Kohler's Bed on the Floor
William Eckhardt Kohler reviews Matt Bollinger's show Bed on the Floor at Zurcher Studio. a slow moving katabasis; the dystopic descent of bottoming out, depression and loss of social standing.....
View ArticleArtist Interview - Lucinda Cobley
Virgina Billeaud Anderson interviews Lucinda Cobley for The Great God Pan is Dead.Lucinda Cobley is intellectually engaged with her process of painting and printing on transparent materials such as...
View ArticleBeautiful, known color, Helen Frankenthaler
Sharon Butler posts on the Helen Frankenthaler show at Gagosian Two Coats of Paint. Butler uncovered a link to a 1968 interview Frankenthaler did with Barbara Rose.MS. FRANKENTHALER: And I never really...
View ArticleTHe pure joy of working with paint, Rene Korten
Look and Listen posted Rene Korten's Yellow WorksStudio Critical interviewed Rene Korten in MayI make my paintings on wood panels. They used to be plywood or masonite, now I prefer MDF boards. The...
View ArticleJim Lee at Nicelle Beauchene
Please be Clean When You Do It, Jim Lee's show at Nicelle Beauchene was an end of the day surprise in the LES. Ridley Howard interviews Jim Lee for Burnaway.I try to slow people down…I want the viewer...
View ArticleSquare Vs Rectangle, Scott Wolniak - Artist Interview
Square Vs RectangleSteven Cox interviews Scott Wolniak for Hunted Projects That piece was an idea that I thought about for a long time and finally was able to make. It is based on life experience as a...
View ArticleHenry Taylor, human nature in painting
Notes on Looking reviews Henry Taylor's show at Blum and Poe in LA. Henry TaylorThe “We” Hours, 2012Acrylic on canvas73 1/2 x 131 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches
View ArticleArtist Interview: Richard Jackson's Big Ideas
The Conversation Podcast interviews Richard Jackson on the heals of "Ain't Painting a Pain" at the Orange County Museum. Jackson talks about making his work, maintaining his underground status and...
View ArticleIn Praise of Folly, Phyllis Bramson
Phyllis Bramson has a new show Lovesick Maladies: Troubled Hearts, Febered Dreams, (Sobs and Kisses) here are a couple of the paintings. Bramson was interviewed in the Distinguished Artists series of...
View ArticleLike butterfly wings, Christopher Deeton
Raphael Rubenstein writes about Deeton's paintings for BOMB MagazineEliciting beautiful tonal nuances from black paint alone, Deeton uses symmetry not to riff on the legacy of Morris Louis, but to...
View ArticleThe grid is a negative, Artist Interview, Michiel Ceuler
Steven Cox interviews Michiel Ceuler for Hunted Projects, the discussion ranges from the process of painting, his transition from representation, source material and of course the grid. The whole idea...
View ArticleSculpted Paintings and Painted Sculptures
Antonio Adriano Puleo show Sculpted Paintings & Painted Sculptures at the Luckman Gallery. More work is available on Puelo's website with great details. X reviews the show for the blog Painting in...
View ArticleBarry McGee's world at the ICA Boston
Barry McGee's mid career survey opened at the ICA Boston. Jaime Rojo and Steven Harrington provide a photo tour of the exhibition for the Huffington Post.Senior curator Jennell Porter provides a video...
View Article"Bop" and the Process of Painting
Art21 posted a film of made with Elizabeth Murray working on Bop in 2002-03. Here are a couple of stills from her working in the studio and Bop is below.“Usually what happens is when I start to really...
View ArticleRachel Malin at Edwad Thorpe
Painting Advanced at Edward Thorpe introduced me to a couple of new artists that I'll post individually. Here are a few works from Rachel Malin, a painting installation and two paintings that seem...
View ArticleMay I Draw, Judith Braun
Judith Braun's May I Draw is a beautiful show at Joe Sheftel Gallery. Braun has three constraints that bracket her approach to drawing - symmetry, abstraction and carbon medium. Braun captures a wide...
View ArticleUntitled (Shoe) 1968, Guston
It doesn't take much for me to share some Guston paintings, here are a couple of works from Philip Guston: A Centennial Exhibition at McKee Gallery.Untitled (Shoe) 1968 acrylic on panel 17 7/8 x 20...
View ArticleThe most limited and challenging medium, Artist Interview Elisabeth Condon
Joseph Kendrick interviewed Elisabeth Condon inPour It On Me for Electric Beef. Condon visited UF last year and enthusiasm for painting infused every conversation. Here's her response to Kenrick's...
View ArticleManifesting space, Katharina Grosse
As the De Pont Museum posits, the underlying question of Katharina Grosse's work is in what way can painting be manifest in space?Andrea Alessi reviews Katharina Grosses exhibition Two Younger Women...
View ArticleOptical buzz, Sanford Wurmfeld
Color is dangerous, or it is trivial, or it is both. (It is typical of prejudices to conflate the sinister and the superficial.) Either way, color is routinely excluded from the higher concerns of the...
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