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For the Love of Gene Davis, Polly Apfelbaum
The original installers of “Franklin’s Footpath,” immersed in Apfelbaum’s work.Noreen Kress reviews "For the Love of Gene Davis" a two person show at Temple Contemporary. The exhibition of Polly...
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Faster than an Anvil
Just when I think comics have disappeared from painting, they pop up. "Everything falls faster than an anvil" at Pace London
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Glenn Brown's Grisaille Paintings
Continuing to mine art history Glenn Brown has a new show up at Gagosian. Nan Goldin, also mining the past has a show up in Rome (pictures from that tomorrow). I prefer Browns grisaille paintings in...
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Nan Goldin and the Louvre
I know she's not a painter but Nan Goldin's Scopophilia at Gagosian in Rome mines paintings history. Goldin was provided access to the Louvre Museum's collection of painting and sculpture over several...
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Blingo, Kay Rosen's new work
“Vertical does not trump horizontal; nor upright, prostrate. Male does not trump female. Sculpture does not trump painting. The representation of both ODALISKS and OBELISKS throughout the history of...
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Space Without Space, Shirley Kaneda
Space Without Spaceis the title of Shirley Kaneda's new show at Galerie Richard. The fluctuating space in painting below, Cheerful Desolation, is a small taste of her long term project to visualize...
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Repentant Maddalena
This is my love of the week, Maestro della Maddalena's Repentant Magdalena and the Eight Stories of her Life, 1280-85. You just don't see hair shirts like this anymore.
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Fred Tomaselli, Artist Interview
Fred Tomaselli was interviewed by Paul Laster in advance of his exhibition at James Cohan Gallery. They discussed his incorporation of the New York Times into his studio work, what images attack him...
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Lynda Barry's Everything
Lynda Barry made a big impression on me when I was in art school. She was a visiting artist and as a member of the student group that brought her to campus I escorted her to the lecture hall to speak...
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Wayne Thiebaud, studio visit
Vonn Sumner had a studio visit with Wayne Thiebaud on the occasion of the exhibition Wayne Thiebaud: American Memories at The Laguna Art Museum. The exhibition ranges from 1959 to now, because like...
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Toyin Odutola's new work
Toyin Odutola is a busy woman, besides recent residencies in Florida at Flying Horse Press, she just opened Like the Sea is a new exhibition at Jack Shainman. This work focuses on her brothers.Odutola...
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Another Way of Knowing, Leslie Baum
Leslie Baum, Another Way of Knowing, 2013John Yau writes about his studio visit with Leslie Baum for Hyperallergic. It's an interesting read and I appreciate his work as he puzzles, pun intended, his...
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Are your motives pure? A Survey of Surfing, Raymond Pettibon
Raymond Pettibon is one of a few artists that gives surfing it's due. Venus Over Manhattan had a survey of his surfing drawings and paintings from 1985-2013 in india ink, watercolor and acrylics.No...
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Redux, John Zurier, Artist Interview
Almost one year ago today...Each painting has to be very, very natural and have its own plane and light to it, and its own composition. The brush stroke is about finding what's enough, and what's...
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Day by Day, Peter Dreher's project
Peter Dreher's exhibition Day by Day, Good Day was at Koenig and Clinton this spring. The exhibition contained paintings from 1974-2013, paintings of a single water class that Dreher has painted...
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Steve Mumford's War Journals
Back in December I posted images from Steve Mumford's Guantanamo drawings. The Frist Center in Nashville has Steve Mumford’s War Journals, 2003-2013 a series of water color and gouache paintings...
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Isabelle Cornaro, Reproductions
Isabelle Cornaro exhibited ten Reproductions at Hannah Hoffman Gallery. According to the press release the paintings "based on her 16mm movie “Floues et Colorées” (Hazy and Colorful).....Reproductions...
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Alex Katz's Very Small Moves
Alex Katz, 45 years of portraits at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac includes over a hundred works from 1969 to 2014, I imagine he's not done yet. They have a terrific interview with Katz that includes...
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Neill Raitt and The Joy of Painting
Neill Raitt was nominated for the Caitlin Art Prize and was interviewed by Harriet Thorpe for FAD. Thorpe asked Raitt to describe the work he made for the Caitlin exhibitionThis series comes from ideas...
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Van Gogh at Musee D'Orsay
The crowds at the Musee D'Orsay will be thick but Van Gogh/Artaud: The Man Suicided by Society is only on view for a couple more weeks. Darran Anderson reviewed the show for Studio InternationalThe...
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