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Arturo Herrara at Sikkema Jenkins
While Arturo Herrara's new work looks familiar this is his first exhibition working purely in acrylic paint. The collage aesthetic remains but the effects are created through a variety of familiar...
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Jacqueline Humphries: paintings and the machine
From a distance Jacqueline Humphries paintings read as almost monochromatic although some have a spray painted gestural line that makes them read like walls, like surfaces that have aged. Coming closer...
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Pastels in Pieces at the Getty
I'm a paper geek and teach paper seaming in one of my drawing classes. I visited the "Pastels in Pieces" exhibition at the Getty solely because it focused on the 18th c. practice of piecing sheets of...
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Judith Linhares
Judith Linhares show at Various Small Fires was juicy and intense. Sharon Mizota reviewed the exhibition for the LA Times and writes "Linhares’ picnics imagine what happens when the men are removed...
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Judith Linhares part 2
Here are some more Linhares paintings. I love these flat planes of color in the figures!Judith Linhares, A New Day, 2014detail, A New Day, 2014detail, A New Day, 2014detail, A New Day, 2014Judith...
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Painted in Mexico at LACMA
Painted in Mexicoat LACMA is a collection of paintings from 1700-1790 that represent an outstanding period of invention in religious art. Religious allegory, putti using their wings to cover their...
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Jasper Johns @ the Broad
Jasper John's "Something Resembling Truth" at the Broad is an outstanding exhibition. Plenty of iconic John's paintings are included but the studies and drawings really brought his process to life....
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Jasper Johns part 2
A few more images from the Johns show at the Broad. Deborah Solomon wrote a good review about the frequently inaccessible nature of his work for the NYT. This survey of six decades provides insight...
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Engender @ Kohn Gallery
Curated by Joshua Friedman I caught "Engender" at Kohn Gallery as it was being deinstalled but I'm glad I was able to see some of the show. The exhibition included work by artists seeking to transcend...
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Seismic Shuffle, Carrie Moyer
The Carrie Moyer show at Mary Boone was a master class in painted surfaces. Acrylic paint and glitter pour, slide, and ooze across the surface in a body of work that shifted between high gloss and...
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Philip Guston Drawing
Philip GustonI ran into this Philip Guston drawing now I can't stop thinking about the parallels between the two presidents.
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Koons: EasyFun
Jeff Koons show EasyFun-Ethereal at Gagosian was easy, a representation of earlier work. Koons collaged advertisements of pancakes, juice, hair, milk and cheese collide with roller coasters,...
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Sarah Morris in New Orleans
Sarah Morris: Sawdust and Tinsel at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans included paintings and videos. The city portraits of Rio were the strongest in the show. Contrasting different layers of...
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Jockum Nordström in NOLA
Jockum Nordström's first US solo show at the New Orleans Contemporary was a mixed bag. Billed as a "demonstration of a practice guided by improvisational logic, an unremitting tempo, and perpetual...
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Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude
The next couple of posts will be of work I've seen this year that is sticking with me. Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude is a self taught painter from Zimbabwe. His paintings were included in the New Museums...
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Janiva Ellis, reveling in the details
Sometimes its the details in a painting that strike most forcefully. I felt that way about Janiva Ellis's paintings at the New Museum Songs for Sabotage exhibition. The cartoony flatness, the...
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Julian Schnabel the 1980's wants you back
Schanbel's new work at PACE in London is sad and insulting to all the outstanding painting happening today. His new work is a poor remix of appropriation of the 1980's. "It is about the power to take...
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Favorites from Tate Modern (Mehretu and Condo)detail
The Tate Modern had plenty of gems to see, I'm going to post a few over the next couple of days. You know which ones are for you!detail, Julie Mehretu, Mogammadetail, Julie Mehretu, MogammaJulie...
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George Condo at Tate Modern
George Condos works on paper at the Modern had some gorgeous heft to them.George Condo, Colored Dream Objects, 1995, Acrylic, Paint, Pastel and colored pencil on paper
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More Favorites from the Tate: Peter Doig and Luc Tuymans
Here are a couple more favorites from my visit to the Tate: Peter Doig and Luc TuymansPeter Doig, Ski Jacket, 1994, Oil paint on 2 canvasesdetail: Peter Doig, Ski Jacketdetail: Peter Doig, Ski...
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