Deborah Brown�s virtuoso paintings feature rich color and tangled, looping brushstrokes that slip and slide. They embody restless exuberance. An insatiable and prolific painter, Brown […]
Author: Sharon Butler
Catalogue essay: Robert Storr on Elena Sisto
UPDATE: On Saturday, April 2, at 2 pm, Elena Sisto and Tom Burckhardt, who has a solo show opening at Gregory Lind in San Fransisco […]
Quick study
This week we have links to the 2016 Shandaken residents, publication news, Art Basel Hong Kong, the NADA New York roster of exhibitors, the Turner […]
Laurie Sloan: The truth is out there
When I was invited to curate an exhibition at EBK Gallery in Hartford, I decided to organize a solo show of prints by Laurie […]
Link list: Recommended exhibitions around town
If you have time to see some exhibitions in New York, here are a few promising shows to check out around town. In case you […]
Lynne Harlow: Color and light
Lynne Harlow‘s elegant and evocative show at Minus Space is a meditation on the inextricable relationship between color and light. In the ten works on […]
Interview: Crystal “Kitty” Shimski with Dennis Kardon
Guest contributor Crystal “Kitty” Shimski, widely admired in the art community as a freelance Intuitive Technique Specialist and part-time Trance Inducer. Kitty usually contributes our […]
Interview: Medrie MacPhee in Ridgewood
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Medrie MacPhee’s pensively beautiful paintings first came to my attention at the 2015 American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibit. The paintings she had in the show, abstract with architectural references, featured deconstructed pieces of clothing subtly collaged onto the surfaces. MacPhee is a very accomplished artist. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, she earned her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and then, in 1976, moved to NYC. Since then, she has racked up numerous shows and awards, including a Guggenheim, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, an Elizabeth Greenshields Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Grants, and Canada Council Established Artist Grants. After 25 years in a loft on the Bowery, she and her partner–filmmaker Harold Crooks–moved to Queens, where they bought a small building with first-floor garage that MacPhee has turned into a studio. We talked about image, process, surface, content, and the impulse to add clothing to her canvases.
Report: Women Art Critics in the Age of the Internet / Open Studio with Peter Scherrer
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, […]
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 […]
