“The sketchbook practice is always something I return to when painting or any other more physical work seems too daunting. The intimacy is healing. It�s a safe […]
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Laura Owens: So much fun
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Laura Owens’s mid-career survey at the Whitney Museum features more than 60 paintings, many large-scale and hung salon-style, from the […]
On file: Leslie Brack at Cathouse Proper
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Offices were once equipped with typewriters, copy machines, and paperclips, and, of course, contained the files that organized and stored […]
Lisa Beck: So-called opposites
“I am attracted to related visual phenomena like positive and negative, pattern and randomness, color and grayscale, flatness and depth, representation and abstraction. I always […]
Jacqueline Humphries: The Matrix meets Cy Twombly
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In her ninth solo show at Greene Naftali, Jacqueline Humphries presents ten towering canvases that grapple with our relationship to […]
Roy Dowell and Richard Kalina: Standing their ground
Contributed by Marjorie Welish / “Synchronicity: A State of Painting,” an exhibition featuring work by Roy Dowell and Richard Kalina, on view at Lennon, Weinberg […]
Cary Smith�s hand-painted precision
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In his second solo at Fredericks & Freiser, Cary Smith presented a new group of his signature hard-edged abstractions. These […]
Laurie Sverdlove: Unsettled in Vermont
Contributed by Dian Parker / Vermont artist Laurie Sverdlove has been painting for four decades. In high school she took classes at the Art Students […]
Jeremy Hof: The elephant In the room
Contributed by Dion Kliner / A preamble: An elephant in a living room, as unlikely as it is to find one there, would never be mistaken for a couch. That is something of the situation that Jeremy Hof’s work puts one in; forcing the unfortunate necessity of bringing up the question of a particular piece being either painting or sculpture when an answer should be obvious and unnecessary. At this date the general question of something being either painting or sculpture is about as interesting as the question of whether something is art or not, and as equally productive (which is to say not at all). And yet here the question sits (I imagine it grinning), persistent and unavoidable.
Undergraduate Sketchbook: Phoebe Funderburg-Moore
“The practice of making my art public is a new one, because often drawing is a coping mechanism for me. Scanning & posting my drawings […]
Effects of chance: A conversation with Emily Berger
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Brooklyn painter Emily Bergeris a masterful scumbler, dragging brushes of dry paint across panels to create scratchy horizontal bands of […]
Of Latino descent: “Radical Women” in LA
Contributed by Katarina Wong / The Getty recently launched Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a highly ambitious and rewarding initiative that explores Latin American and Latino […]
A three-hour tour: Selected Bushwick galleries
Contributed by Sharon Butler / As some readers may remember, I went to the University of Connecticut for my MFA degree, and until last year, […]
Fernanda Fragateiro: Commemorative abstraction
Contributed by Marjorie Welish / The clearest innovation of Portuguese artist Fernanda Fragateiro‘s poignant exhibition, on view at Jose Bienvenu through November 4, is the […]
Studio visit with Margie Livingston: Dragged paintings
Contributed by Debbi Kenote / Staring at a large pin board in Margie Livingston’s Seattle studio, artist Til Will and I observe a collage of […]
Peter Halley: The new unreality
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In his first solo show at Greene Naftali, Peter Halley contends with the new American reality of an increasingly shameless and authoritarian state under which, despite the best efforts of an overstretched free press and an embattled political opposition, the difference between fact and fiction has become increasingly obscured. Halley has outfitted the cavernous gallery with metallic floor-to-ceiling digital prints, tweaked lighting, a handful of his signature paintings, and intermittent sound emissions to create a disturbing sense of unease and “topsy-turvy disorientation. In the back room, as a mordant coda, Halley has included one of Robert Morris’s 1978 sculptures made of classical architectural fragments and a distorting fun house mirror.
Pierre Coupey: Beyond the borders
Contributed by Dion Kliner / Over the course of more than five decades as a non-representational painter Pierre Coupey has deliberately avoided settling into a […]
Skulptur Projekte orbits M�nster
Contributed by Loren Britton / When Skulptur Münster began in 1977, no one expected it to continue beyond its first iteration. In the early 1970s, […]
Bushwick Open Studios 2017, Part 2
Contributed by Katie Fuller / Last weekend, Bushwick Open Studios did not disappoint. The mood was uplifting and the studios were full of artistic spirit. […]
Leslie Wayne: Beyond painterly
Contributed by Sharon Butler and Jonathan Stevenson / Leslie Wayne, in transcendently clever new work on view at Jack Shainman Gallery through October 21, has […]













































