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Maya Lin's Ghost Forest
Maya Lin's "Ghost Forest" is on view through through the fall at Madison Square Park. 49 coastal Atlantic cedars, all about 80 years old, have been installed in the middle of the park otherwise...
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Glitter and Kerry James Marshall
There are times when glitter is the right tool, introducing resistance to the status quo in painting. Kerry James Marshall reminded me of that fact in the New Museums exhibition Grief and Grievance:...
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John Lees at the New Museum
John Lees, Sitting in One Place, a scroll on paper was included in the New Museums exhibition "Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America." Julia Schwarz interviewed him for Figure Ground where...
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Joan Semmel at Alexander Gray
Joan Semmel's paintings continue her iconic interpretation of the self-nude at Alexander Gray. They were luminous, painterly, seductive images of an aging female body. I've included a lot of details...
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Alice Neel: What we don't see in painting
I met Alice Neel's paintings as an undergrad student. A professor introduced her as a radical artist painting what we don't see in the history of painting such as a nude pregnant woman or a male...
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Alice Neel: People Come First
As promised here are more images from the Alice Neel Retrospective at the Met.Alice Neel, James Farmer, 1964 Oil on canvasdetail: Alice Neel, James FarmerAlice Neel, Black Draftee (James Hunter), 1965...
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Alice Neel: Paintings with children
A few more from the Alice Neel exhibitionAlice Neel, Isabetta, 1934-35 Oil on canvasdetail: Alice Neel, The Black Boys (Toby and Jeff Neal), 1967 Oil on canvasAlice Neel, Two Girls, Spanish Harlem...
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Katherine Bradford at CANADA
These are detail shots from Katherine Bradfords show at CANADA. I'll post the full images next, but I've been engrossed in the small moments within the larger paintings.detail: Katherine...
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Paintings by Katherine Bradford
The details are teasers, the clarity and brutishness of Bradfords brushstrokes get better with each show. She achieves so much with seemingly so little. The title of the show was "Motherhood". Jacob...
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A few more Katherine Bradford Paintings
Following up on the last post, here are a couple more images from the gorgeous Katherine Bradford, Mother Paintings show at CANADAKatherine Bradford, Singular Man, 2020detail: Katherine Bradford,...
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Christina Quarles @ MCA Chicago
The Christina Quarles show at the MCA Chicago was likely one of the best painting shows I saw this year. The pandemic really put a wrench in my blog posts but thankfully this show is up until January....
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Christina Quarles, more images!
Christina Nafziger reviewed the Christina Quarles show at MCA Chicago for New City The paintings of Christina Quarles are all about boundaries: the boundary as threshold, as surface, as canvas, as...
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Oscar Velazquez @ MCA Chicago
Oscar Velazquez, Caguamo, 2020, Oil and Acrylic on CanvasHere's some more work from the MCA Chicago that I forgot to post. I keep looking at Velazquez's paintings though. The airbrushed background and...
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More Oscar Velazquez
Here are a few more images from Oscar Velazquez's exhibition at MCA Chicago.Oscar Velazquez, Maboya, 2020, Oil and Acrylic on Canvasdetail: Oscar Velazquez, Maboya Oscar Velazquez, Baracutey, 2020,...
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Crip Time, MMK Frankfurt
Challenging societies blatant exclusion of all but the normative body was the focus of Crip Timeat the MMK (Museum fur Moderne Kunst) in Frankfurt. The exhibition was framed around accessibility as a...
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Celeste Rapone at Marianne Boesky
Continuing the riches of current narrative figuration here are some images from Celeste Rapone's exhibition at Marianne Boesky. There's a lot that's familiar in their work but I still find these...
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Nick Cave, Each One, Every One, Equal All
After a little wandering we found Nick Cave's new public project "Each One, Every One, Equal All" at the Times Square and 42 Street subway station. Seeing his sound suits exuberant translation into 2D...
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Matthew Wong, The New World Paintings from Los Angeles
The exhibition of Matthew Wong's work from 2016 provided yet another stylistic world view. Cheim + Read's exhibition of small paintings presents a stylistic shift of juicy layered paint evocative of...
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Judith Linhares, Banshee Sunrise at PPOW
The juicy and raw paintings of Judith Linhares are always refreshing as she plays freely between representation and abstraction. Her recent show at PPOW delivers yet again as color cranks its way...
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Charles Burchfield
This Charles Burchfield painting, September Sun, 1946 absolutely made my day. The exhibition, In Search of the Miraculous, at Marlborough had other highlights but for now, I'm just sautéing in...
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