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Sigmar Polke at MOMA
Jerry Saltz reviewed the Sigmar Polke retrospective at MOMA for Vulture. Saltz writes that its great to see so much of Polke's work together he also points out the lack of understanding of painting by...
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Dona Nelson's liberation of painting
Dona Nelson's exhibition, Phigor, at Thomas Erben Gallery has been extended through May. It was great to see her two sided paintings included in the Whitney Biennial. Roberta Smith sings her praises in...
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April Gornik's Green Shade
April Gornik, Green Shade, 2012, oil on linen, 72 x 108 inchesHere are a couple of images from April Gornik's exhibition at Danese/Corey. There are also some beautiful charcoal drawings in the show....
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Katie Armstrong's hand drawn animations
Katie Armstrong's sumi ink drawings and hand drawn animations are riveting. I can't stop, watch here and hereKatie Armstrong, Black Eye, 2013, sumi ink on paper, 17 x 14 inchesKatie Armstrong, Im...
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Chris Martin and joy, artist interview
Jennifer Samet interview Chris Martin for Hyperallergic. They talk about the impact of his environment, his education as a painter, particularly during the time when painting was so narrowly defined,...
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Love Your Work, Rochelle Feinstein
Will Heinrich writes for the NYGalleristInside the gallery is Love Vibe, a single installation of six oil paintings, each just over six feet square, showing the same speech balloon in reverse against...
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Robert Mangold's Framed Squares
Robert Mangold, what's not to love? Roberta Smith reviewed his recent show at Pace Gallery for the NY TimesFor over five decades, Mr. Mangold has been mining an extremely spare combination of shape,...
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Virginia Wagner on Anslem Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer, Aschenblume (Ash Flower), 2004, Oil, acrylic and emulsion on canvas, 95 5/8 x 100 7/8 inchesVirginia Wagner writes about Anselm Kiefer's painting Ash Flower for the blog Painters on...
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Jackie Saccoccio, blasted, dripped, oozed and poured
Here are some images from Jackie Saccoccio's show at Eleven Rivington. I posted a link to an interview with the artist back in May 2013 here, Elizabeth Condon posted some images on her blog Raggedy...
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A tragically under-utilized studio tool, Stephen Maine, Artist Interview
As a follow up to the recent Stephen Maine post here is an interview with Valerie Brennan at Studio Critical. They talk about his current work, his working methodology and his relationship to...
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Laura Sharp Wilson's materials
I saw a some of Laura Sharp Wilson's paintings at McKenzie before this show, they reminded me of early Lari Pittman but on a much smaller scale. I found their materiality and collage aesthetic more...
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Eleanor Ray in Florence
Eleanor Ray's new show at Steven Harvey included paintings of Florence, actually the view from right down the street from where I am writing this. Digging into her bio a bit I find that she's also...
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"Flee, for if your eyes are petrified in amazement, she will turn you to stone"
Some paintings just blow my socks off and this one always does. Commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte and presented as a gift to Ferdinado l de'Medici. Some gift! Caravaggio's Medusa,...
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David Humphrey settings and protagonists
For those of you that saw David Humphrey's show at Protocol in the spring you might find Craig Drennen's interview with Humphrey interesting since they talk about that exhibition as well as his origins...
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Reed Anderson's process
Anderson describes his process as additive and self-generating. He begins the cut paintings by screen-printing or wood block printing patches or bands of color onto the base paper before cutting oval...
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Landscapes with Water, Dan Attoe
Dan Attoe, Surfers in the Moonlight, 2, 2013, oil on canvas over MDF, 31 x 31 cmAna Finel Honigman reviewed Dan Attoe at Peres for Frieze MagazineThe tiny figures floating and pushing past each in...
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As Sweet As It Gets, Michael Borreman
Michael Borremans's paintings function like “a knife in the eye.....In his larger oil paintings, figures appear alone in a moment of immobility or introverted action. Typically, there is no eye contact...
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Nicole Eisenman Career Survey
Here are a couple of images from Dear Nemesis a career survey of Nicole Eisenman at the Contemporary Art Museum St. LouisNicole Eisenman, CAM St. LouisNicole EisenmanNicole Eisenman
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Leda and the Swan
A sudden blow: the great wings beating stillAbove the staggering girl, her thighs caressedBy the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.—William Butler...
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Matisse, reviewed by TJ Clark
Here are more images from the Matisse show in London. T.J. Clark reviews the show for London Review of Books I believe Matisse was right when he told his daughter that he had put into his late work...
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