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Basquiat at MOMA
Glen Jean-Michel Basquiats painting from 1985 is still light years ahead of The Forever Now painting exhibition located just up the escalator at MOMA.
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Mamma Andersson, Behind the Curtain
Mamma Andersson's exhibition "Behind the Curtain" at David Zwirner was my favorite show in Chelsea last week. To say her work is inspired by film is an understatement, it felt like I walked into a film...
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Mamma Andersson on canvas
Here are a couple of Mamma Andersson's paintings on panel for comparison. The first was one of the largest paintings at 60" wide, but after the large installation I wanted all the figures to have a...
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Pet Stains, Puddles, and Full Gospel Neckless
Al Taylor Pet Stains, Puddles, and Full Gospel Neckless presents work made between 1989 - 1992. and includes a series of drawings and three-dimensional works he titled Pet Stain Removal Devices....
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Dan Walsh
Dan Walsh's exhibition at Paula Cooper was a survey of paintings from the last twenty years and included a lot of his artists books. As you can see they were hermetically sealed in the vitrines but it...
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Cheney Thompson
Here are photographs of one of Cheney Thompson's paintings shown at Andrew Kreps Gallery.Cheney Thompsondetail, Cheney Thompsondetail, Cheney Thompsondetail, Cheney Thompsondetail, Cheney Thompson
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Merlin James
Abstraction and representation weave their way through Merlin James work at Sikkema Jenkins. Martha Schwender review the show for the NY Times and writesThe title of this show, “Genre Paintings,” also...
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Polyrhythm, Jason Karolak
Here are a couple of my favorite paintings from Jason Karolak's show at McKenzie FA. Thomas Micchelli reviewed the show for Hyperallergic. Micchelli describes the work richly...The visual riddles posed...
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Forever Now, MOMA's painting show part 1
I've been mulling over the Painting Now show at MOMA for a couple weeks. There has been plenty of ink spilled about the show, primarily decrying it's lack of curatorial clarity along with too much...
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Forever Now, MOMA's painting show Part 2
Here are a few more from yesterday's postLaura Owens, Untitled, 2014, Acrylic, silkscreen inks, Flashe, oil and gesso on linenLaura Owens, DETAIL UntitledAmy Sillman, Still Life 1, Oil on canvas,...
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Jean Dubuffet, MOMA's really great show
Soul of the Underground a survey of Jean Dubuffet was a standout exhibition in the Drawing Collection at MOMA. The exhibition focused on his experimental works from the 1940's to the 1960's in drawing...
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MFA Shows at University of Florida, Jiayuan Shen
Jiayuan Shen, an MFA candidate at University of Florida opened her thesis exhibition Being? Anywhere last week. Shen builds and expresses the tension before an event through the physical act of mark...
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Alice Neel's Drawings and Watercolors
An exhibition of Alice Neel's drawings and watercolors from 1927-1978 was one of the highlights of my recent trip to Chelsea galleries. There were a couple historical shows that had more purchase than...
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Lynda Benglis at MOMA
One of my favorite works in the reinstall of MOMA's contemporary was Blatt by Lynda Benglis.Lynda Benglis, Blatt, 1969, Dayglo pigment and poured latex
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Michaela Eichwald and Forever Now
Revisiting the Forever Now show at MOMA I was struck again by Michaela Eichwald's curious painting. It's figurative, its abstract, its evidence and its archive. This particular painting remains a...
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Howardena Pindell, Memory:Past
Howardena Pindell, another great find at MOMAHowardena Pindell, Memory: Past, 1980-81 Synthetic polymer paint, dye, paper, thread, tempera, photographic transfer, glitter and powder on canvasHowardena...
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby at the New Museum
Njideka Akunyili Crosby collage paintings were included in the New Museums Triennial. For such a media based show these intimate and textural paintings were a good curatorial fit.Njideka Akunyili...
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Jacob Lawrence, One Way
The paintings of Jacob Lawrence were an inspiration when I was a student and they became even more relevant as I began teaching. Lawrence was working with narrative and race at a time when artists...
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Natalie Frank at the Drawing Center
Natalie Frank's new show, The Brothers Grimm, opens at the Drawing Center on Friday. The grotesque and underlying sexuality of fairy tales has been purged out of literature by the corporations of the...
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Louise Nevelson, more than a high priestess
Louise Nevelson's Collages and Assemblages were up at Pace recently. I hadn't seen her collages before and they were a wonderful surprise. Roberta Smith writes about the collages providing new breadth...
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