I recently received an email from Clara Lieu, an adjunct professor in the Illustration program at RISD. Lieu has partnered with Thomas Lerra, a manager […]
Author: Sharon Butler
Quick study
This week: Summer reading, teaching update (Parsons in the fall), Trump art, gallery closings, Picabia retrospective, and a visit to Cape Cod… Trump the muse […]
Last chance: Joanne Greenbaum’s glorious starts and fits
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The sheer ebullience and playfulness of Joanne Greenbaum’s big untitled abstract paintings, on display only through July 1 at Rachel […]
Neighbors: Marci MacGuffie @ 55 Washington
For artists who spend long hours working alone in the studio, the conversations that take place in the hallway with other artists are crucial. For […]
Collaboration: Archie Rand and Bill Berkson
Before poet and art critic Bill Berkson died earlier this month, he had been collaborating with artist Archie Rand on a re-working of “Room Tone,” […]
Men curating women
Last week “The Female Gaze, Part 2: Women Look At Men,” an exhibition that includes many rich and inventive paintings, opened at Cheim and Read. […]
Studio visit with Greg Drasler
Visiting an artist’s studio before a new body of work is packed and shipped off for a solo show can be a stirring experience. The […]
Street Smarts: Charles Goldman @ Songs For Presidents
Guest Contributor Mary Addison Hackett / I went to graduate school in Chicago with Charles Goldman and still remember one of the first pieces he […]
Nicole Eisenman and the triumph of painting
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Just about every piece in Nicole Eisenman�s nobly minatory exhibition �Al-ugh-ories� at the New Museum, up through June 26, pulses […]
Quick study
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 […]
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 […]
