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Put Down Your Stars, Clayton Colvin at Thatcher
They're not all that big but they're certainly sweet. Alabama based artist Clayton Colvin's exhibition Put Down Your Stars is at Margaret Thatcher Projects. In a March interview with Brian Edmonds for...
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Harvey Quaytman and the moral integrity of painting
I’m interested in making paintings with a one hundred percent guarantee of moral integrity, which I think is the only contribution a painter can make to social justice. I mean, if you are able to...
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Because I was working with paint on a canvas I was a painter, Artist...
Stick Shift Heaven, Robert Janitz's exhibition of gestural abstractions at Team Gallery included a series of paintings and a few objects. Noah Dillon interviewed Janitz for Art Critical. They discuss...
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Sarah Cain at Galerie Lelong
Cynthia Cruz reviewed Sarah Cain's exhibition Burning Bush for HyperallergicWalking into Sarah Cain’s current show,Burning Bush, at Galerie Lelong is to be restored. Walking into the gallery is like...
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Ain't Painting a Pain - redux
Ain't Painting a Pain, here's a repost on the Richard Jackson' exhibition in 2013.Sharon Butler has a great post on Two Coats of Paint about Richard Jackson's retrospective at the Orange County...
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Palimpsest: Unstable Paintings for Anxious Interiors, Kamrooz Aram
Kevin Jones reviewed Kamrooz Aram's exhibition at Green GalleryAdding to his reductionist repertoire of wiping off, sanding down, and scraping away the surfaces of his large canvases, Aram, in the...
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Quirky Scenes and Forms, Ena Swansea
David Cohen, Art Critical, reviewed Ena Swansea's exhibition at Friedman Benda. Working from photography and imagination, as well as remembered perception, Swansea brings sheer delight at the potential...
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More Alfredo Gisholt, Artist Interview
I posted on Alfredo Gisholt's exhibition at Cue last month, here's the link. Brett Baker interviewed Gisholt for Painter's Table.Alfredo Gisholt is a painter of “pictures,” a rarity in today's art...
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Ashley Bickerton, painting in Bali, Artist Interview
’2CWaE2P.G.2TbW 2014′, mixed media on jute, 219 x 244 cmNaima Morellli went to Bali to interview Ashley Bickerton for Trouble Magazine.The interview feels a bit like Morelli is wrestling a hydra but it...
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When art critics announce the death of painting over and over again, I always think that it is absolutely not true. The reason it’s not true is because those deep impulses are embedded in human...
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The Visual Element of the Pour, Elisabeth Condon, Artist Interview
Interview with Elisabeth Condon, April and May 2014Elisabeth Condon, White Cloud, 2014, mixed media on linen, 24 x 24 inchesWhat is a typical day like in your studio? When do you arrive? Do you have a...
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Monica Ursina Jaeger at Coleman Projects
Monica Ursina Jaeger's take on 1960's utopian schemes are on view at Coleman ProjectsMonica Ursina Jaeger,hideout.41 ink and pigment transfer on paper, 115 x 160 cm, 2012Monica Ursina Jaeger,displace,...
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Jasper Johns new work
Two paintings, ten drawings, two prints, Jasper Johns new work is at MOMA. Holland Cotter writesMore important than the images he chooses, though, is what he does with them, the formal and conceptual...
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Dropsy, there's something about this painting...
I'm ambivalent, about Austin Lee's show at Postmasters, but these two paintings, for better or worse, are sticking with me. Jerry Saltz refers to the work as Guston-meets-...
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Matisse in London
We had such an excellent Matisse show at the MET in 2012 (Saltz on Matisse) now its London's turn. The TATE Modern just opened Henri Matisse: The Cut-OutsHenri Matisse, Blue Nude II, 1952Henri Matisse,...
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Trenton Doyle Hancock, works on paper
Trenton Doyle Hancock, "Cave Scape 2, 2010, Ink on Paper, Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan GalleryThe Contemporary Art Museum in Houston has drawings, collage and works on paper in its survey...
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Julie Mehretu's Mogamma (A Painting in Four Parts)
Installation view of Julie Mehretu’s Mogamma (A Painting in Four Parts), 2012, at Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany. (Photo © Haupt & Binder)The High Museum of Art acquired Julie Mehretu's Mogamma (A...
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Walton Ford's Rhyndacus
Here's an installation view of Walton Ford's new paintings at Paul Kasmin, I'll post details tomorrow
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Walton Ford at Paul Kasmin Gallery
Walton Ford, Rhyndacus, 2014, watercolor, gouache and ink on paper, 119 1/4 x 60 1/4 inchesA Walton Ford painting can be like your favorite Wes Anderson film. Both are predicated on stylized nostalgia....
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Stephen Maine on Two Coats of Paint
Sharon Butler posted work from Stephen Maine's recent show at 490 Atlantic Gallery for Two Coats of Paint. Butler writes Although dubbed "halftone," Maine's new mid-scale paintings are not enlarged...
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