Award-winning NYC blogazine, primarily about painting
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
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.
Sue Havens’ history – her searching and sometimes painful life experiences and her adventurousness in the studio – are distinctly encoded, like a unique double helix of molecular structure, in the complex work she has produced this past year.
Carl D’Alvia’s show at Hesse Flatow, “Sometimes Sculpture Deserves a Break,” is a playful, irony-laden take on the hyper-masculine minimalist sculpture canon.
Thoughts on that small Yuskavage painting
A twelve-inch canvas Lisa Yuskavage included in her exhibition at David Zwirner upstages the entire show and much of the work the artist has exhibited to date.
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide: October 2021
Welcome to the Two Coats of Paint painting-centric guide to gallery exhibitions in New York City.
Bad Boyfriends and Pink Bathers : A conversation with Janice Nowinski
Contributed by Sangram Majumdar / On the occasion of her first exhibition, beautifully installed at Thomas Erben Gallery, Janice Nowinski and I talked about how time presents itself in every ...
Elizabeth Murray in Buffalo and for the ages
Contributed by Dana Tyrrell / From 1965 to 1967, Elizabeth Murray – a towering presence in contemporary painting who died in 2007 – lived and worked in Buffalo, New York ...
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, ...
Transmitter: Painting’s undying versatility
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Painting is persistently and emphatically alive and well. Indeed, the notion that it is dead – or, more kindly, moribund – is so vapid and ...
Line: Chance drips, hesitant brushstrokes, calligraphic gestures, notional timelines, yarn, and builder’s caulk
Contributed by Sharon Butler / "Walk the Line" at Platform Project Space in DUMBO presents a variety of line, from chance drips, hesitant brushstrokes, spontaneous calligraphic gestures, and notional timelines ...
Transformation: Douglas Melini’s new work at Miles McEnery
Contributed by Sharon Butler / When I saw Douglas Melini’s new work at Miles McEnery (on view until October 16), I was surprised how much it had changed since I ...
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 ...
Stacy Lynn Waddell: Moving backwards to jump ahead
Contributed by Jonathan Goodman / In “Mettle,” Stacy Lynn Waddell’s expansive show at Candice Madey, the artist embraces different cultures throughout the world: Malian life in the 1960s; nineteenth-century American ...
On view @ny_studioschool “Lennart Anderson: A Retrospective,” through November 28, 2021. @lennartanderson_painter
“Lennart Anderson (1928-2015) was an American painter renowned for his mastery of tone, color and composition, place of high regard within the artistic community, and teaching career that deeply influenced future generations of painters. The first major survey of the esteemed artist’s work since his death, this exhibition features over thirty paintings spanning a period of over six decades.
“Curated by Graham Nickson and Rachel Rickert in collaboration with the artist’s estate, the exhibition features works from both public and private collections as well as Anderson’s gallery, Leigh Morse Fine Arts. Ranging from figurative works like Mrs. Suzy Peterson (1959) to the unfinished painting Three Nymphs on a Bluff left on his easel in 2015, the exhibition brings together a variety of genres, such as the human form, still life, portrait, landscape, and streetscape. Viewed together, the works attest to Anderson’s lifelong interest in the interplay of tone, color, and light. Speaking with Jennifer Samet in 2002, Anderson explained, ‘When you look at nature from a distance, you can see how it all fits together. There is a harmony, and that is what interests me.’ The presentation also demonstrates the singular approach that informed his artmaking, which defied trends such as Abstract Expressionism.”
#lennartanderson #representationalpainting #retrospectiveexhibition #GrahamNickson #RachelRickert #twocoatssponsor
New post, link in profile / Thoughts on that small Yuskavage painting / Contributed by Peter Malone / A twelve-inch canvas included in Lisa Yuskavage’s exhibition at David Zwirner had the effect of upstaging the entire show and much of the work the artist has exhibited to date. Titled, The Fuck You Painting (2020), it depicts an incensed young woman projecting two raised middle fingers toward the picture plane. Its impressive realism is an outlier for an artist who prefers painting cartoonish nymphs. It is also an outlier in that unlike the typical Yuskavage tableau, it addresses the viewer directly. And yet what’s most fascinating about it is how its narrative candor is muddled by adjusting the syntax in the title. Link in profile
#lisayuskavage #davidzwirner #figurativepainting #contemporarypainting #nycgalleries
Stopped by to see @stevehicksstudio during @artsgowanus. He’s making some interesting moves: color, shape, grid. Goodbye, looping line!
#gowanusopenstudios #gos2021 #abstractpainting #brooklynartist
Work in progress at Christina Massey’s studio during @artsgowanus. She repurposes cans and other bits of aluminum, combining them with canvas and glass forms in vibrant undulating organic forms. Catch Christina’s conversations on Clubhouse in Pep Talks for Artists on Wednesdays at noon.
#gowanusopenstudios #gos2021 #paintingsculpture #artonclubhouse #brooklynartist #peptalksforartists
Two Coats Conversation Monday, October 18, 11:30am (edt) Live, not recorded! On @clubhouse
“Going to the Meadow,” A conversation with @rhillstudio and @uwarchol about “Going to the Meadow,” on view at @artyardcenter through December 30. They have invited 16 artists to collaborate on an exhibition that prioritizes process over outcome, the collective over the individual, play over work. “This exhibition invites artists from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to be in residence at ArtYard while engaging in tactile, verbal, and conceptual dialogues with one another. They begin with the question: What is it we collectively care about?”
#twocoatsonclubhouse #artistsconversations #contemporaryart #collaborativeprojects
Wonderful figurative paintings pieced together with old wallpaper pieces and screen printing, in Jessica Weiss’s Bond Street studio during Gowanus Open Studios. Gently hopeful, post pandemic.
#jessicaweiss #gowanusopenstudios #gos2021 #contemporarypainting #collage