I have a writing deadline this week so posting will be scant, but I came across an interesting 2003 Bomb Magazine interview between Joe Fyfe […]

I’ve been meaning to give the blog a DIY design overhaul for a while, and the time has finally come–please bear with me while I […]

In August I was invited to contribute an essay to the 25th anniversary edition of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: A Journal of Contemporary Art Issues, an extraordinary collaboration […]

I love Alice Sebrell‘s photograph of Pat Passlof that ran with Pat’s obituary in the NYTimes. “A member of the New York school of Abstract […]

Richard Pousette-Dart, “Allemande,” 1951, oil on linen, 42 x 33 1/2″ From 1946-51, as Abstract Expressionism was taking hold of New York,  Richard Pousette-Dart lived […]

For Elizabeth Gilfilen�painting is a collision, an aggressive search in which the object and�maker are intimately, irrovocably entwined. Gilfilen’s exploration of�piercing color and gestural abstraction […]

 Rico Gatson, a group of small paintings from 2011 at Exit Art. Acrylic paint on wood with glitter, each about 18″ square. Top row: Untitled […]

Last week during a torrential downpour, I stopped by Vicki Sher’s Gowanus studio to check out a slew of new work, most of which is […]