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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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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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Baking and Painting
As we move into the holidays baking has invaded my thoughts. Cookies and pies specifically. Here are a couple of paintings that also make me think about baking....it's texture, color and most...
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Rachel Ruysch: Women Represent
It’s been an exciting summer finding museums including women painters in their galleries….not for women’s history month, but included in the canon. What a sea change. The text below from the Rijks,...
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Therese Schwartze at the Rijks
Another painting at the Rijks Museum is a stunner by Therese Schwartze. This is more unusual because it’s a portrait, but Schwartze was the daughter of a painter which provided her access to training...
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Therese Schwartz, Portrait of Lizzy Ansingh
Not one but two paintings by Therese Schwartz at the Rijksmuseum. This portrait dates to 1902.Therese Schwartze, “Portrait of Lizzy Ansingh” Oil on canvas, 1902Text from the museum label “Therese...
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Marie Constantine Bashkirtseff
Another outstanding portrait at the Rijksmuseum was made by Marie Bashkirtseff, museum label text below.Marie Constantine Bashkirtseff, “Portrait of Alexandrine Patchenko, the Painter’s Sister-in-Law”,...
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Laura Theresa Alma Tadema
This lovely painting “Anna Leafing Through a Portfolio of Prints” from 1874 was also the Rijksmuseum although the painter is British. Alma Tadema, the daughter of a physician, studied with the painter...
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Clara Peeters
Not a lot is known of Clara Peeters. It’s believed she grew up in Antwerp and likely studied there, it’s possible her father was a painter because training wasn’t available for women at that time. She...
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Clara Peeters, - again :)
Here’s another Clara Peters painting, this one is at The Hague. The Hague label simply provides the title of the painting and the year of 1615. Check out the info on their website, it was the knife...
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Judith Leyster
Judith Leyster achieved success as a painter although little is known about her training, and like most women artists she disappeared from the canon and her paintings were later attributed to men....
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Judith Leyster Part II
Judith Leyster gets a little more biographical information from the museum text for this painting. What isn’t covered is that she married a painter and it seems that no further paintings are attributed...
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Henrietta Ronner-Knip
Born into a family of painters, Henrietta Ronner-Knip learned to paint from her father. She appears to have been the financial back-bone of her father’s house as his vision declined and later supported...
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