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 […]
Month: November 2011
Renovations underway
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 […]
Free reading: M/E/A/N/I/N/G: A Journal of Contemporary Art Issues
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 […]
Sneaky funny in Ridgewood
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Artists Jonathan Terranova and Matthew Mahler opened Small Black Door in late 2010 to mount some interesting shows by emerging […]
Image of Pat Passlof
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 […]
Quick Study
Podcasts! Check out Tyler Green’s sponsored podcast interview with Charline Von Heyl (one of her paintings is pictured above) in which she explains how there […]
Richard Pousette-Dart’s East River studio
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 […]
Sadcore: Robert Yoder at Frosch & Portmann
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Robert Yoder’s new collages and paintings combined with found papers have a downbeat quality inspired by the sadcore music he’s […]
Elizabeth Gilfilen: Pugilist painter
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’s new paintings at Exit Art
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 […]
Quick study
Rosemary Trockel, Untitled, 1986, ink on lined notebook paper, 8 1/8 x 5 3/4″ SUPERDIGIT: EJ Hauser blogs about Rosemary Trockel, an artist who challenged […]
Vicki Sher: New work
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 […]






























