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Huh, Lily van der Stokker
The cartoonish verve of Lily van der Stokker’s irrepressible installations, which consist of walls and objects painted light, feminine shades, can sometimes disguise the originality and sharpness of...
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Kerry James Marshall's new work
I was going to say a million years ago, but it was really the mid-1990's, Kerry James Marshall was included in a show at the Chicago Cultural Center. They were doing exceptional programming at the...
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Elizabeth Murray's Southern California
Elizabeth Murray, Southern California, 1976, Oil on canvas. 6’ 7 1/4″ x 6′ 3 1/2″Museum of Modern Art, New York NYCarrie Moyer writes about Elizabeth Murray's paintings for Painters on Painting. Moyer...
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Angela Dufresne, Let's Stay Together
John Yau reviews Angela Dufresne's show at Monya Rowe Gallery for Hyperallergic in his essayWhat the Heck is Going On in Angela Dufresne's New Paintings? I appreciate his focus on Dufresne's narrative...
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SA+AH UF Faculty Exhibition
The Harn Museum of Art at University of Florida is presenting the 50th Annual Faculty Exhibition through January. It's a great group of artists that I'm happy to be included with, here are a couple of...
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Shinro Ohtake
Shinro Ohtake's work originates with cutting and pasting but his new exhibition at Parasol includes drawing, pasted works, painting, sculpture, photography, experimental music and video. Ohtake's...
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Horsey Love, David Humphrey
I wasn't very interested in this painting when I saw it but I love one spot in it and now I can't get Horsey Love out of my head. The spot is where the little pink horse and the yellow horse meet,...
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A couple more David Humphrey's
Here are more works from David Humphrey's show, these paintings seem more about looking, with the subject looking just past us or elsewhere in the picture frame. You can project meaning upon this, or...
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Do Ho Suh, more images from Rubbing/Loving Project
Do Ho Suh's exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Rubbing/Loving Project was a splayed open rubbing of the interior of Suh's old NY Apartment. The rubbings were executed on a 1:1 scale so the gallery was filled...
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Arturo Herrera was a little ho hum
Collage on books, collage on linens, Arturo Herrera's new show of medium to small works were just not that interesting. Thrift store paintings, flea market books, embroidered table clothes, etc. all...
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Maria Park, Composition
I have to post some additional images of Maria Park's work at Margaret Thatcher Projects. I love these paintings more and more. Maria Park, Bookend Set 6, 2014, Acrylic on plexiglas cube and 2 books on...
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Robert Gober at Moma
The Heart is Not a Metaphor, the Robert Gober retrospective at MOMA included a lot of silk screen wall paper (see below) and all of his major sculpture. There were also a lot of drawings exhibiting the...
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Marcel Dzama's Jester
Dzama's new film Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance) at David Zwirner is a mesmerizing redux of a Dadaist sensibility. At times the film felt a little overwrought but as the tale spun out I...
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Chris Martin's Glittery Paintings
Glitter never photographs well but here are some images from Chris Martin's show at Anton Kern Gallery. My traveling companion wasn't interested in the work but I felt differently. They're light and...
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Claudio Parmiggiani's Delocazione
Parmiggiani creates traces, he builds the still life, such as the library here, and then sets it on fire. and when the objects are removed this trace is what remains.Claudio ParmiggianiClaudio...
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Hockney's Arrival of Spring
David Hockney's adoption of the ipad as a canvas received a lot of attention, but the first show I saw of the work displayed on ipads didn't interest me. The over saturated colour of the ipad screen...
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Hockney's Spring in Charcoal
The Pace show included a series of Hockney's charcoal drawings Woldgate, The Arrival of Spring in 2013 (twenty thirteen). These drawings are divine and warranted much more viewing time than the prints....
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Grabner's paintings
There's been a lot of discussion about Michelle Grabner's show at James Cohan after Ken Johnson's review in the NY Times. Links to some of the debate are below and they're worth reading. The debate is...
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Egon Schiele at Neue Gallery
Primarily works on paper, the rawness of Egon Schiele's portraiture is a colossal gift at the Neue Gallery. Schiele is admired for his fluid draftsmanship along with his willingness to push beyond his...
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A little more Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele, “Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, Standing (Edith Schiele in Striped Dress)” (1915), oil on canvas. Collection Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands.
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