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Danielle Roberts @ Fredericks & Freiser
Moody paintings by Danielle Roberts filled her exhibition Evening All Day at Frederick and Freiser. Roberts work are another wave in the tsunami like trend of contemporary figuration. The paintings...
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Esteban Jefferson @303gallery
May 25, 2020, Esteban Jefferson's exhibition at 303 Gallery is titled for the date of the murder of George Floyd. Jefferson's large scale exquisitely rendered oil and graphite paintings document the...
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Jack Whitten @ Dia Beacon
Jack Whitten's show "The Greek Alphabet Paintings" at DIA Beacon keeps coming back to me. It's a series of black and white paintings that explode with his experimental mark making it's a great look at...
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Hew Locke at PPOW
Another show that's sticking with me from the spring is Hew Locke's exhibition at PPOW "Listening to the Land" taking on power, force, colonialism and history. The show's title "Listening to the Land"...
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SIMON EVANS ™, Van Life
Room to Live was an exhibition of the collaborative work between Simon Evans and Sarah Lannan at James Cohan. The work combines paper, text, and found items representing a cross section of dwellings,...
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Prisoners from the Front, Hilary Harkness
Hilary Harkness queers history starting with Winslow Homer's Civil War painting Prisoners from the Front. Winslow was inspired by his friend Francis Channing Barlow, a Union Army general. Harkness...
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Uncanny Christina Ramberg
The brief but impactful career of the amazingly inventive Christina Ramberg is up at the Art Institute of Chicago. The works below are a case study for the importance of seriality, study and travel....
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Uncanny Christina Ramberg Part II
In 2018 Dan Nadel's wrote in ArtForum "Throughout, her work is characterized by a fierce attention to structural integrity and an unflinching exploration of the female body, first as a subject of...
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Nicole Eisenmen, that show was A LOT
The Nicole Eisenmen show at the MCA Chicago was a lot in many ways. While it disappointingly included minimal sculpture, the rest of the show was filled with great insight into her practice and deep...
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Nicole Eisenman, artist monsters
These early works, Were Artist and Untitled Portrait of a Man (Wolfie), seem to evoke the artist as shape shifter or artist as monster or maybe the transformative impact of making on the artist. It...
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Nicole Eisenmen, What Happened at the MCA?
Eisenmen's work is smart, funny, crude and painterly in the best sense of the word. But really, What Happened, with the MCA exhibition? Eisenmen's early drawings were installed in an isolated room...
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Angels in Mexico City
I spent part of the summer studying in Mexico City, and I’m still reflecting on much of what I learned and how it might current studio project. One highlight was the exhibition Angels: Heavenly Hosts...
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