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Self Portrait, Rembrandt
This self-portrait was relatively early in his career, 1628-29, not long after Rembrandt accepted his first student. Frequently the perfection of Rembrandt is cited, his realism, his mimetic ability,...
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Kandinsky at the Stedelijk
The Stedelijk Museum has a later career Kandinsky painting made with oil and sand. The surface elevation shifts as the sand creates raised areas. It was a nice surprise.Wassily Kandinsky, Two...
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de Kooning at the Stedelijk
More collections from de Kooning, he gets his own room at the Stedelijk.detail, DeKooning, The Springs, 1983detail, DeKooning, North Atlantic Light, 1977
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Do Ho Suh's rubbings
Do Ho Suh's Rubbing/Loving Project, features full scale rubbings of the walls and floor of his former NY apartment. He covers the surfaces with vellum and rubbed each surface with colored pencil or...
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Markus Linnenbrink's new work.
Markus Linnenbrink's pour paintings have shifted in his most recent show, functioning more as veils than surfaces of seductive color. The seduction is still present in the circle based work, see below....
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Helen Appel, the presence of the painting
"my work is not so much about pretending the real thing is there, but more about the presence of the subject, as well as the presence of the painting in space." Helen Appel HELENE APPEL Loosely Laid...
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Even more Works on Paper, Adam Putnam
It's a little unusual to see so much drawing in the September shows, but the Venice Biennale was chock full of works on paper too so it must be in fashion. Adam Putnam's show at PPOW has works on...
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Maria Park and Fahrenheit 451
Maria Park's exhibition Compositions at Margaret Thatcher Projects tethers the viewer between experience and expectation. The work is inspired by the Francois Truffaut's 1966 film based on Ray...
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Your Eyes Proclaim, Julia Morrisroe
The images are a little small but here are a few installation shots of my work Your Eyes Proclaim... in the Solo::Together show that opened at the Harn Museum of Art this week. Hope you get to see...
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Simon Starling's Blue, Red, Yellow, Djungel
Simon Starling's Blue, Red, Yellow, Djungel was installed at the Kröller-Müller Museum. I went there to look at their van Gogh collection, which I'll post tomorrow. The work is an enormous replica of a...
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Early Van Gogh drawings
The Kröller-Müller Museum had two Van Gogh drawings on view, these are early drawings while he was still learning. These drawings pre-date the Potato Eaters by three years, but you can certainly see...
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Redon's Unsatiated Thirst
I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I...
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Nobson in Rotterdam
Nobson is Paul Noble's universe and his enormous drawings, sculptures, rugs and videos were are at the Museum Boijmans in Rotterdam. He gave an artist lecture this past week and provided some insight...
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Paul Noble, Part II
Noble is the designer of a world in which the architectural lust for order willfully collides with the crepuscular realm of the subconscious, where urges and desires swirl around. This world of stone...
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Cutaway view, William Leavitt
William Leavitt, Cutaway View, 2008. Mixed-media Installation with acrylic on canvas painting. Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, NYThis was at South London Gallery in the group exhibition Last...
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Fabian Marcaccio, Mutation Paintings, Artist Interview
Fabian Marcaccio, Paintant Stories, 2000, installed at Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, 2014. Pigmented ink on canvas, silicone, poly-optic resins, oil, wood and metal. 13 x 328 feet. Collection of Daros...
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Keifer in London
Studio view, Anselm KeiferBusy in the studio, here's one of Keifer's studio, he just continues at a scale a pace that defies understanding. The Royal Academy opened their Anselm Kiefer retrospective,...
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The Image as Burden, Marlene Dumas at the Stedeljik
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam recently opened a Marlene Dumas retrospective, The Image as Burden, titled after a painting of the same name. Dumas, a South African artist who trained and settled in...
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Marlene Dumas Part II
These are single works with some details to show the surface texture. The ink drawings posted yesterday are extremely fluid and forms evaporate in front of your eyes. I enjoyed looking at the paintings...
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Kissing or Dying, Marlene Dumas
Marlene Duma, Stern, 20014detail, SternMarlene Dumas, The Kiss, 2003Marlene Dumas, Evil is Banal, 1984detail, DumasInstallation view
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