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Smooth or Crunchy Redux, Jennifer Wynne Reeves
This was originally posted in March, sadly the artist passed away this past week. I find her work exciting and unpredictable and gloopy and gloppy and all the things that make painting wonderful....
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Kiki Smith in San Gimignano, in three parts
Kiki Smith, Untitled, 2014, Bronze with patina - courtesy of the Galleria ContinuaIt was a huge surprise to run into this Kiki Smith show Path at Galleria Continua in the small walled town of San...
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Kiki Smith in San Gimigano part II
The next gallery of her work had historically been used as a storage space, it was tucked at the top of a hotel. The stained glass works and the drawings on nepalese paper both benefitted from this...
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Kiki Smith, Part III
The last gallery was the most traditional space with large white walls. This gallery had a group of jacquard tapestries, similar to the NYC show and some bronze wall works. After the intimacy and...
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Sylvia Plimack Mangold, It's just the Tree
Sylvia Plimack Mangold has work up in a group show at Alexander and Bonin. She was also interviewed by Alex Bacon for the Brooklyn Rail. They talk about her process, her use of tape her evolution as a...
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Chaim Soutines Urgency
James Klam video blogs his visit to the Chaim Soutine exhibition at Paul Kasmin. David Carbone wrote Sensuous Orgies of Luminous Writhing Paint: Chaim Soutine Still Lifes for Artcritical.There is...
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Artemisia's Judith
I will miss stopping by to see this paintingArtemsia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1614-20, 199 x 162 cm, Oil on canvas
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Martin Kippenberg, Sehr Gut / Very Good
This is a repost from June 2013, a great show worth a second look.The breadth of Martin Kippenberger is on view at Hamburger Bahnof in Berlin. SEHR GUT/VERY GOOD is a solo exhibition of 300 works....
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Dan Combs on 'All-Overness' in painting
Dan Combs explains why all-overness rather than representation is what makes a painting a paintingMy old friend, the philistine, is most impressed by realist painting. “Why can’t you paint a tree that...
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Painting as a Super Model, Franklin Evans
Here are some images from Franklin Evans show at Ameringer McEnery Yohe. His work continues to expand into larger and larger installations. James Kalm did a quick walkthrough for JamesKalmRoughCut that...
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Lucio Fontana in Paris
The Museum of Modern Art in Paris has a Lucio Fontana retrospective up this summer. Fontana's theory of Spatialism which was focused on light and real space in opposition to illusionistic space, the...
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Ed Paschke at Mary Boone
For artists growing up in Chicago the late Ed Paschke was as much a part of the landscape as the Sears Tower....although that's been renamed. Here are some images from the recent Mary Boone show.Ed...
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo at the Louvre
I couldn't stop thinking about Glenn Brown while looking at the work of 17th century painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo at the Louvre. I regret missing the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien show that paired...
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Simone Shubuck Redux
Here's a sweet painting from Simone Shubuck's show Do You Like Old Things or New Things That Look Old?. Ellen C. Caldwell reviewed the show for New American Painting. (Reposted from July 10, 2013)
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Kadar Brock at Diet Gallery
In an interview with Alex Brown Kardar Brock mentioned that basic labor was a major component of his work, relating his process to the process of building or graffiti clean up. It's a refreshing blue...
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Jeremiah Delhome's Ink on carbon paper
Jeremiah Delhome's invented forms on carbon paper can't help but appeal to the iconophile in me. Delhome cuts the carbon paper and assembles the shapes, the texture of the carbon paper is modified by...
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Molly Herman at the Painting Center
Molly Herman: Lingua FrancaMolly Herman explains her approach to painting in conjunction with her show at the Painting Centermy own work aims to plainly reveal process, as with my “lozenge paintings”...
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Van Gogh's Sturdy Lines
I love thinking about Van Gogh's decisions when he made his ink drawings and the paintings below. Which mark represents grass, what line will convey the olive tree, hundreds of decisions are evident in...
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Van Gogh's Ink Drawings
As long as I brought them up I thought I'd better post a couple of Van Gogh's ink drawings too. I've returned to his drawings throughout my career, since my first opportunity to see some of them over...
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