Some of the free stuff I collected at the NY Art Book Fair. Last night I went to the preview for the 2011 NY Art […]
Month: September 2011
Elizabeth Hazan and Jennifer Riley at Janet Kurnatowski
Elizabeth Hazan, “Untitled (Across the Universe),” 2011, oil on canvas, 2011, 24 x 30″ Elizabeth Hazan and Jennifer Riley present buoyant abstraction at Janet Kurnatowski […]
Social practice: Austin Thomas and Julie Torres
I stopped by Austin Thomas’s studio yesterday where she and Julie Torres were deep into a twelve-hour artmaking session.
Twitter notes
Here are some recent items cut and pasted from the Two Coats Twitter Feed. For readers unfamiliar with Twitter, “RT” indicates the item has been […]
Painters as storytellers: The Mill and The Cross
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “The Way to Cavalry,” 1564. Located in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna When I was an art history undergrad at Tufts […]
Stephen Mueller has died of cancer
Stephen Mueller, “Roland,” 2010, acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of Lennon Weinberg. According to Roberta Smith in the NYTimes, Stephen Mueller, 63, died on Sept. 16 […]
Talking about his art: Fred Valentine
BOMB magazine’s BOMBsite has posted a video interview with painter Fred Valentine. Valentine was a big part of the early Williamsburg art scene and recently […]
Two Coats reviews The Joe Bonham Project @ Hyperallergic today
Victore Juhasz, “Portrait of SGT Jason Ross–USMC (Full Frontal),” 2011 I reviewed “The Joe Bonham Project” @ Hyperallergic today. Curated by New Criterion managing editor […]
Guts and Glory?
Jarrett Min Davis, “Ambush at the Pass,” 2011, oil on canvas. On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, ten years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq […]
Exhibition notes
Continuing my exploration of alternative venues this fall, I am showing a few paintings from the Brightly Colored Separates series (2010) and a new small […]
When the personal infiltrates the formal
Todd Chilton, “Ramps and Flags,” 2011; oil paint on linen; 25 x 23� Is it too late to continue with the Fall Preview posts? Here’s […]
Fall preview for painters (continued)
Clint Jukkala, “Inside Out,”2010, oil and acrylic on canvas, 16″ x 20” I’ll be in New Haven this week installing a few paintings for […]
Fall preview for painters
Loren Munk, “Soho Map,” 2005-2006, oil on linen, 60 x 72″ “Loren Munk: Location, Location, Location–Mapping the New York Art World,” Leslie Heller, New York, […]
Fervent geometry at McKenzie Fine Art
This past week my in-box has been jammed with announcements for shows that open in the next couple weeks. Here are a few images from […]
Leave of absence
A few recent paintings in the studio. Putting together the previous post about artists who write, I was reading Laurie Fendrich’s latest post at the […]
