On Wednesday evening at Ceres Gallery, I participated in a panel discussion with Jill Conner (art critic, founder of artists-studios.com), Amy Lipton (curator, arts writer, […]
Author: Sharon Butler
Art on paper — and in practice
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Like VOLTA, the Art on Paper fair on Pier 36 was a modestly gauged and user-friendly alternative to the massive […]
2016 Spring/Break Art Show Quiz (with answers)
UPDATE: We have a winner! The identities of the artists have been posted below. Thanks to all the readers who participated–I enjoyed the show and […]
Isa Genzken: Framing and referencing empty space
�I do not want to take away space with my sculptures. I add space.� –Isa Genzken Guest Contributor Peter Dudek / Isa Genzken�s sculpture Two […]
Caroline Wells Chandler and the in-between
Guest Contributor Loren Britton / First of all, where are we? Am I dreaming? Do swimmers swim underwater and I am looking at them in […]
Justine Frischmann at VOLTA (and everything else)
Justine Frischmann, whose elegant new paintings on aluminum can be found in a solo exhibition at George Lawson’s area, was spotted with her Two Coats […]
Schedule: Summer plans
Here are two programs readers who are interested in taking a course with me or applying for a mentored NYC residency this summer might consider. […]
Chelsea Picks, 17th to 25th Streets
Contributed by Sharon Butler / If you have a couple of hours to see some painting exhibitions in New York, but you can’t bear going […]
Impressionable: Print exhibition @ Real Art Ways
Artist-curator John O’Donnell has organized a massive print show in Hartford, Connecticut: “Multiple Impressions,” the Fifth Connecticut Printmakers Invitational, on view at Real Art Ways […]
Geometric Abstraction update in DC
The best geometric abstraction goes beyond the formal arrangement of line, shape, and color to connect with larger themes and issues. In “GEOMETRIX: Line, Form, […]
Quick study
Articles to read this week include a guide to the art fairs, gallery closing news, a reconstructed Barnett Newman painting, many thank yous, a painting […]
Body parts: Clarity Haynes, Catherine Haggarty and Ginny Casey
The galleries are teeming with body parts this month. At Stout Projects, Clarity Haynes presents a series of bracing, carefully observed, truncated torsos of older […]
Catalogue essay: Robert Storr on Rick Briggs
Robert Storr originally wrote the following catalogue essay about Rick Briggs‘s unusual paintings, and he has graciously allowed Two Coats of Paint to republish it. […]
Two Coats of Paint Resident: Peter Scherrer
I’m pleased to announce that West Coast painter Peter Scherrer is arriving on March 11 for a seven day artist’s residency at Two […]
Paul D�Agostino�s pictorial discursiveness
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Given the demonstrated capability, energy, and ambition of Bushwick artist, gallerist, and all-purpose cultural maven Paul D�Agostino, that he would […]
