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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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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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