Cecily Brown, a painter who recently left the Gagosian stable and has a show at Maccarone this month, parents a six-year-old daughter with architecture critic […]
Author: Sharon Butler
Your May Horoscope! by Crystal “Kitty” Shimski
Transcribed by guest contributor Jennifer Coates / Kitty divides her time between New York City and Montauk. She is a freelance Intuitive Technique Specialist and […]
Roadtrip: Beacon, NY
Beacon is best known in the art community as the home of Dia:Beacon, but there are plenty of other things to do in town. Karlyn […]
Art and Film: Hell and high fashion
By Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Kurt Cobain, the prince of grunge who took his own life in 1994 at age 27, would have disdained […]
On procrastinating: Gwyneth Leech
“Two new directions began to develop as I was winding down a portrait series in 2010. One involved daily drawing and painting on used paper […]
Focus: Melodie Provenzano
Last year Laura Hutson wrote in Nashville Scene that Melodie Provenzano�s playful paintings “land somewhere between Jeff Koons kitsch and Takashi Murakami cute … bridging […]
Report: “Command-Z” at Improvised Showboat
Improvised Showboat, a curatorial project developed by artists Zachary Keeting and Lauren Britton, mounted its seventh one-night show this past weekend in my new […]
Web world: The New Museum’s 2015 Triennial
Entering the New Museum’s 2015 Triennial “Surround Audience” is like stepping into someone else�s search history. If you�re passionate about the same information that he […]
Peter Halley: Hyperreal
Contributed by Sharon Butler / When I stopped by the Florence Griswold Museum during a snowstorm in mid-March to see Peter Halley‘s retrospective, the glowing […]
Your Monthly Horoscope! by Crystal “Kitty” Shimski
Transcribed by guest contributor Jennifer Coates / Kitty divides her time between New York City and Montauk. She is a freelance Intuitive Technique Specialist and […]
Diana Copperwhite: I think about what the paintings can’t do and then I try to do it
On the occasion of her solo show at Kevin Kavanagh in Dublin, Diana Copperwhite, born in Dublin in 1969, had the following conversation with Irish artist Helen O’Leary. They discuss Ireland’s literary and visual traditions, the importance of scale, optics, and how technology has taken hold in Copperwhite’s work. “Painting is so physical but has the potential to do something very different to other media,” she tells O’Leary. “Aspects of technology are almost hypnotic and trance-like and this creates a space in my paintings that gives rise to what you might consider the psychedelic.”
Please join me: upcoming events in April, May, and June
Hello readers, I have a few events coming up and I want to make sure everyone is invited. First: A plug for the Art F […]
The Painter of Modern Life, command-z, and the resurgence of abstraction
The Internet, especially through social media, facilitates a direct and immediate connection between interior and exterior worlds, and I have little doubt that this recent […]
Image of the Day: Ellen Siebers
I stopped by Matteawan Gallery in Beacon yesterday to check out Ellen Siebers’ winsome show before it closes on Sunday. Siebers paints an assortment […]
Craig Taylor: Data bust
In his witty new paintings, Brooklyn painter Craig Taylor empties traditional portrait bust forms of facial detail and fills the silhouettes with strata of […]
