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Kerry James Marshall - in two parts
A survey of thirty-five years of Kerry James Marshall's paintings is a gift and about time. Mastry is at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Marshall's life long dedication to questioning who is...
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Kyle Staver at Kent FA
“Painting is transformation. It’s like the alchemy of something. I remember being an art student and making light for the first time. It felt like light was actually coming from the painting. How...
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Julia Morrisroe, I'm Sorry You Were Saying?
Here are a few images from my exhibition at Delta State University I'm Sorry You Were Saying? The exhibition continues my exploration into the the flood of images and information that streams in front...
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Kerry James Marshall, Mastry, Part 2
Here are a few more images of work in the Kerry James Marshall show at MCA Chicago. The show will travel to The Metropolitan Museum of Art this fall and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,...
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Marilyn Lerner's Master Class
Some work seems simple but upon careful looking is remarkably complex. Marilyn Lerner's new work at CUE Foundation is a master class is color. Geometric abstract paintings are nothing new but slow...
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Worm Turns Atmosphere - Heather Guertin
Worm Turns Atmosphere is Heather Guertin's show at Brennan Griffin. The oval is a vehicle for Guertin to play with the idea of metamorphosis with technicolor blocks of color.Heather Guertin, An...
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Debra Ramsey's painting installation
Debra Ramsey's installation Hue, Place, Pace, One Year of Color, translates a year of color change into a painting installation at Odetta in Brooklyn. Ramsey collected the color photographically...
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Elisabeth Condon at Lesly Heller
Elisabeth Condon opened a new show at Lesly Heller Workspace. I interviewed Elisabeth about her work and studio practice (here). The Florida landscape, Chinese ink painting and wall paper patterns...
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Map Resource - Pieter van den Keere
Stanford University has opened its David Rumsey Map Collection last April. You can visit its physical space or its digital space to find some absolute wonders of the map world.The first map celebrates...
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Richard Heipp at Gallery Protocol
Richard Heipp's new series of paintings Reflecting on Beuys are in a reductive sense paintings of photographs. Yet they're also self portraits. Each painting is embedded with Heipp's reflection in the...
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Shapeshifters
I'm catching up on a couple of shaped painting shows. Here are a couple of paintings from Shapeshifters at Luhring Augustine in August.Ruth Root, Untitled, 2015 Fabric, plexiglas, enamel paint, and...
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Nancy Mitchnick in Detroit
Nancy Mitchnick returned to her hometown Detroit about five years ago and turned her eye to now well documented decline of a once great city. Rather than romanticizing an past architectural grandeur...
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Ruby Anyinyechi Amanze's Story Telling
Ruby Anyinyechi Amaze's large scale works on paper reflect her response to a nomadic life. Nigeria, England, Philadelphia, Michigan and Brooklyn have all influenced her understanding of space and the...
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Grayson Perry's Rakes Progress
Grayson Perry's tapestry series is a contemporary take on William Hogarth's 18th century paintings "A Rake's Progress" which chronicle the decline and fall of young Tom Rockwell. Rockwell is the heir...
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Grayson Perry's Sketchbook
Grayson Perry's sketchbook shows the evolution of his ideas, color studies and notes for the tapestries. Grayson Perry, Sketchbook PagesGrayson Perry, Sketchbook PagesGrayson Perry, Sketchbook Pages
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Jim Lutes
Shane Campbell Gallery's summer show included these sweet older paintings from Jim Lutes.Jim Lutes, His Plans for Her, 1989, 48 x 36", Acrylic on PlywoodJim Lutes, All Balled Up, 1989, 20 x 30", Oil on...
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Jennifer Samet interviewed Katherine Bradford, a favorite painter of mine, for her column Beer with a Painter last month. They talk about Bradford's early life, slipping out a window to avoid a...
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby,
Portals is the title of Njideka Akunyili Crosby's new show at Victoria Miro. Doors and windows serve as points of arrival of departure for her large figurative paintings although it can also refer to...
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Katharina Wulff
Channeling Chagall's magical environments and Tuymans washed out palette Katharina Wulff's narrative paintings feel exceedingly familiar and unfamiliar. Her ambiguous paintings are located in gyms and...
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Arnold Mesches "I think eventually you’re the sum total of everyone that...
"I think eventually you’re the sum total of everyone that influences you"Your influence has been tremendousRest in Peace ArnoldBelow is a repost interview from 2014Arnold Mesches, Eternal ReturnWhat...
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