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Molly Zuckerman Hartung at the Whitney
There are a few more paintings and drawings I'll post over the next couple of days from the Whitney Biennial. Chicago artist Molly Zuckerman-Hartung's painting Notley was one of many stand out...
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Charline von Heyl at the Whitney
Charline von Heyl, Folk Tales, 2013, acrylic, ink, wax, charcoal, collage on paper
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Piero della Francesca at the Met
Four sweet Piero della Francesco paintings made up a small but wonderful exhibition at the Met Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters. Thomas Micchelli reviewed the show for HyperallergicThough...
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James Sienna, Artist Interview
Julia Schwartz interviewed James Sienna for Figure/Ground Communication. It's a wide ranging interview covering ground from Sienna drawing when he was ten, his take on modernism and Ellsworth Kelly,...
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Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas at the National Gallery
The National Gallery's exhibition Degas/Cassatt opens in a couple of week. The exhibition brings together seventy works from the perioid in the 1880's when Degas and Cassatt's artistic dialogue was at...
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Romare Bearden at DC Moore
DC Moore has a Romare Bearden exhibition up through April it includes some paintings but its the collages that remain as fresh and inventive today as when they were made. Romare Bearden, Big Sister,...
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Nearly Haptic, Gary Stephan
Stephan claims his paintings are “designed to be disappointing” as they are ultimately only valuable at the level of construction with the viewer. It is a nearly haptic experience, unraveling the...
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Joanne Greenbaum's new paintings
I posted Joan Smith's interview with Joanne Greenbaum back in October. Greenbaum said I don't have a real philosophy but I am a worker. That philosophy is definitely evident in her new show at Rachel...
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Arnold Mesches, Artist Interview
Arnold Mesches, Eternal ReturnWhat is a typical day like in your studio? When do you arrive? Do you have a plan or do you dive right in?I don't "arrive", I'm actually already here in that we live and...
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Painting as a monument to thoughts, Kristin Calabrese
Kristin Calabrese was interviewed by Julia Schwartz, Figure/Ground Communication, at the beginning of the year. They talked about her work, her 'hole' series, source material, realism and artistic...
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Glenn Ligon's "Come Out"
Come Out, Glenn Ligon's show at Thomas Dane are silk screen paintings based on Steve Reich's "Come Out" 1966. Reich's taped-speech work used the voice of Daniel Hamm, one of the "Harlem Six", a group...
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Whistler's Nocturne
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (1875), by James McNeill Whistler
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El Anatusi in Florida
If you missed this show, Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui, when it was in Brooklyn you have another chance, it just opened at the Bass Museum. Working with discarded aluminum bottle...
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Drawing in Abstract Painting
Abstract Critical brings together ten artists who offer their thoughts about drawing in abstract painting.When I think about it, drawing seems to be an innately abstract act: reducing matter and ideas...
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MFA Shows at University of Florida
Here are images from the MFA shows of Carlene Munoz and Evie Woltil Richner, MFA Candidates in the School of Art + Art History at University of Florida.Carlene Munoz, Vestigios Series Installation at...
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Ali Banisadr's Motherboard
David Cohen reviews the curious paintings of Ali Banisadr's for Art Critical.Despite the figuration and the action, and the traditional heaven-and-earth, figure-ground compositional structures, these...
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Give More Than You Can Take, Jim Hodges at the Walker
Jim Hodges, Give More Than You Can Take is up at the Walker Art Center. Dancia Willard Sachs reviews the show for Daily ServingHodges’ commitment to drawing as his medium is evident throughout the...
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Nina Murdock redux, Light, Space, Architecture
This is a repost from March 2013Andrew 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...
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The Sky is On the Floor, Alexander Kroll
Alexander Kroll's exhibition The Sky is On the Floor is up at Fredrick Snitzer Gallery in Miami. His work went through some major transformations a couple years ago, shifting into a more direct...
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Artist Interview, Susanna Coffey
I work on these for a very long time and sometimes it doesn't seem like it...they take about a year to do at least...they go through lots of changes...I'm very athletic in my destruction of them along...
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