Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Like an eccentric Brooklyn character in a Paul Auster novel, Paul D�Agostino � writer, curator, Italian literature scholar, and resolute […]
Year: 2013
Jered Sprecher: The liar’s paradox
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Fearless painter Jered Sprecher counts quilts, children�s drawings, signage and gemstones among the diverse source material for his new work […]
Bonnie Flood: W’s painting teacher
In the last few months, the world learned that after George W. Bush left office more than four years ago, he took up painting. Images […]
Last chance: Thomas Nozkowski at Pace
Reminder: Thomas Nozkowski’s recent paintings are on view at Pace through March 23. If you haven’t seen the show yet, go. The newest work features […]
Brion Nuda Rosch: From vernacular to monumental and back
San Francisco artist Brion Nuda Rosch recycles detritus from daily life to create freestanding constructions and small collages that he considers “monuments for the everyday.” […]
Richard Jackson: A painter who has been asking “What if…?” since the 1970s
In images of his retrospective at the Orange County Museum, Los Angeles artist Richard Jackson (b. 1939) looks like a pretty frisky, indefatigable painter, inspired […]
At the Art Fairs: Christine Frerichs
This weekend at VOLTA, Gallery | KM from Santa Monica, CA, presented� Christine Frerich’s diminutive, thickly painted abstractions. Frerich’s work seemed out of place in […]
Armory Art Week: SOHO edition
I’ll be running around to the NYC art fairs this weekend, and my first stop is VOLTA to see Ian Toms paintings at SEASON. I […]
PORTFOLIO: Todd Kelly
Like Julian Kreimer, Todd Kelly embraces both representation and abstraction in his painting practice. At Asya Geisberg Gallery (today is the last day), Kelly captures […]
EMAIL: A note from Barbara Friedman
Hi Sharon, It was so nice of you and J to come [to the Soapbox at Studio 10] last night. We had to stay and […]
Toughen up, lady
Lately, exasperated by a custody dispute over my almost-14-year-old daughter, I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a woman, and more specifically, what […]
The donut muffin: Uniting two worlds
For Tamara Gonzales and Jessica Duffett, curators of “Donut Muffin,” a lively group show on view at Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Projects through March 10, a […]
Medium unspecificity prevails
At the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, curators Dina Deitsch and Evan Garza have organized “PAINT THINGS: beyond the stretcher,” an exuberant exhibition that focuses on work merging painting, sculptural form, video, performance, and installation strategies. The curators selected artists who are exploring materiality, context and space–physical, social, political, or emotional. I wish Clement Greenberg, the art critic who championed color and
flatness in the 1940s, could see the show. I wonder why painters were so intrigued with Greenberg’s notion of medium specificity back in the day?
2013: Neo-Neo-Expressionism?
In Art in America this month Raphael Rubinstein, after reading issues of AiA from thirty years ago, considers the fate of Neo-Expressionism, a movement popular […]
Julian Kreimer: Recognizable and contemplative
A few weeks ago I saw “Coming and Going,” Julian Kreimer’s absorbing exhibition at WEEKNIGHTS, a small gallery Jen Hitchings opened in Bushwick back in […]
