Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Ben Godward is at home with bright colors and exotic shapes. The New York sculptor has for some time been […]
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Marjorie Welish: Procedural difference, conceptual consequence
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Followers of post-election news coverage, despairing over rampant voter suppression, are bereft over the Electoral College electors’ unwillingness to cast their […]
Interview: Max Maslansky’s porn-painted sheets
Contributed by Rob Kaiser-Schatzlein / Max Maslansky is a Los Angeles painter who makes acrylic paintings on stretched pillowcases and bed sheets using imagery culled […]
Jacob Kassay: Familiarity superseding reflection?
Contributed by Sharon Butler/ In “H-L,” Jacob Kassay’s second�solo show at 303 Gallery, the artist has left behind�the silver-covered canvases for which he is best […]
Of note: Eric Brown, Suchness
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Eric Brown, co-director of Tibor De Nagy�Gallery,�has been a secret painter for years, and this month he had his first�NYC […]
Artists under duress: Max Beckmann
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Esteemed in Germany during the Weimar Republic but branded a “degenerate artist” by the anti-modern Adolf Hitler, the great expressionist […]
Zach Seeger’s surveillance
I asked Zach Seeger, artist�and co-director of This Friday Or Next Friday, a small gallery space in DUMBO, why he paints eyes. “I began painting […]
Quote: Kerry James Marshall
“I don�t believe in hope,� Kerry James Marshall said�in a recent interview with Wyatt Mason in the NYTimes.��I believe in action. If I�m an apostle […]
Studio visit: John Zinsser
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Two Coats of Paint recently stopped in at John Zinsser‘s sunny Greenpoint studio. Zinsser moved to New York in the […]
Michael Ottersen: Logic and intuition
Contributed by Erin Langner / When I walked into Season last week, I almost stepped on Summer Reading, a painting by Michael Ottersen. To be […]
Email: The deCordova Museum’s 2016 Biennial
The deCordova Museum’s Biennial exhibition in Lincoln, Massachusetts, is one of the most prestigious group shows in New England. Curators Jennifer Gross (soon departing) and […]
Christopher Manning’s semblances and manipulations
Contributed by Laura Farrell / Through Christopher Manning�s current solo show “Everything as Perfect as it Seems,” the Fine Arts Gallery at Westchester Community College […]
A lobby symposium: Federico, Haske, Loft, Osman, Porcaro & Saltz
The Standard Motors Building in Long Island City is home to a spacious lobby gallery, organized and maintained by Deborah Freedman and Marjorie VanDyke. Freedman […]
Allison Schulnik’s frenzied equestrian feminisms
Contributed by Torey Akers / Allison Schulnik�s current solo show at ZieherSmith, “Hoof II,” posits personal mythology as a material condition for world-building. Each heavily […]
Katie Bell’s Miami adventure
Contributed by�Rob Kaiser-Schatzlein /� Katie Bell‘s work, comprising scavenged construction debris, skirts the line between sculpture and assemblage. Bell combed Miami for a month to […]
