Guo Fengyi's drawings
I first saw the drawings of the late Guo Fengyi at the 2012 Venice Biennale. Their swirling energetic colorful lines and figurative forms blew me away. A self taught artist from Xian, Guo Fengyi's work...
View ArticleYes & No, Amy Sillman
Amy Sillman's exhibition Yes & No at Kunsthaus Bregenz includes an installation with everything except paintings on canvas. Amy Sillman, Yes & NoAmy Sillman, Yes & NoSTILL LIFE 2, 2014, oil...
View ArticleJonas Wood, Clipping Index 1
Jonas Wood, Clipping Index 1, 2015, gouache, ink, and colored pencil on paper, in seven parts : approx. 60 × 40 inches © Jonas WoodJonas Wood, much like a gardener, is taking clippings from his own...
View ArticleJonathan Laskers approach to composition
Shirley Kaneda interviewed Jonathan Lasker a couple of years ago for BOMB. Kaneda brought up Lasker's brief time in a rock band and they began discussing the relationship between composing music and...
View ArticleAngela Dufresne Artist Interview
Jennifer Samet interviewed Angela Dufresne for her blog Beer with a Painter last month. Samet's description of Dufresne's paintings was as intense as the paintings themselves. Samet writes "They have...
View ArticleEvelyn Dunbar rediscovered
The only salaried female Official War Artist during WW2 Evelyn Dunbar has recently been 'rediscovered' thanks to Antiques Roadshow! An exhibition of her work is at the Pallant House GalleryEvelyn...
View ArticleBecky Suss at the ICA, Philadelphia
Becky Suss' large scale paintings of her relatives mid-century modern homes at the ICA, Philadelphia for her first solo museum exhibition.Jennifer Zaro discusses the exhibition for the ArtblogSuss said...
View ArticleNick Goss at Simon Preston Gallery
Bluing, the title of Nick Goss' exhibition at Simon Preston stems from a family laundry business. James Cahill explains Goss's focus on places in Art in AmericaGoss’s layered yet evanescent images...
View ArticleMerge Visible, Dennis Loesch at PM/AM
Merge Visible is a photoshop operation that allows the user to combine or unite all the layers within the image they're working with. It's easy to build a photoshop images with 6, 8 or 10 layers in...
View ArticleFrancis Bacon's Late Paintings
Paintings from the last two decades of Francis Bacon's life were at Gagosian in December. Many of the images are revisits or refinements of earlier paintings such as Triptych below which is a second...
View ArticleKatherine Bradford at CANANDA
Here are some images from Fear of Waves, Katherine Bradford's show at CANADA. Fathers, 2016, Acrylic on drop cloth, 70 x 96"Installation viewSurf Party, Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 55"Pool Swimmers,...
View ArticleLarry Poons from the 1970's + 80's
From the 1970's and 1980's Larry Poon's Choral Fantasy are framed around two of the artist’s most prominent influences, the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy (Opus....
View ArticleVija Celmins in Vienna
Vija Celmins, "Untitled (Ocean)" (1970). Courtesy of the Artist, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc., Los Angeles and Secession, Vienna.Aaton Bogart writes for FlashArt Online about Celmins show at...
View ArticleFrank Stella, finally
Frank Stella, Harran II, 1967. Polymer and fluorescent polymer paint on canvas. 120 × 240 in. (304.8 × 609.6 cm). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; gift, Mr. Irving Blum, 1982. © 2015 Frank...
View ArticleHieronymus Bosch, it's his time
Two exhibitions for an artist with only about 25 surviving paintings, Hieronymus Bosch is the perfect painter for our post-apocalyptic times. Heaven and Hell never look so convincing.Bosch, detail: The...
View ArticleNorma, Kara Walker, London
Anna Coatman reviewed Kara Walker's exhibition Norma for Frieze Magazine. Coatman describes the preliminary work included in the exhibitionThese paintings were accompanied by a series of 12 preliminary...
View ArticleBill Gusky at Lesley Heller
Ancestor Worship by Bill Gusky was in the "Shaky Ground" exhibition in the workspace at Lesley Heller last month.
View ArticleThe Idea of North, Lawren Harris
The monumental landscapes of Lawren Harris are gathered in the exhibition "The Idea of North" at the Hammer Museum. Rooted in the landscape of Canada Harris' paintings are monumental idealizations of...
View ArticleRoad Trips, Cynthia Daignault
Cynthia Daignault’s exhibition Light Atlas is the result of a yearlong trip across American. Light Atlas documents the view every 25 miles of her trip and consists of 360 paintings. There's a sweet...
View ArticleMFA shows at University of Florida - Jefreid Lotti
Jefreid Lotti, an MFA candidate at University of Florida opened his thesis exhibition Efichens last week. Lotti depicts his mother, utilitarian objects and the efficiency apartment they lived in when...
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