Iridescence is the unphotographable thread that runs through LeighTarentino‘s winter landscapes and Duane Slick‘s stripes and Coyotes on view at the Chazan Gallery in Providence. […]
Year: 2013
Painting of the Day: Scott Reeder @ Lisa Cooley
Detroit artist Scott Reeder’s compelling show at Lisa Cooley is full of wise-ass text-based work that features masking, airbrush and more. In the back room, […]
Studio visit: Matthew Langley and the palette knife
My neighbor and fellow abstract painter Matthew Langley and I have always agreed that process is important–that how an abstract painter paints is as revealing […]
An invitation: Water, Water…
Kianga Ellis Projects is hosting �Water, Water� 8 Strange Days in the City That Never Sleeps,� an exhibition organized by artist Edie Nadelhaft that considers […]
LOVE: Robert Indiana’s hard-edged visual essays
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / �Robert Indiana: Beyond Love� at the Whitney unabashedly aims to extricate the artist from the public�s myopic reduction of his […]
IMAGES: Heather Leigh McPherson
Obsessive second-guessing, arguments with herself, and indecision all figure prominently in Heather Leigh McPherson’s painting process. A few weeks ago I stopped by her post-industrial-park […]
Saltz pens a bad review: Eggerer at Petzel
I recently criticized Jerry Saltz for his group scold of contemporary painters, and today on the Vulture blog Saltz names a name, slamming Thomas Eggerer’s […]
EMAIL: Vancouver (continued)
After reading guest contributor Dion Kliner’s post about Darcy Mann’s October exhibition in Vancouver, a reader suggested that we write about what’s going on in […]
Darcy Mann: A tangle of layers
Guest contributor: Dion Kliner / Vancouver BC / The German author Goethe wrote, �Men must retire from the world from time to time, for the […]
Weekend Report, Part 2: Wool, Belcourt, Ellison, Kane, Motherwell and more
Following up on Part 1, Part 2 of my Weekend JPEG Report includes a trip to the Guggenheim to see the Christopher Wool 30-year retrospective, […]
The Weekend Report, Part 1: Beat Nite 9 in Bushwick, and the EFA Open Studios
Here’s a JPEG report from a busy weekend that included a slew of studio visits, and Bushwick’s Beat Nite. I also got a chance to […]
Last chance: Julian Pretto’s artists, at Minus Space
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Back in the 1970s, when impoverished, downtrodden New York City was on the verge of bankruptcy, gallerist Julian Pretto would […]
Search: MFA art programs, inexpensive, top 10 MFA programs, bigstudios, graduate assistantships
Last year ArtInfo ran a post called “The 10 MFA Programs That Give You the Most Bang For Your Buck” and I was surprised that� […]
Serious Sol LeWitt
Paula Cooper recently presented a sensational installation of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #564, which was originally conceived for the 1988 Venice Biennale. I was knocked […]
Search of the Day: Ted Cruz + painting
We can all heave a sigh of relief that the insane Ted Cruz strategy precipitating the government shutdown and a near economic collapse is finally […]


































