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Tuesday, October 3, 2023
William Grimes reports in the NY Times that Nathan Oliveira, a leading Bay Area artist who achieved national prominence fusing Abstract Expressionism and figuration in psychologically charged canvases that explored human isolation and alienation, died on Saturday at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 81. According to his son Joe, the cause was complications of pulmonary fibrosis and diabetes,
Check out SFMOMA video interviews with Oliveira here.
Latest post, link in profile / NYC Selected Gallery Guide: October, 2023 / A selected, painting-centric guide to the galleries in New York. Galleries that would like their exhibitions considered for inclusion in the next Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide should send a note to ExhibitionsatTCOP@gmail.com. Please include a couple jpegs and exhibition info (preferred format: Name of gallery/ Street address, New York, NY / Name of artist, title of exhibition / dates of show. Thanks! Link in profile.
#nycgallery #lesgalleries #tribecagalleries #brooklyngallery #queensgallery chelseagalleries #uesgalleries
Image: Dimin Gallery: Justine Hill, Omphalos (exhibition), 2023, Installation View
Tappeto Volante Projects: Aparna Sarkar, Tablecloth, 2023, oil on canvas, 18 × 24 inches
Latest post, link in profile / Pop Gun Gallery: What’s in a name? / Contributed by Jared Hoffman / “Various Artists,” Pop Gun Gallery’s current group show, ostensibly invites art fans to glimpse the future in works by some rather big names: Jordon Wolfson, Kim Gordon, Joe Bradley, and Mike Kelley. But not all is what it seems. The show, organized by Jacob Patrick Brooks and Gunner Dongieux for the artist-run, DIY gallery, starts by gently wrong-footing viewers. Four of Brooks’s large, slick oil paintings appear, each riffing on the phrase: “Glamour, it’s back.” In successive iterations, Brooks eases the phrase into abstract scenes, pushing large brush strokes into soft forms. A bit of Lois Dodd is felt in his color palette. The paintings give me the feeling of sipping tea in a Danish wood. Link in profile
@3_6_jared @worldsstrongestpainter @popgunart #jacobpatrickbrooks #jaredhoffman #popgun
Latest post, link in profile / ArtBank7: No stranger among us / In ArtBank7’s first group show, “No Stranger Among Us,” the artists group celebrates the profound power of community connection through creative expression. Using a variety of artistic mediums, six artists tell their unique stories in a collective spirit. They interweave personal narratives with universal truths, often giving voice to the marginalized or amplifying stories that have been overlooked or silenced. The exhibition aims to serve as a springboard for further conversation that dismantles the barriers that can divide us and advances wider empathy. Link in profile
@alofftgallery @artbank_7
@karen.bonanno.art
@shonart
@smittysmith327
@erika_larskaya_studio
@jenabbotttillou
#KarenBonanno, #ErikaLarskaya
#SaraConklin #CopperTritscheller
#ShonaCurtis #JenAbbottTillou #alofftgallery #artbank7
#twocoatssponsor
Latest post, link in profile/ Closely guarded turbulence: Amy Feldman in Stockholm / Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Simple and blithely inviting though they may seem at first, Amy Feldman’s new abstract paintings, on display in her solo show “Heart Arts” at Anna Bohman Gallery in Stockholm, are full of tension and nuanced emotion. They are quietly beguiling. In Jolly Squall, one of six large-scale works, she frames roiling silk-screened shapes in neat ribbons of acrylic paint, configured like an hourglass, that segregate the visual agitation from a background of shaded gray horizontal lines on which edges of similar agitation encroach. There’s a lot going on there. Link in profile
Image: Amy Feldman, Jolly Squall, 2023, acrylic, silkscreen ink, impasto on canvas, 201 x 201 cm
@al.feldman @annabohmangallery #amyfeldman #jonathanstevenson #annabohman #stockholmgallery #twocoatsofpaint
Please join us: Two Coats of Paint is hosting our first Hudson Valley Gallery Crawl on Oct 14 + 15. 💥 To kick off the weekend, @sharon_butler (publisher of Two Coats of Paint) will be hosting an Opening Reception on the evening of Friday, October 13. A map and details about expanded hours, exhibitions, and special activities to come.
Participating galleries include:
Analog Diary
Art Sales & Research
Artport Kingston
Buster Levi
Collar Works
D’Arcy Simpson Art Works
Susan Eley Fine Art
Elijah Wheat Showroom
Front Room Gallery
Galerie Gris
Garage Gallery
Garrison Art Center
Geary
Joyce Goldstein Gallery
Alexander Gray Associates
Carrie Haddad Gallery
Headstone Gallery
Hudson Hall
Jeff Marfa Art @ Hands on Main
LABspace
Lightforms Art Center
Lockwood Gallery
Mother Gallery
Opalka Gallery
Private Public Gallery
The Re Institute
SEPTEMBER
Pamela Salisbury Gallery
Turley Gallery
Visitor Center
Woodstock Artists Association & Museum
@analogdiary.art @artsalesandresearch @artportkingston @busterlevi_gallery @collarworks @darcysimpsonartworks @sefa_gallery @elijah_wheat_showroom @frontroomnyc @galerie_gris @garagegallerybeacon @garrisonartcenter @gearycontemporary @joycegoldsteingallery @alexandergrayassociates @carriehaddadgallery @headstonegalleryny @hudsonhallny @labspace_art @lightforms_art_center @thelockwoodgallery1 @mothergallery @opalka_gallery @privatepublicgalleryhudson @the_re_instititute @septembergallery @pamelasalisburyhudson @turleygallery @visitorcenterspace @waamart @handsonmain @jeffmarfa
Look for more info both here and on www.twocoatsofpaint (link in profile)
See you there 😎 🍻
Obituaries & Remebrances at Two Coats of Paint / The Blind Swimmer: Gordon Grant Fraser (December 2, 1975 – November 1, 2020) / Two Coats of Paint has recently learned of the death of Gordon Fraser, a talented artist and art blogger who penned the now defunct The Blind Swimmer, of a heart attack after undergoing a series of treatments for colon cancer. Gordon was an early and interesting contributor to the art blogging community, and…Link in profile
Image: Gordon Fraser, Half Moon Bay, 2020, pages from his chemo sketchbook
@blndswmr #gordonfraser #saumanchoyfraser @prattalumni #artistobituaries #artblogger #theblindswimmer
Latest post, link in profile / Steve Greene’s crafty agitation / Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / In an adventurous departure from drawing and collage, Steve Greene now offers intriguingly acerbic abstract paintings in his solo show “News From Nowhere,” on view at Frosch & Co. They are rich with sharply drawn shapes and robustly differentiated visual content, yet they require little deliberation to be appreciated. They penetrate immediately. This quality stems from the thematic cohesiveness produced by trenchant cultural and art-historical tropes distributed among the paintings. Judging by the fluidity of his marks and line, Greene generates these allusions intuitively, with minimal contrivance. Link in profile
#stevegreene #froschandco #jonathanstevenson #contemporarypainting #abstractpainting #newsfromnowhere
Sirius Namazi “Pending” @magasin3, curated by Tessa Praun / Namazi, born in Kerman, Iran, in 1970 and based in Stockholm, teases out ideas about memory, loss of information and exclusion. Meticulously produced exhibition, featuring enormous projected video on a stretched canvas, a series of machine-made embroideries based on details from the sculptures, 3-printing from handmade ceramic sculptures, and more. Not for the casually inclined.
#SiriusNamazi #magasin3 #stockholmartist #konsthall #tessapraun @tessapraun #output
@_lisa_tan knows how to fill a space. The waiting room entrances with framed prints of Klee, Matisse, etc, the room framing, the large letters, a video viewing room with chairs for an audience @acceleratorsu in Stockholm.
Two Coats Obituaries
Thanks for the link to SFMOMA. Loved listening to Oliveria talk about his Windhover project! So sad he's gone.