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Unsettled Looking, Anna Plesset
Anna Plesset's exhibition at Untitled A Still Life is, according to Roberta Smith (NY Times), ablend of conceptual art and trompe l'oeil.... that unsettles the act of looking. Plesset discusses the...
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Passing through the Opposite, R.H. Quaytman
R.H. Quaytman's exhibition Passing through the opposite of What it Approaches, Chapter 25 at the Renaissance Society of Chicago is an installation in Chapters. Quaytman was interviewed by Paulina...
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Thomas Nozkowski and making paintings
Tyler Green interviews Thomas Nozkowski for The MAN Podcast in part to celebrate the opening of Nozkowski's show at Pace Gallery. They talk about making Nozkowski paintings, walking in the woods and...
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In the moment of feeling myself seeing, Artist Interview, Douglas Witmer
Douglas Witmer is interviewed by Studio Critical as he's moving into a new studio and reflects on his studio space, the nature of light and his studio process.Seeing often gets connected to thinking...
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Margaret Kilgallen, a brief look
Art 21 released or re-released a documentary video on Margaret Kilgallen, who passed away in 2001. Margaret Kilgallen: Heroines features Kilgallen and her husband, artist Barry McGee tagging.
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Paper Like Skin - Zarina
Kyle Chayka provides an introduction to Zarina's exhibition at the Guggenheim. Steeped in physical space and political boundaries her work tells an alternative history of modernist abstraction.Geeti...
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Shinique Smith's BOLD LOVE
I have to admit Shinique Smith's sculptural forms were more interesting to me than her paintings. They're fully luscious, sexy bulbous forms - like a Ruben's girl, all wrapped up. Nadiah Fellah...
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Mother Night, Richard Hull's new paintings
Hull's new paintings read like portraits of feelings rather than people. The gallery describes his process as a layering of melted beeswax to the canvas prior to painting, so the wax serves as a ground...
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Studio visit with Tom Burckhardt
Paul Behnke, of Structure and Imagery, has a studio visit with Tom Burckhardt. There is so much pleasure involved in seeing another painters studio, its addictive. For more on Burckhardt I posted on...
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Jim Lambie Shaved Ice
The Modern Institute in Glasglow is exhibiting Jim Lambie's Shaved Ice. The shift from the tape floor installation to ladders and mirrors engages the space of the gallery and implicates the viewer...
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Proxility and Painting, The Brooklyn Rail
Nancy Princenthal is the guest art editor for the Brooklyn Rail. Princenthal invited painters to address what she refers to what she sees as the dominance of verbal language in relation to visuality....
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Thomas Lawson, Overcoming, at the Hammer
Thomas Lawson gave a lecture a the Hammer Museum which is reported on by the blog Painting in LA some of Lawson's remarks are here. I'm hoping the Hammer posts the podcast soon, I'll post the link...
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in nature, Sandy Walker's new paintings at Elizabeth Harris
Sandy Walker writes about the paintings in his current show at Elizabeth Harris GalleryMy work is often about place and more recently about the human in nature. For many years I have spent significant...
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Verne Dawson, Apalachicola to Zirconia
Verne Dawson's new show, Apalachicola to Zirconia is at Victoria Miro in London. The work in the show is inspired by Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto's expedition through the American Southeast...
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Jeffrey Courtland Jones and the slow process of viewing
The truth is I don’t make white paintings and never have. The viewer has to have an intimate and singularly experience – one that is more akin to reading a worn paperback of poetry than the deafening...
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Fallen Fruit, John Korner and what to believe
Danish artist John Korner had a show at the beginning of the year at Victoria Miro. The mutable nature of his landscapes remind me of heat in Florida when shapes shift and lose their edges. Martin...
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Artist Interview - Jered Sprecher
Valerie Brennan of Studio Critical interviewed Jered Sprecher about his studio practice. I posted images from his show in November so you can find more images here.Paintings usually start from two...
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Nina Murdoch - Light, Space, Architecture
Andrew Lambirth wrote an essay for Nina Murdoch's exhibition catalogue.Her working practice is as much a process of excavation and removal as it is of application. She is happy to exploit chance in her...
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Tie-Dye in the Wilderness, Artist Interview, Lisa Sanditz
Jacquelyn Gleisner interviewed Lisa Sanditz for Art 21. They talk about painting, youth, money and cheeseburgers.None of the paintings are strictly imaginative. They are often exaggerated, pushing...
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Smooth or crunchy, Artist Interview - Jennifer Reeves
Jennifer Reeves was interview by Julia Schwartz for Figure Ground, they discussed her process and her thinking about narrative painting. I posted images of Reeves most recent show at Bravin Lee...
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