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Art Week Miami Part 5
Here are some stellar figurative and narrative works on paper.Jimmy Wright, ink on mylar @Fierman SituationsJimmy Wright, ink on mylar @Fierman SituationsJimmy Wright, ink on mylar @Fierman...
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Franz Ackerman @ Art Basel
Franz Ackerman's mural was unveiled for Art Basel. This is the first of many murals planned for the Miami Convention Center. Check out this article in the Miami Herald for more info.Franz...
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Laylah Ali @ Untitled Art Fair
Steve Turner Gallery presented sixteen marker, color pencil and ink works on paper by the inventive Laylah Ali at the Untitled Art Fair in Miami. Art21 interviewed Ali in one of their earliest seasons....
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Happy New Year
The fireworks have begun, all the best in the coming year!James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket, 1874
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Eduardo Sarmiento @ the Thomas Center
Eduardo Sarmiento's works on paper have been brought together by Curator Anne Gilroy for the Thomas Center Galleries in Gainesville, FL. Sarmiento, a Cuban-American artist, has developed an intimate...
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Dana Schutz Imagine Me and You
There are plenty of great reviews about Dana Schutz's new show "Imagine Me and You" at Pretzel. Roberta Smith of the NYT argues this may be Schutz's best show yet as Schutz "bounces between the...
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Benjamin King, Homeland at Freight and Volume
Benjamin King's heavily impastoed paintings present a thriving landscape devoid of humans. Reality and fantasy merge in these chromatically intense paintings that wield a palette as toxic as our...
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Neil Welliver
Neil Welliver's paintings and woodcuts were at Tibor de Nagy last month. Welliver makes small studies painting outdoors using only 8 colors and working within a three hour time frame to maintain...
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David Bates and Joan Mitchell @ the Met
Every visit to the Met is overwhelming and marvelous. David Bates, The Long Cypress and Joan Mitchell's La Vie en Rose were standouts this time.David Bates, The Long Cypress, 1983detail: David Bates,...
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Leslie Wayne @ Jack Shainman
Leslie Wayne's exhibition "What's Inside" at Jack Shainman shifts her tactile approach to the material of paint and engages with perception differently. Windows, doors and cabinets become forms to...
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William Kentridge @ Marian Goodman
Let Us Try for Once William Kentridge's drawings and films excavate the legacy and paradoxes of colonialism. KABOOM! is a three-channel work projected onto a model scaled to the stage of The Head &...
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Forrer, Humphrey and Smith
Highlights from Chelsea include Christina Forrer @ Luhring Augustine, David Humphrey @ Fredericks Freiser and Kiki Smith at PaceChristina Forrer, Untitled (Brown Background) 2018, Cotton, wool, linen,...
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Peter Linde Busk @ Saatchi Gallery
Titles referencing the Rolling Stones or David Bowie's Rock n Roll Suicide complicate our experience of Danish artist Peter Linde Busk's paintings. I was bowled over by the range and fluidity of his...
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Tillman Kaiser @ Saatchi Gallery
Tillman Kaiser shifts between painting and sculpture. Saatchi Gallery exhibited a group of paintings from 2007. Influenced by Surrealism and Bauhaus architecture Kaiser uses construction and collage...
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Tom Howse @ Saatchi
Tom Howse's interiors revel in his paint handling. What appears at first glance as camera ready paintings quickly shift into a mediated conversation with the materiality of paint. You'll need to...
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Picasso Drawings
It was a real treat to see these early drawings at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona. They may not hold his most important paintings but these are worth the trip.Horse Feeding, 1898Figures on the...
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Pat Phillips at the Whitney Biennial
We're into the fall season already but I have a few favorite paintings from the Whitney Biennial to share. Pat Phillips, from Louisiana, had two paintings and a mural commissioned for the exhibition....
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Favorite Paintings from the Venice Biennale
This post is a little late in coming but I'm still working to wrap my head around all the work at the Venice Biennale. Truth be told project didn't hold together for me. Don't get me wrong there was a...
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Favorite paintings from the Venice Biennale Part 2
Here are a few more favorite paintings from the Biennale.Julie Mehretu, Ghosthymdetail: Julie Mehretu, GhosthymJulie Mehretu, Oceanic Beloveddetail: Julie Mehretu, Oceanic BelovedUlrike MullerUlrike...
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Amy Sherald
This was my first time seeing Amy Sherald's paintings. No artist "bursts on the scene", they paint away even when no one is paying attention. Yet Sherald became very visible very fast when her...
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