Marlene Dumas Part II
Post FiveAugust, the proverbial dog days of summer, is a good time to look back on the past year. Today begins a five post series reviewing the top blog posts (via web traffic) this year.These are...
View ArticleMark Bradford, Finding Barry
Mark Bradford, Finding Barry, 2015Carved into the wall at the Hammer Museum Mark Bradford maps the 2009 U.S. population diagnosed with AIDS per 100,000. in each state. Jennie Waldow reviews the entire...
View ArticleExpressions
The Met has pulled together an exhibition of work from their collection to explore human emotion through facial expression. Here are a couple of works in the About Face: Human Expression on Paper...
View ArticleNathalie Du Pasquier, The Big Game
Nathalie Du Pasquier's exhibition The Big Game includes drawings from the 80's done for the design group Memphis. Instead of focusing on defining periods within her oeuvre The Big Game describes the...
View ArticleMichael Reafsnyder's new paintings
Michael Reafsnyder's exhibition at Ameringer McEnery Yohe opened this weekend. Kim Bell reviewed an earlier exhibition for Art LTD“Originally, I wanted to make paintings that were like hamburgers...
View ArticleValerie Jaudon, new work
Valerie Jaudon's new work opened at DC Moore. In 1996 she was interviewed by Rene Paul Barilleaux. Barilleaux began by asking Jaudon about the connections between her work and issues of the Pattern and...
View ArticleKarl Wirsum, The Hard Way
Karl Wirsum, The Hard Way at Derek Eller presents Wirsum's work from the 1970's. According to the gallery press releaseWith the close of the 1960s and the final Hairy Who exhibition, Wirsum began...
View ArticleGhosts of Padua, Fred Stonehouse
Here's a few of the works in Fred Stonehouse's exhibition at Howard Scott Gallery. Check out more hereFred Stonehouse, Scapegoat, 2015, Acrylic on woodFred Stonehouse, Threat of Snow, 2015, 22 x 26,...
View ArticleEmpires, Celaya's exhibition in two parts
Empires: Sea, Empires: Land is Enrique Martinez Celaya's exhibition in two parts at Jack Shainman. Celaya continues to combine reality, fantasy and memory to create his evocative worlds.Enrique...
View ArticleThe Greene Street Mural
Roy Lichtenstein created Greene Street Mural in 1983. The site-specific temporary wall painting (18'× 96ft) was created at the Castelli Gallery at 142 Greene Street and was destroyed after the...
View ArticleKeltie Ferris new paintings
Jarret Earnest interviewed Keltie Ferris last year for the Brooklyn Rail. He asked Ferris about the relationship between his paintings, theater space and dance. I like the idea of my paintings being...
View ArticleFight in an Elevator
Dana Schutz's new neo-cubist paintings opened at Petzel Gallery. The paintings are huge and Schutz is mixing up her paint application mixing up her linear marks with flattened patterns and big juicy...
View ArticleJudy Glantzman and Winslow Homer
“The work started when I saw Winslow Homer’s Dressing for the Carnival in the exhibition, The Civil War, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting drew me in. I made pen drawings, mapping...
View ArticleWhere the girls are...Denver!
Elaine DeKooning, Bullfight 1959It's not until next year but the Denver Art Museums announcement of the "Women of Abstract Expressionism" is highly anticipated and long overdue. Curated by Gwen...
View ArticleDiana Copperwhite Artist Interview
Sharon Butler interviewed artist Diana Copperwhite for Two Coats of Paint last spring. Copperwhite's show "A Million and One Things Under the Sun" was up at Kevin Kavanagh in Dublin.Butler asked...
View ArticleFiona Rae at Timothy Taylor
Here are a few paintings from Fiona Rae's spring exhibition at Timothy Taylor. Figure 1j, 2014, 72 x 51 in. / 183 x 129.5 cm, Oil and acrylic on canvas Figure 1j, 2014, 72 x 51 in. / 183 x 129.5 cm,...
View ArticleCecily Brown's small work
Long known for large scale figurative paintings Cecily Brown was interviewed by Julie Belcove around the time of her spring exhibition of small paintings at Maccarone.People would see them and say,...
View ArticleJacqueline Humphries at Carneige Museum
What fascinates me is how little I can control their behavior in new situations. An image will coalesce and then disintegrate, giving way to another reading that sort of comes out of the background. To...
View ArticleLaura Owens in Berlin
Here is an except from Mark Princes review of Laura Owens recent exhibition at Capitain Petzel.Across five 9-foot-tall canvases, sans serif lettering is printed onto ruled lines over a blend of...
View ArticleBoys and Pastel, Nicolas Party
Nicolas Party at Inverleith House, EdinburghNicolas Party, Iverleith House, EdinburgNicolas Party, Iverleith House, Edinburg
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