Joan Semmel, Open Hand, 2015, oil on canvas, 66 x 48 inches. Donald Trump has made women’s bodies a central campaign issue during the 2016 […]
Author: Sharon Butler
Karen Pence is a painter
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Yes, Indiana’s First Lady Karen Pence likes to paint. Pence told the Indy Star that she studied art at Butler, […]
Update: Peter Soriano’s observations
Readers may recall that last May I held a public conversation with Peter Soriano on the occasion of his installation, �Permanent Maintenance� at the Colby […]
The act of making: Ryan Wallace at Susan Inglett
Ryan Wallace’s paintings are shaggy collages, pieced together from canvas strips, screens, tiles, metallic tapes, and found objects. His new work, on view at Susan […]
New geometries: Embracing narrative and content
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Zombie Formalism–innocuous abstraction employing a pastiche of art-historical references and made to fulfill undiscriminating art market demand–has given abstract painting […]
Sue Post: Intuitively chosen constraints
Contributed by Franklin Einspruch / Among several of my quixotic projects is to farm a heretofore neglected front yard for vegetables. It is, as they […]
Recommended reading
This edition includes links to upcoming Open Studio dates, Clyfford Still’s pastels, the Miami art fair participant lists, Thornton Willis upstate, the gold toilet at […]
Art and film: Bruce Conner, escape artist
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Evident in the transfixing Bruce Conner retrospective �Bruce Conner: It�s All True� at MoMA is a probing eye that seeks […]
Gregory Amenoff: Inside and Out
Contributed by Stephen Westfall / American abstraction was born in the landscape. Arthur Dove and Georgia O�Keeffe seem to have got there before anyone else, […]
Art and film: Growing up at 70 Hester Street with Thomas Nozkowski and Joyce Robins
Contributed by Casimir Nozkowski / I grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in a building that was once a synagogue, a whiskey […]
Andrew Witkin, Atlas Discussion #162
Contributed by Jeff Bergman / This conversation with Andrew Witkin took place via email after his 2016 exhibition at�Theodore Art in Bushwick. �It has been […]
Painting: Fall preview Manhattan edition
YES: Galleries are presenting a slew of good painting exhibitions this season. The most obvious trend seems to be the continued move away from abstraction […]
(Mostly) painting: Fall preview in Brooklyn (and Queens)
Our first preview of the fall season features primarily Brooklyn galleries–Bushwick, DUMBO, Gowanus, and Downtown. Look for me IRL on Friday, September 9, at Theodore:Art […]
Interview: Melissa Brown’s currency
Contributed by Emil Gombos / Melissa Brown is a painter, printmaker, animator, and performance artist whose practice often centers around �paper ephemera� and the manifestations […]
September resident: Marie Thibeault
In September Two Coats of Paint will be hosting Marie Thibeault for a seven-day residency. A professor of painting and drawing in the art department […]
