“Simultaneously” – MEN, Leidy Churchman’s video features dancing brushes, mops, spatter, and lots of paint. Greater New York, the third iteration of the quintennial […]
Month: April 2010
Charles Cohan: Losing the original amidst repetition
Charles Cohan, “MGP09.X-XVII,” 2010, colagraph print, 46 x 40,” edition of one. For the next day or two, I’ll be lurking around […]
Pat Steir: Effusively minimalist
Pat Steir applying a soap ground, San Francisco 1993. Image courtesy Crown Point Press. In the Boston Globe, Sebastian Smee reports that increasingly he finds […]
Martin Bromirski’s universe
Check out Martin Bromirski’s scrappy, small-scale abstractions at John Davis through Saturday. Besides working in his studio, Bromirski blogs at anaba. The charm […]
Who is Charline von Heyl?
Charline von Heyl at Friedrich Petzel, installation views. Charline von Heyl was born in 1960 in Germany and has been living and working in New […]
An artist’s estate
Louis B. Sloan, “Frost Valley in the Catskills,”1995, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Unlike most artists whose families quietly throw all their work in […]
Heffernan: “I grew up looking at a picture of Jesus”
Julie Heffernan,”Self Portrait as Budding Boy,” 2010, oil on canvas, 78 x 56″ In Art in America Perrin Drumm reports on a studio visit with […]
Amy Sillman: The O-G Volume 3
While visiting Amy Sillman’s exhibition at Sikkema Jenkins this month, readers can pick up the latest volume of The O-G for a buck. Folded inside the low-budget artist booklet is a small poster, “Some Problems in Philosophy,” sort of a crib sheet to understanding the famous philosophers and their theories, from Descartes through Derrida. In hand-drawn chart form, the poster (originally made as a drawing for the show) lists the “great” and “not so great” about each. In a postscript at the bottom Sillman advises readers not to worry about Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Elizabeth Grosz, and other women philosophers. “Women – who cares what they think?? Don’t even bother–probably minor stuff–[!]” In this terrific exhibition, Sillman drolly explores the battle between conceptual art and painting, latching onto the image of a lightbulb as both muse and model.
And the winner is�everybody
In March of this year, the Mindshare Awards, acknowledging innovative websites that support lifelong learning, creativity, professional skills, or social responsibility in 25 categories, were […]
Victor Pesce is dead
Victor Pesce, “Turn of the shoe,” 2009, oil on canvas, 18″ x 24 1/8″ Victor Pesce, “Coffee pot on a shelf,” 2009, oil on canvas, […]
Fiona Rae’s Special Fear
Fiona Rae, “Bold as a wild strawberry, sweet as a naughty girl,” 2009, oil and acrylic on canvas, 72″ x 59″ Fiona Rae, “It gets […]
On the waterfront
Last week I stopped by the opening of the Stonington Printmakers Society annual exhibition at Cate Charles Gallery in Stonington, Connecticut. With a 2005 grant […]
Jacqueline Humphries: Creating an illusion of being alive
Jacqueline Humphries presents new paintings at Modern Art in London this month. Here’s an excerpt from a conversation between Humphries and painter Cecily Brown in […]
Call for Entries: Art in Odd Places
Image from last year’s festival, in which the theme was “Signs.” Image courtesy Time Out New York. I just got a note from Cesar Jesena […]
Mark Greenwold: A writer’s painter
Mark Greenwold, “Secret Storm,” 1970-71, oil on canvas, 72 x 55 1/2″ Mark Greenwold, “Spanish Mediterranean Bedroom,” 1971, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 81 3/4″ […]
