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Richard Diebenkorn, breath and life
Paintings either breathe in, or they breathe out. One only needs to look at the large brooding painting by Sean Scully RA, Doric Night (2011), currently on display in the Academicians’ Room, to see...
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Fragonard
I was thinking about Fragonard's painting The Swing during a violin concerto Sunday night. The musician was young and talented but the Tchaikovsky piece she played was long. LONG. So I started to think...
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Martin Puryear
“Although I was certainly aware of numerous depictions of this cap in European and early American art when I began work on the Big Phrygian sculpture, I only discovered the engraved image of the black...
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Glenn Goldberg, artist interview
"I think the body has its own needs. Although painters essentially paint with their eyes and their hands, their bodies have to participate in locating elements. And things aren’t always as symmetrical...
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Sonya Delaunay
LA County Art Museum has A little Sonya Delaunay painting that I still dream about. I only vaguely recalled her work from art history text books but the LACMA piece seemed different, revolutionary....
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Ann Gale, Artist Interview
Larry Groff, Painting Perceptions, interviewed Gale on the phone. They talked about figuration, graduate school, her obsession with observation and her artistic influences.Groff asked Gale about her...
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Lisa Yuskavage at David Zwirner
May seems to be the month for exhibitions of figurative painting? Here are a couple of works from Lisa Yuskavage's current show at David Zwirner. Roberta Smith's review for the Times began with the...
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Leon Golub's brutal world
Hauser + Wirth exhibits Leon Golub this May. We can certainly add Golub to the list of artists that need a major US retrospective. The Guardian's Adriane Searle reviewed the March exhibition at...
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Chantal Joffe
Chantal Joffe at Cheim and ReidChantal Joffe. Marina, 2014, Oil on board, 96 x 72Chantal Joffe. Topless in Purple Gloves, 2009, Oil on board, 84 x 55"Chantal Joffe. Blonde Girl Sitting on a Picnic...
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Around Drawing
I'm still following the May theme of figuration. "Around Drawing" at Rosenfeld Porcini has a couple of artists that fit the bill.Chao Lu, Cake shop, 2015. Oil on canvas, 121 x 91 cm. Image courtesy of...
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Alex Katz at Gavin Brown
Alex Katz's new works are up at Gavin Brown. Ellen Gamerman interviewed Katz for the Wall Street Journal. Katz explains “Pretty girls and flowers? Come on. Trees? It’s not banal, but it’s pretty...
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The Ethics of Desire, Ida Applebroog
Ida Applebroog, installation view at Hauser and Wirth Ida Applebroog, installation view at Hauser and WirthIda Applebroog, Chairs, 2014Oil and acrylic on steel folding chair 38 x 18 1/4 x 2 in -...
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Hope Gangloff's new work
Hope Gangloff's show at Susan Inglett Gallery is another figurative May show. Nicole Rudick writesthat Gangloff'spaintings are gratifyingly overstuffed with garish details rendered in contrasting...
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Jered Sprecher at Gallery Protocol
Jered Sprecher's exhibition at Gallery Protocol gave us a chance to spend some time with Sprecher's provisional yet carefully crafted paintings. A wall of twenty-seven small paintings provide insight...
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Marjolign de Wit, Pots are Not People
Marjolijn de Wit, Untitled (MDW023), 2014. Ceramic on print, 12” x 9.5”Marjolijn de WitUntitled (MDW033), 2015Ceramic on print9.5” x 7.25” See more work here
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Heat and Dust
Thanks to Anne Russinoff for posting images from the Carolyn Case exhibitionHeat and Dust at Asya Geisberg. Carolyn CasePlace Setting, 2015Oil on panel24" x 28"Carolyn CaseHeat and Dust, 2015Oil on...
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Darina Karpov at Pierogi
To me drawing forms out of the contact between pencil or brush and the surface of the paper. It’s a continuous weaving of thought, images, fantasies, and dreams which seem to emerge out of a...
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Marilyn Minter, It's About Time
The Contemporary Art Museum Houston opened its Marilyn Minter retrospective, a much needed survey of a great artist and a University of Florida alumni. Beth Secor reviews the show for Glasstire and...
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