Sharon Butler, “Red Rimmed,” 2011, acrylic on canvas, 11″ x 14.” UPDATE(September 3, 2011): NURTUREart received a record number of submissions this year–over 600–and will […]
Month: August 2011
Not buying American optimism: Kevin Regan and Cooper Holoweski at STOREFRONT
Kevin Regan, collages from 1996 at STOREFRONT This weekend is the last chance to see Kevin Regan (co-director of Famous Accountants) and Cooper Holoweski‘s show […]
On DVD: Vik Muniz’s Waste Land
Vik Muniz, Woman Ironing (Isis), from the series “Pictures of Garbage”, 2008, AP1 of 3+3AP, digital C-Print, 143 x 101,6 cm /56,3 x 40 in, […]
QR Codes or abstract paintings?
Here are the QR codes I just created for my website and Two Coats of Paint. I’m tempted to make paintings of them, but alas, […]
A different side of Bushwick
In this clip from James Kalm Roughcut, Kalm asks Deborah Brown, curator of “Fresh Paint from Bushwick,” if there is anything about painting in Bushwick […]
Artist’s house for rent
This renovated historic house in a charming New England coastal village is available for rent, $2600 per month. 3 Bedrooms, 3 full baths, excellent […]
Lovely dark and deep (for a rainy summer Sunday)
Ezra Johnson, “The Time of Tall Statues (Still),” 2009, single channel video, duration: 14 minutes, Edition: 2/6 + 2AP. �Stopping by Woods on a Snowy […]
Tabletop projects at the 2012 College Art Association Annual Conference
Interdisciplinary artist Rachel Hines performs a work called Interview during ARTexchange in New York (photograph by Bradley Marks). This year I’m helping organize (and […]
Adam Tamsky’s American art
Contributed by Sharon Butler / One of my favorite galleries in New England has always been Adam Tamsky Fine Art, which specializes in paintings primarily […]
Summer in wartime
Todd James, “TBC,” 2011, gouache and graphite on paper, 30 x 22 1/2 inches. Images courtesy Paul Kasmin. “Pretty on the Inside,” an anxiety-provoking group […]
Double feature: Existential questions
Rafael Grassi, “Combattant,” 2011, oil on magazine paper I like the way the artists in “reCovered,” a collage show at Frosch and Portmann, fool around […]
Press Release of the Day: I am not monogamous, I heart poetry
Scooter Laforge, “Wolf Spider with Cigar and 4 German Shepherds,” 2011, oil on canvas; 32 x 40� Bobbie Oliver, “Untitled,” 2009, acrylic on canvas, 60 […]
Exchanging studio visits with Kadar Brock
A few weeks ago, Kadar Brock and I exchanged studio visits. I alluded to the meaning inherent in how an object is made and how […]
Video: Studying with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown
In preparation for “The Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America�s Oldest Continuous Art Colony 1899-2011” The New Britain Museum compiled a link list of […]































