Alex Paik, “Hey, Hey Housetop,” 2009, mixed media, 8″ x8″ “Alex Paik: Playground Counterpoint,” Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA. Through September 25. “Not even as […]
Artist’s Notebook
Katherine Bradford at Edward Thorp
I live in a seaside tourist town (this weekend is the “Cabin Fever Festival”) so I’m surrounded by impressionistic paintings of boats, water, beach, drawbridge […]
Studio update: January Residency at Pocket Utopia
Contributed by Sharon Butler / I spent the week-long residency creating circle charts, which represent the point in my work where words and images intersect. […]
Mattera looks at shaped canvas: Pousette-Dart and Gorchov
Joanna Pousette-Dart’s show at Moti Hasson is down, but Joanne Mattera Art Blog has recently uploaded some pretty good images. “Pousette-Dart makes paintings that are […]
Studio Update: Summer progress
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Summer is usually a productive season for those of us who teach, but inevitably some things remain unfinished because gauging […]
Laurie Fendrich: Why do painters have to justify being painters?
Fendrich recently returned to New York from a stint as a Visiting Artist at Painting’s Edge, a summer painting workshop in Idyllwild, CA. She reflects […]
Studio update: Studio visits, exhibitions, new work
In preparation for a studio visit from collectors (and friends) over Fourth of July weekend, I manically re-organized the warren of attic rooms I’ve adopted […]
Laurie Fendrich: jetlagged visiting artist
For the next few days, Laurie Fendrich and husband Peter Plagens are the visiting artists at Painting’s Edge art colony in Idyllwild, California. They are […]
Studio update: Unplugged in Beacon
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In the July/August issue of The Atlantic Nicholas Carr wonders how the Internet is affecting our brains. “What the Net […]
Lost in Space: Art Post-Studio
This essay, which examines the evolving studio needs and expectations among contemporary artists, originally appeared in the June 2008 issue of The Brooklyn Rail.——- Contributed […]
Studio update: Itinerant painter
Contributed by SHaron Butler / Every professor has a wildly optimistic, first-day-of-summer-vacation “List of Things To Do.” Here’s mine. The most significant decision has been […]
America’s Lessness
My contribution to the April issue of The Brooklyn Rail considers the notion of readymade color, the implications of the current Whitney Biennial, and the […]
Non-bombastic: Blue and white, red
The fiercely-contested presidential election, energized by the Iraq debate, is bombarding us with patriotic imagery: the waving flags, the campaign buses plastered with candidate logos […]
IMHO: Don’t stop me if I’m repeating myself
“Deja Vu? Revealing Repetition in French Masterpieces,” organized by Eik Kahng. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD. Through Jan. 1. Phoenix Art Museum, January 20 through […]
BOMB Blog: Waterland Diaries by Joe Fyfe
“BOMB contributing editor Joe Fyfe is a painter and writer who has had solo shows of his paintings in New York, Paris, and Ho Chi […]
