Catherine Story's relationship with film, Artist Interview
Catherine Story is also included in the Tate's Painting Now: Five Contemporary Artists. The Guardian's Nicholas Wroe and Simon Grant interviewed each artist for their article Why Painting Still...
View ArticleRichard Long and James Turrell in Las Vegas
There is more to Las Vegas than casinos and second hand smoke, thankfully. The casinos have been collecting some impressive public art, although there's some less impressive ones too. I'll admit the...
View ArticleSimon Ling, That's Live!
I paint in the street because the texture of decision-making is different. It feels sharper and healthier and quicker. One day, I saw a group of schoolkids approaching and I thought:"Here we go." But...
View ArticleJules Olitski on a small scale
Freedman Art has an exhibition of Jules Olitski's marvelous material explorations, Jules Olitski On An Intimate Scale... and Friends. The show of thirty small-scale paintings includes samples from...
View ArticleMarvelous clouds, at Lesley Heller
Tell me, you enigmatic man, whom do you love the most? Your father, yourmother, your sister or your brother?— I have neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor brother.Your friends?— You’re using a...
View ArticleArtist Interview, Andy Parkinson
Valerie Brennan interviewed Andy Parkinson for her blog Studio Critical. They discussed his studio, his work schedule and of course his process. In response to Brennan's question about how the work...
View ArticleArtist Interview, John O'Conner's Metamorphosis
John O'Conner's recent show at PiergoThe Machine and the Ghost. Ridley Howard interviewed O'Conner for Burnaway. Howard asked O'Conner's if his show sought to .. frame something about contemporary...
View ArticleKara Walker, Dust Jackets for the Niggerati
Camden Arts Center is hosting an exhibition by Kara Walker that includes her wall samplers along with a video installation and these large graphite drawings. Dust Jackets for the Niggerati were...
View ArticleHans Hoffman at Ameringer McEnery Yohe
Hans Hoffman has been getting his due over the past couple of years including this show at Ameringer McEnery Yohe. One of the most influential abstract expressionist artists and educators, Hoffman's...
View ArticleArtist Interview, David Mann
Alicia DeBrincat interviewed David Mann for Artfile Magazine. They discussed his work being between abstraction and figuration and his inspiration. DeBrincat asked about being inspired by images from...
View ArticleJulie Evans, Mylar Constructions
Anne Russinoff at Gallery Travels posted about the Julie Evans show that just wrapped up at Winkleman GalleryJulie Evans, LL, 2012Julie Evans, Installation viewJulie Evans, Swishbone #2, 2011Julie...
View ArticleEberhard Havekost
Since the early 90’s, the german artist’s entire output involves reworking preexistent images – photos clipped from newspapers or magazines images drawn from film or video, personal shots – without...
View ArticleWoman on the Walls in Wynwood
Miss Van at work on her wall. (photo © Martha Cooper for Wynwood Walls)Jaime Rojo and Steven Harrington covered the Wynwood Districts Woman on the Walls for the Huffington Post. Since 2009 the outdoor...
View ArticleBetween Painting and Weaving, Hildur Asgeirsdottir Jonsson
Two Coats of Paint posted on The Tang Museums exhibition of Hildur Asgeirsdottir Jonsson's work. Known for merging painting and weaving the exhibition includes work from the past five years. Beginning...
View ArticleJeff Conefry's Cast, Stripe 2
Donna Mintz reviewed an abstraction exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery. Jeff Conefry's small cast paintings caught my eye. Mintz writes... a time-intensive paint handling, as in “cast, stripe 2” in...
View ArticleAlison Elizabeth Taylor's Marquetry and Interview
Here are a couple of works from Alison Elizabeth Taylor's exhibition at James Cohen Gallery. Roberta Smith wrote“Silver Fox” is an elegant, playful riff on wood grain made from various kinds of veneer...
View ArticleSteve Mumford's Guantanamo drawings
The Snow Leopard, Steve Mumford's exhibition at Postmasters came from a commission by Harpers Magazine to go to Guantanamo. According to the press release He made two trips in February and May 2013....
View ArticleSuzanne Caporael's understated collages
Suzanne Caporael's Enough Is Plenty was a quiet show. Caporael's focus is the hierarchy of perception.Will Heinrich writes for the GalleristNYThere are worse things you could do with The New York Times...
View ArticleRene Magritte, good solid fun!
Here are some images from the Magritte survey at MOMA. Holland Cotter called the show good solid fun. Cotter writes...he had ideas. He was a sophisticated trickster, a bourgeois gentilhomme with a geek...
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