she went for a brief time. I met […]
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / These times demand both mordant humor and serious contemplation, which helps explain the prevalence of meticulously packaged black comedies in cinema. Two prominent and very good ones that come to mind are Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman, a diamond-hard dissection of the extended kill-chain of […]
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide: May 2021
Cathouse Proper: Leslie Brack, Kenosha, 2021, watercolor on paper, 12 x 12 inches
Frieze New York arrives last week at the Shed in Hudson Yards for a four day post-lockdown ...
Katherine Bradford: Consoled and consoler
In her show at Canada, Katherine Bradford's colors and brushwork radiate a sense of unrestrained joy in material, barely contained by the limits of the canvas.
Invitation: Two Coats Marathon Art Conversation @Clubhouse, May 13
Stop by Clubhouse and join the Two Coats of Paint rooms, Thursday, May 13, 2021.
On May 13, to help kick off another online edition of Dumbo Open Studios, Two Coats ...
Studio visit: Susanna Heller’s endless strength
Paintings in Susanna Heller’s Williamsburg studio
Contributed by Medrie MacPhee / Before Susanna Heller’s paintings were wrapped and shipped to Toronto for her upcoming solo show at Olga Korper, I brought Sharon Butler ...
Art and Film: Casimir Nozkowski’s Brooklyn
Bryan Tyree Henry as Charles in The Outside Story
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The Outside Story, writer-director Casimir Nozkowski’s agreeable feature debut, shapes up as a fairly typical indie shaggy-dog ...
Theresa Hackett: Divide and confront
Theresa Hackett, "Around The Bend," Front Gallery View
Contributed by Riad Miah / Theresa Hackett's “Around the Bend,” her second solo show at High Noon Gallery and first at its new ...
Art and Film: Painter-Spy in Bridge of Spies
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Bridge of Spies begins and ends with a painting. Steven Spielberg’s latest film is a penetrating and affecting consideration of the Cold War, based on ...
Art and TV: Professor T, an extraordinary burst of mind
Koen de Bouw as Professor Jasper Teerlinck on Professor T
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Boy did the otherwise on-the-mark Guardian television critic Lucy Mangan get it wrong. In her 2017 ...
Hanging on for dear life: Ann Craven at Karma
Ann Craven, Woodpecker (and the Moon), 2021, 2021, oil on canvas, 84 × 72 inches
Contributed by Zach Seeger / “It’s in the eyes,” a teacher told me about a Giacometti ...
Richard Tuttle sees the light
Richard Tuttle, Silhouette. Opportunity, 2019, fir plywood, lattice strip. glue, nails, spray paints, 33 × 30 × 2 inches
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Richard Tuttle, who has ...