Award-winning NYC blogazine, primarily about painting
Sunday, September 26, 2021
During my first visit to Daniel Wiener’s studio, we talked about his Apoxie-Sculpt head series that fuse a 1960s psychedelic sensibility with collective angst, his idiosyncratic process, and an exploration of other unusual projects during the lockdown.
Sharon Butler interviewed Louise Fishman, who passed away in July, for The Brooklyn Rail in October 2012. The interview, which was quoted in the New York Times’s obituary for Louise, is reprinted here.
To understand how all the moving parts or art careers fit together, sociologist Hannah Wohl spent countless hours trailing collectors at art fairs, talking to dealers, making studio visits with artists at all professional stages, and analyzing hundreds of art reviews.
A conversation between artists Robin Hill and Elisa D’Arrigo, whose solo show at Elizabeth Harris is on view through July 31.
Scene + Sensoria will be a regularly occurring project of capture, of both the social and aesthetic dimensions of the New York art world, towards an ecological understanding of the scene as a living coral reef; these sensorial guided tours of affect, chance, and embodied presence will be relayed as […]
All three tales in Super Host are witty, moving, and beautifully written, but it’s Emma Easton’s that raises the most provocative questions about the often torturous relationship between an artist and her work
Combining the roles of curator and participating artist, Zak Kitnick, in collaboration with gallery director Meredith Rosen swept an engaging mix of genres into a pair of compact exhibition rooms matching their choices to an installation plan that emphasizes each piece’s distance from the floor relevant to the human body.
Despite Matthew Wong’s relatively banal subject matter – essentially, nature – the way it is handled in the exhibition on view at Cheim and Read elevates the art and makes it enthralling, like secrets gently whispered.
This month we’re recommending all the excellent group shows, especially the ones where old favorites hang next to younger artists who weren’t on our radar.
Physical and psychological effects of natural and man-made disasters are the subject of Alyssa Fanning’s delicate draawings, on view at Platform Project Space in DUMBO.
Karin Davie’s new sense of self
Contributed by Sharon Butler/ At Chart, Karin Davie, in her first NYC show since 2007, has moved with elegant decisiveness from pop-inflected stripes, slapdash and dripping, to wide, sine-wave brushstrokes ...
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide: September 2021
Welcome to the Two Coats of Paint painting-centric guide to gallery exhibitions in New York City. There's a lot to see this month. We're in the thick of hurricane ...
Caroline Kent: A set of symbols
Contributed by Jonathan Goodman / Caroline Kent, a painter based in Chicago, is having her first show at Casey Kaplan. She makes schematic abstract paintings, which have aspects of doubled ...
Nathaniel Robinson’s train of thought
Contributed by Sharon Butler / When Nathaniel Robinson takes the train from Brewster, New York, down to the city, he snaps pictures along the way. Hastily cropped and blurry in ...
Selected paintings from SPRING/BREAK NYC 2021
Contributed by Fay Sanders and Bob Szantyr / This year much of the work at Spring/Break is engaged with our tenuous grasp on truth, along with themes of Catholic ...
Did I do that? Thirty Years of Adjunct Teaching
This excerpt is from a book Peter Dudek is writing about his years in academia, teaching art. Many of the conversations and stories came about in class, during faculty meetings ...
Art and TV: Professor T, an extraordinary burst of mind
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Boy did the otherwise on-the-mark Guardian television critic Lucy Mangan get it wrong. In her 2017 review of the Flemish detective series Professor T, ...
The new theatrical space of Amy Lincoln
Contributed by Jason Andrew / Amy Lincoln’s soaring trajectory has locked in the natural world, the phenomena within it, and the epic world of myth. Ten new paintings now on ...
About an image, without an image: Reflections on looking at a painting
Contributed by Paul D’Agostino / Not long ago, an acquaintance on social media posted an image of a recent painting in one of those temporary-story-style series of images, and ...
Fiction: The Real, the Fake, and the Ugly
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / What a mess. And today was doomsday. Eliza Netsua couldn’t get back to sleep, so she dragged herself out of bed at five a.m. Her ...
Seriously loved the Thomas Nozkowski show @pacegallery of his last paintings. Some are less richly painted than others, giving a glimpse into his process. Within the unity of size and palette, so much invention to the end. Painting is a lifelong process.
#contemporarypainting #thomasnozkowski #abstractpainting #influentialpainters #handmadepaintings
Brilliant Oliver Mosset show @spencerbrownstonegallery “Rauschenberg White” riffs on the all white multi-panel paintings Rauschenberg made in 1951 and reimagines them as Instagram-ready, 22-inch squares. Rauschenberg (and later his studio assistant Brice Marden) painted them with rollers and house paint. Mosset’s look like they have been painted with gesso primer and a soft, wide brush 💥💥
#olivermosset #rauschenberg #monochromepainting #contemporarypainting #paintingsofinstagram #whitepainting #bricemarden #BMPT
Great to see @megatkinsonstudio @my.pet.ram this afternoon. Fairytale figurative? Black cats, witches, and magic potions. Female archetypes, folklore references, and her signature abstract pattern. Looks good Meg 💥 Swipe for a great flower detail.
#contemporarypainting #folklorepainting #cronepainting #nycgallery #megatkinson
A couple @tamaragonzales drawings from a wall of engaging small work, hung salon-style opposite the looser large-scale paintings in her show @klausgallery ❤️❤️
#drawing #sketchbooks #tamaragonzales #itinerantartist
Odd two-person combo @morgan_presents (located in @pierogigallery old space). Cool, calm, analytical @odiliodita paired with @sam_jablon, whose loose, hysterical painting style is so BAD BAD BAD. Or is it?
It turns out that this new gallery won’t represent artists, but plans to invite pairs of artists to create exhibitions that offer a new perspective into their practices.
#contemporarypainting #samjablon #odilidonaldodita #textbasedart #abstraction #morganpresents
New post, link in profile / Nathaniel Robinson’s train of thought / Contributed by Sharon Butler / When Nathaniel Robinson takes the train from Brewster, New York, down to the city, he snaps pictures along the way. Hastily cropped and blurry in some areas, these images have become the basis for a series of sublime paintings on view at Devening Projects in Chicago…. link in profile
#contemporarypainting #nathanielrobinson #artistsconversation #deveningprojects #landscapepaintingnow