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Zipora Fried's presence
Endurance, persistence and presence all come to mind when looking at Zipora Fried's large monochromatic color pencil drawings at On Stellar Rays. Completed in delft blue, helioblue or cobalt green...
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Julie Mehretu and Abstraction
Paddy Johnson, Art F City, reviewed Julie Mehretu's new exhibition, "Hoodnyx, Voodoo and Stelae" at Marian Goodman Gallery. In her review Johnson questions whether abstract painting could engage...
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Gregory Amenoff at Alexandre Gallery
Gregory Amenoff's paintings are rooted in the american landscape. Stephen Westfall writesFor nearly four decades Amenoff’s paintings have resurrected the organically abstract forms of Dove, O’Keeffe,...
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Terry Winters new work
Terry Winters oil, resin and wax paintings are on view at Matthew Marks. In a statement for the exhibition Winters said "color is basically wild and full of surprises", I couldn't agree more!Terry...
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Chantal Joffe's Pastels
Chantal Joffe shows pastel drawings at Galerie Forsblom. It's a new medium for her but they seem perfectly suited to her soupy and fresh approach to oil painting.Chantal Joffe, Self Portrait at St....
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Hiroko Yamaji at Nanzuka, Tokyo
"Cloud" Hiroko Yamaji's exhibition in Tokyo seeks to reduce landscape to its essentials. Focusing on the weather phenomena (temperature, rain, humidity, clouds) Yamaji's paintings help us to question...
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Toba Khedoori at LACMA
Toba Khedoori's gigantic, silent, empty places hum with life. Empty chairs in a theater, doors, windows, walkways and fireplaces all imply human presence from a mediative distance. The surfaces are...
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Doris Salcedo at the Perez Art Museum
Two of Doris Salcedo’s newest works, Disremembered and A Flor de Piel, were included in the thirty-year survey of at the Perez Art Museum. Disrememberedconsists of three tunics woven from a raw...
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Philip Guston and Richard Nixon
An exhibition of Philip Guston's drawings includes these caricatures of Richard Nixon. The drawings date from 1971 and 1975, a time of political assassinations, war and domestic strife. From the...
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Matthias Bitzer's Watercolors
Matthias Bitzer's exhibition A Different Sort of Gravity presents a diverse group of 2D and 3D works. The challenge with a rambling installation of works of different media is maintaining the tenuous...
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Valerie Hegarty
American Beserk, Valerie Hegarty's exhibition at Burning in Water continues her talented construction of a darker side of American history. Notions of dissolution, destruction and decay are engaged...
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Art Basel: The Rubell Collection
Over the next week or so I'll post images of works from Art Week in Miami. My first stop was the Rubell Collection and some of the recent additions to their collection. Anne Imhof lives and works in...
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Michael Williams at the Rubell Collection
Michael Williams is another new addition to the Rubell Collection and one of the artists using digital printing as part of their process. Check out the details to see how seamless the relationship is...
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Paul Kneale at the Rubell Collection
Paul Kneale, a Canadian artist living in London, manipulates scanners to create paintings. Multiple passes of the scanner captures and layers the ambient light in his studio. The resulting digital...
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Art Basel: Katherine Bradford
I managed to run across quite a few Katherine Bradford paintings at Art Basel. Here are some photos (with details) from NADA and SCOPE.Katherine Bradforddetail, Katherine BradfordKatherine...
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Art Basel: Johannes Kahrs
I thought there were more figure paintings at Art Basel this year. Here is a Johannes Kahs painting. I enjoyed how the image dissolved right in front of my eyes.Johannes Kahrs, Girl with mask, 2014,...
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Art Basel: Yuskavage and Rauch
Here are a few more examples of figurative paintings at Art Basel.Lisa Yuskavagedetail, Lisa YuskavageNeo Rauch
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Nikki Maloof, After Midnight
Nikki Maloof's fresh bright palette reminds me of Alex Katz and Dana Schutz although the paintings don't carry the same heft. Maloof's works are cartoonish and familiar in a good way.Nikki MaloofNikki...
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Matisse
Here are a couple of outstanding Matisse paintings and drawing included in the Matisse/Diebenkorn exhibition at the Baltimore MuseumHenri Matisse, “Interior, Flowers and Parakeets” (1924), oil on...
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Portraits - George Washington
Gilbert Stuart's unfinished 1796 portrait of George Washington was used for the presidents image on the dollar bill and as a reference for the many portraits he and his daughters produced of this...
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