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Alex O�Neal: Hiding Places in a Dream
Contributed by Katarina Wong / Alex O�Neal is an artist based in Cooperstown, New York, whose recent show �Hiding Places in a Dream� at Linda […]
Two Coats of Paint Resident Artist: Jim Shrosbree
This month Two Coats of Paint welcomes�Jim�Shrosbree�to the studio�for a seven day�artist’s residency.� A professor of painting and drawing at�Maharishi University�in Fairfield, Iowa, Shrosbree uses�diverse�materials […]
A.I.R. artists at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Last year I visited Jayanthi Moorthy‘s studio and suggested she get in touch with Kathryn Myers, a UConn colleague of […]
Picabia: A curious man
Contributed by Katie Fuller /� “Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction,” the Francis Picabia exhibition at MoMA, tells a story of […]
Email from Kelsey Miller: Printmaking at the Housatonic Museum
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In an exhibition on view at the Housatonic Museum in Bridgeport, wildlife trafficking, environmental�conservation, sexuality, religion, gender, and the illusion […]
On the road: Yogyakarta, Indonesia (Part 1)
Contributed by Elana Herzog / In January, I spent a week in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on the island of Java, where I had a glimpse of […]
Douglas Witmer’s simplicity
Contributed by Becky Huff Hunter / It is timely that Douglas Witmer�s solo exhibition, �Dubh Glas� at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (TSA) in Philadelphia, opened shortly […]
A better bonfire at the Whitney: Painting from the 1980s
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / “Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s,” the Whitney’s trenchant exhibition of American work, immediately recalls the Reagan era, when bluffness […]
Studio visit with Lucia Hierro
Contributed by Kate Liebman / On Valentine�s Day I visited Lucia Hierro in her studio in the Bronx�where she�has�been working for more than two years. […]
Virtuosity: David Humphrey at Fredericks & Freiser
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / David Humphrey’s visual and intellectual virtuosity — augmented by the smooth surface finality of meticulously applied acrylic paint — is such that he seems to accomplish everything he wants in a given painting. Each one in his current exhibition “I’m Glad We Had This Conversation,” at Fredericks & Freiser, stands as a cohesive essay — establishing a theme, teasing it out, and offering a witty take. If that sounds too neat and squared away for a mode of expression that is supposed to register some mystery and wonder, it is’t. There is constructive enigma in Humphrey’s purposeful, highly-wrought approach.
Quick study
This week: Links to a painting review of Mimi Lauter’s show in LA, the winner of the 2017 White Columns/Shoot the Lobster Award, Anish Kapoor […]
Snow day reading
Stack of reading: Two issues of Shifter (edited by Sreshta Rit Premnath and Avi Alpert); exhibition catalogues from Claude Tétot, Frederique Lucien, Corinne Laroche; Pin […]






































