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For the Picture Makers, Don't Look Now
This exhibition combines works from artists who have historically dealt with representation, with those from some of the contemporary champions of its reemergence. Simply put, this one is for the...
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I want to be responsible for every square inch of the painting, Artist Interview
Beer with a Painter author Jennifer Samet interviews Catherine Murphy in her Poughkeepsie Studio. They talked about her early interest in drawing, discord in her family and discord in the painting...
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Dirk Stewen's watercolor
These are new to me. Like Dirk Stewen's assemblages and paintings, they're a balancing act. But in watercolor Stewen's touch is slight and surprising.PFAU MIT TULPEN, Hamburg, ink and gouache on paper,...
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Holbein's Minatures
Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497/98–1543). Margaret More (1505–1544), Wife of William Roper, 1535–36. Vellum laid on playing card; Diameter 1 3/4 in. (45 mm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New...
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More Holbein Miniatures
Hans Holbein the Younger, Jane Small, portrait miniature, c.1540. Bodycolour on vellumVictoria and Albert Museum, London
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Albert Oehlen's new paintings
I posted Albert Oehlen's drawing a couple years ago, here's the link. E. Baker reviews Albert Oehlen's exhibition at Gagosian Beverly Hills for Art Observed. Baker writes primarily about Oehlen's...
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McCarthy and Sharaf
Alicia McCarthy and Jenny Sharaf new paintings at Johansson Projects. Installation View (Alicia McCarthy and Jenny Sharaf)Alicia McCarthy, Untitled (5), 2014, Crayon, spray paint and latex paint on...
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Turn Up the Heat part one
Rainer Gross and Omar Chacon were two of the artists in Turn Up the Heat at Margaret Thatcher Projects, I'll post more tomorrow.Rainer Gross, Impression 13, 2014Oil and pigments on canvas, 46 x 82...
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Turn Up the Heat Part Two
Cathy Choi, B1407, 2014Acrylic, pigment, glue and resin on canvas, 24 x 24 inches Cathy Choi at Margaret Thatcher Projects
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Paintings on Paper - Heilmann and Frecon
Because it was such a good show here are a few more images from the Paintings on Papershow at David Zwirner. Mary Heilmann, Negative Space Two, 2014, Acrylic on handmade paper, 12 x 15 inches, © 2014...
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Thomas Cole at the Taft Museum of Art
Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole's painting The Voyage of Life is on a rare trip to Cincinnati. The Taft Museum has all four of Cole's allegorical painting cycle (Birth, Youth, Manhood, Old Age)...
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McConaughy's Dive
Claire McConaughy, Dive, 2014, oil on canvas, 36"x24"A perfectly timed piece for the end of summer, Claire McConaughy's narrative paintings were at the Painting Center this summer.
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Hairy Who documentary
Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists,is a new documentary directed by Leslie Buchbinder. I haven't found screening info in Florida yet but I'll keep checking. The Hairy Who groups influence on Chicago...
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Judy Ledgerwood, Site Specific
Judy Ledgerwood, installation view, Painters Panting, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, 2012I was looking for artists making site-specific paintings for a class and found this wonderful Judy Ledgerwood...
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Simon Callery and involving the viewer
Simon Callery had a painting this summer at the recently shuttered Lion and Lamb Gallery. It was a sweet little thing, below, and sent me looking for more of his work. Abstract Critical interviewed...
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Pen and Ink Painting
Willem van de Velde I's The Battle of Terheide is a pen and ink painting almost four feet across. It's one of a commemorative series commissioned by a Dutch naval commander, van de Velde began the...
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The Van Gogh Museum
Out of the wonderful collection at the Van Gogh Museum, which has grown brilliantly over the years, I selected these two to post because I think of them often. I look to the first painting's rain as it...
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Odilon Redon at the Van Gogh
The Van Gogh Museum also had a small group of Odilon Redon still life pastel drawings. Its not often we get to see his drawings. The museum doesn't permit photographs so this was all I was able to...
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Early Replication, Hendrik Jacobus Scholten
It's a curious little painting, The Princess of Orange visits the studio of Bartholomeus van der Helst. The premise is that the princess is viewing van der Helst's portrait of her, and behind van der...
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van der Helst's Militia
Here's one of the Bartholomeus van der Helst paintings I mentioned yesterday. Van der Helst included himself, he's the guy all the way to left but I get distracted by the sameness of the men in these...
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