This week: Coney Art Walls, job postings, Art Basel report, painterly photographs, residency news from Sharpe Walentas and the Elizabeth Foundation Studio Program (residents announced […]
Author: Sharon Butler
Chicago: Adam Scott at Julius Caesar
Contributed by Robin Dluzen / Adam Scott�s latest exhibition, “Silent Running” at Julius Caesar in Chicago, is a kind of Helen-Frankenthaler-color-field-painting-meets-Gram-Parsons-desert-pilgrimage experience. The works are […]
Rethinking Howard Hodgkin
For decades, Howard Hodgkin (b. 1932, London) has been known for turning his memories and experiences into brushy, colorful paintings on old wooden panels. He […]
Storage or dumpster? Organizing the archives
Readers who have been following Two Coats of Paint since the beginning know that for ten years I taught at a state university in Connecticut […]
Installation view: Drishti, a concentrated gaze
Gallerist Elizabeth Heskin and artist Patricia Spergel, in collaboration with the NURTUREart Registry of Artists and Curators, have assembled a lively exhibition of contemporary […]
Art and Film: Robert Cenedella�s legitimacy
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Victor Kanefsky�s effervescent documentary Art Bastard casts 76-year old New York painter Robert Cenedella as a kind of aesthetic Robin […]
David Rhodes: Events and incidents
Contributed by Sharon Butler / I met David Rhodes (b. 1955, Manchester, UK) in a Greenwich Village loft where his black and white paintings, both […]
David Reed: A painter’s life
At Peter Blum, the looping brushstrokes and open surfaces of David Reed�s remarkably spare site-specific installation are anything but casual. Entering the gallery, the viewer […]
Art and Film: Eva Hesse�s enduring disruption
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Eva Hesse, as portrayed in Marcie Begleiter�s superlatively penetrating Eva Hesse, sadly but exquisitely zoned in on mortality as the […]
Brushwork: Philip Guston 1957-1967
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Here’s a quote and some images by Philip Guston: “I do not see why the loss of faith in the […]
Picks: Sharpe-Walentas Open Studios
Two years ago the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program joined forces with the Walentas Family Foundation, the philanthropic element of Two Trees Management Company […]
Art and film: David Hockney’s world
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / David Hockney, in Randall Wright’s rather breezy documentary Hockney (at Film Society of Lincoln Center, extended through June 2), appears […]
Trudy Benson: Cheerfully kinetic, but…
In her solo show at Half Gallery, Trudy Benson presents easel-size paintings that continue her riff on the digital imagery of early paint software like […]
Quick study
Links to Nicole Eisenman’s shows, Morley Safer’s paintings, reviews of recent abstraction shows, a writing competition, and the paintings being called “anti-Catholic” in Virginia –> […]
Artist’s notebook: Adam Simon
Adam Simon could best be described as a conceptual painter. Based in Brooklyn, he has been painting and organizing community projects like Four Walls and the Fine Art Adoption Network for more than 25 years. Lately, though, he’s put community projects aside to work in the studio, where his ironically elegant new abstract paintings riff on the imagery of commercial logos.
“Bill and Ted” at Freddy (new location)
The formerly mysterious Baltimore gallery Freddy has relocated to an old church in Harris, New York, a small town between Liberty and Monticello of Route […]
Preview: Bernard Piffaretti’s doubles in Berlin
If you’re in Berlin in June, don’t miss French painter Bernard Piffaretti’s show at Klemm’s. Pifferetti (b. 1955 in Saint-Etienne, France) is known for painting […]
Interview: Justine Hill in Bushwick
I first saw Justine Hill‘s paintings in “Metamodern,” a 2015 group show at Denny Gallery that explored the contemporary fusion of Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and […]
Catalogue essay: Kirsten Swenson on Peter Soriano’s Permanent Maintanence
Kirsten Swenson originally wrote this catalogue essay for Permanent Maintenance, Peter Soriano‘s wall drawing project, on view through August 21, 2016, at the Colby College […]
IMAGES: Student work
Since I skipped the art fairs last week, I had time to stop by a few vibrant (but short-run) student exhibitions. Here are images of […]
