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Artist Interview: Gladys Nilsson
Nicole Rudick interviewed Gladys Nilsson for the Paris Review in November. They talk about Seurat, Pollock, German Expressionism, classical beauty, and of course her work. Nilsson speaks of the new...
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Paul Wackers Still Life Paintings
I was looking for a fake Rubber/Fig Tree for my classroom yesterday, for still life material. Somehow it led me to Paul Wackers work which was at Eleanor Harwood in San Francisco recently. They're a...
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Carrie Alter's Honesty, Artist Interview
Carrie Alter was interviewed by Shana Dumont Garr's for Burnaway. Garr talked about the importance of honesty in developing a body of work, her process, health, aging and fighting for your work....
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Color, Form and Space, Julian Stanczak
The 1970's looks pretty good in these works exhibited at Mitchell-Innes & Nash last fall. Stanczak was a student of Joseph Albers according to O.C. Yerebakan in his review for Art Observed....
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Saira McLaren
Saira McLaren, Untitled (Reflection), 2014, pigments on raw canvas, 36 x 48 inchesat Sargents Daughters
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Dali and Picasso
It's a Dali but looks like a Picasso. It was my first visit to the Dali Museum but I'd recommend the Dali's at the Art Institute of Chicago and MOMA.Still Life: Sandia, 1924 Salvador DaliFemme dans un...
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Jonas Wood's new work
Jonas Wood, Self Portrait with Momo, 2014, oil and acrylic on canvas, 65 x 65 inchesJonas Wood, Blue Rug Still Life, 2014, oil and acrylic on canvas, 105 x 103 inchesJonas Wood, Maritime Hotel Pot with...
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The Geometry of Dirt, Helen O'Leary
William Eckhardt Kohler reviewed Helen O'Leary's show at the Irish Art Center. Here are a couple of images, check out the review here. Kohler writesFrom the point of view of narrative, the process of...
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Philip Taaffe's new work
Paul Laster interviewed Philip Taaffe for TimeOutNY about his new work which was inspired by the war in Syria. When asked what painting means to him Taaffe replied "...I often think of it as a...
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Jiri Georg Dokoupil at Paul Kasmin
Jiri Georg Dokoupil's first show in twenty-five years is a group of large scale process based paintings at Paul Kasmin. Working with soap-lye enriched with metallic pigments and diamond dust, Dokoupil...
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Kathy Laio, artist interview
Charles White interviewed Kathy Laio for his blog MW Capacity. They talk about her start in the field, her daily inspirations and influences. In response to the question about the role of drawing in...
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Pears and Grapes at the Met
Peter Schjeldahl refers to the Mets Cubism show as an institutional organ transplant, instantly correcting the Met's congenitally weak representation of the ur-twentieth-century art movement.Here are...
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Works on Paper, Sylvia Plimack Mangold and Robert Mangold
What's different about painting on paper? For those of us that work on both paper and canvas the difference is enormous, but I'm not convinced that translates to the viewer. Sylvia Plimack Mangold and...
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David Aylsworth
David Aylsworth Fine, Fin and Haddie 2014 oil on canvas 78" x 84"In an interview with (standard) INTERVIEW Aylsworth talk about a recent show that made an impressionAbout a year ago, I saw an...
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Julian Brown, Comic Relief
Contemporary British Painters at Saint Marylebone Parish Church in London exhibited 42 British Painters. That's where I found Julian Brown, here are a couple of his paintings and a link to his website....
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Shinique Smith at the MFA Boston
Smiths bold and vaporous paintings picked up a cold cold visit to Boston. As too often happens the camera flattens out the surface turning my photographs of paintings into graphic images. It was the...
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Alex Katz at the MFA
This series of Alex Katz cut-outs was at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. I was reminded of it in Chelsea this past week when I saw another show of cutouts. The flatness of Katz's pop style paintings is...
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John Miller's Cut Outs
John Miller's frieze paintings of pedestrians wraps the room much like Alex Katz paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. I was struck by the object-ness of Miller's paintings. They're mounted on...
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Basquiat at MOMA
Glen Jean-Michel Basquiats painting from 1985 is still light years ahead of The Forever Now painting exhibition located just up the escalator at MOMA.
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Mamma Andersson, Behind the Curtain
Mamma Andersson's exhibition "Behind the Curtain" at David Zwirner was my favorite show in Chelsea last week. To say her work is inspired by film is an understatement, it felt like I walked into a film...
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