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MFA Shows University of Florida, Miguel Saludes
Miguel Saludes, an MFA candidate at University of Florida, presented his thesis exhibition Open Conversations last week. Saludes paints from observation, working to capture the range of textures and...
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Paintings from the Brooklyn Museum
Here are a couple of my favorites from my recent visit to the Brooklyn Museum.Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, The Root, 2011, Oil on canvasdetail, Yiadom-BoakyeAlison Elizabeth Taylor, Security House, 2008-10,...
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Qiu Xiaofei at Pace
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Pollock on Paper
MOMA has a beautiful Jackson Pollock show of selections from the permanent collection in the works on paper gallery.Jackson PollockJackson PollockJackson Pollockdetail, Pollock
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MFA Shows at University of Florida - Jessie Hamilton
Jessie Hamilton's wandering restless installation for her MFA thesis exhibition draft adrift was a thirty foot long meandering installation of paintings and sculptures. Focused on the idea of flux,...
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MFA shows at University of Florida - Lydia Dildilian
Lydia Dildilian thesis exhibition Ghost in the Machine is a twenty-four panel painting that explores sociocultural paradigms and the transference of information through a society. Dildilian uses...
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Ted Larsen at Margaret Thatcher
Ted Larsen's minimal sculptural paintings at Margaret Thatcher were spot on. According to Larsen “The shapes come from all sorts of influences; industrial components, geometric abstraction, biomorphic...
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Kay Rosen
These Kay Rosen gouache paintings were at Sikkema JenkinsKay Rosen, Head Over Heels, 2015-16, Acrylic gouache on paperKay Rosen, Trickledown, 2015-16, Acrylic gouache on paper
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Phyllis Bramson at the Cultural Center
I was happy to be able to visit the Phyllis Bramson retrospective "Under the Pleasure Dome" at the Chicago Cultural Center yesterday. The show included paintings, works on paper and assemblages from...
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Phyllis Bramson, Chicago Cultural Center, Part II
I've included details in this post to focus on the collage material in Bramson's paintings. That range of surface shifting (ribbons, fabric, board, paper, etc.) isn't present in the oldest work at the...
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Hilma af Klint
I saw Hilma af Klint's work for the first time at the 2013 Venice Biennial along with a number of artists working outside the traditional canon. Serpentine Galleries exhibition "Painting the Unseen"...
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Mary Heilman in London
Looking at Pictures a Mary Heilman retrospective just opened at Whitechapel in London. Adrian Searle reviewed the show for the Guardian and writesThere are no tremors of the absolute, no toying with...
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Nicole Eisenman at the New Museum
Al-Ugh-Orgies, a retrospective of Nicole Eisenman's paintings and sculptures is wrapping up at the New Museum.Peter Schjeldahl reviewed the exhibition for the New Yorker "...she has led a kind of...
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Ruth Root
Ruth Root (Galeria Marta Cervera) combines digitally printed fabric with painted plexiglass to create shaped paintings that quiver in space. Martha Schwendener wrote for the NYTimes in 2015...
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Laura Owens at Wattis Institute
Anthony Huberman wrote for the Laura Owens exhibition Ten Paintings at the Wattis InstituteWhen it comes to painting, there are many battles to choose from: flatness versus depth, materiality versus...
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David Reed at Peter Blum
David Reed's new work was made with stencils from scans of brush marks or his old paintings. The scans are used to layer and multiply the gestural mark on this sparse series of canvases. David Carrier...
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The Female Gaze
The Female Gaze, Part Two is a curated project at Cheim + Reid. Including the Sylvia Sleigh painting Paul Rosano in Jacobson Chair from 1971 situates the exhibition in context of the early discussion...
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Jacqueline Humphries at Galerie Gisela
Jacqueline Humphries exhibition at Galerie Gisela includes new paintings built from a grid of emojis and emoticons. In a 2009 interview with Cecily Brown Humprhies talked about her approach to...
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Elena Sisto at Lori Bookstein
I'm a little late posting images from Elena Sisto's show at Lori Bookstein but here's a link for the exhibition catalog with an essay by Robert Storr. Elena Sisto, Splurt, 2013-2015, Oil on canvas, 48...
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