A selected guide to painting-centric art exhibitions in the Hudson Valley, loosely organized by neighborhood.
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NYC Selected Gallery Guide: June, 2023
The summer group shows have arrived! A painting-centric guide to art galleries in NYC, Brooklyn, and Queens.
NYC Selected Gallery Guide: May, 2023
The best guide for painting-centric art exhibitions in New York.
Hudson Valley Selected Gallery Guide: May, 2023
This month marks the beginning of the fourth year since the pandemic drove the art community upstate, and, as readers can see from our selected guide, the gallery scene continues to expand and thrive. Seasonal spaces such as the Re Institute are reopening and the hardy year-rounders are gearing up for their busiest season yet.
The feeling of order: Helen Frankenthaler, Trevor Shimizu, and Wallace Stevens
Contributed by Elizabeth Scheer / As the city transitions into solstitial warmth, two stand-out exhibitions reward the corresponding sense of emergence. Helen Frankenthaler’s “Drawing within Nature: Paintings from the 1990s,” on view at Gagosian, and Trevor Shimizu’s “Cycles” at 47 Canal are preoccupied with what the American poet Wallace Stevens described in his poem “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction” as the discovery of “order as of a season.” Both exhibitions feature pastoral scenes that impressionistically use color, texture, and line to reveal patterns in the apparent arbitrariness of the natural elements they aim to represent.
NYC Selected Gallery Guide: April, 2023
Painting-centric guide to exhibitions in NYC galleries
Hudson Valley Selected Gallery Guide: April, 2023
On April 19, 1783, George Washington issued the Proclamation of Peace, which ended the war between the United States of America and the King of Great Britain. Think about that when you are traipsing around the Hudson Valley this month, looking for art.
NYC Selected Gallery Guide: March, 2023
What to see: This month, on the Lower East Side, we recommend Two Coats contributor Riad Miad’s solo show at Equity Gallery and Chris Dorland’s show at Lyles & King. In Brooklyn, look for Jessica Weiss at 490 Atlantic, and note that Sheila Pepe has curated a show at Platform Project Space that opens March 2. We’ve never been to Field of Play in Gowanus, so we’re going to try to get over there to see Hopscotch, with Alyson Ainsworth, Kat Chamberlin, and Leonora Loeb. CLEARING is opening a new space at 260 Bowery at the end of the month, with a big group show called “Maiden Voyage.” In Chelsea, who can resist “Ass Backwards,” philisophical wise-ass David Humphrey’s latest at Fredericks & Freiser? And we’ll try not to forget Josephine Halvorson’s “Unforgotten,” which opens at Sikkima Jenkins on March 17. The news from our neighbors in the global art world is that Gerhard Richter, who left Marian Goodman Gallery last year, is having his inaugural show at Zwirner this month, featuring “new and recent abstract works.”
Hudson Valley Selected Gallery Guide: March, 2023
This past week members of the Two Coats staff were in Baltimore where we met a talented young curator who grew up spending summers near the Hudson Valley. She told us that the last time she was at the family cabin, she couldn’t believe how the area has become such a magnet for so many NYC area artists and galleries. But it’s true. Here’s our selected guide for March.
Circumstantial: Elizabeth Hazan, Allison Gildersleeve, and Tracy Miller
After a conversation with Elizabeth Hazan about how Allison Gildersleeve and Tracy Miller’s paintings in “Kitchen Sink,” their current exhibition at Hazan’s Platform Project Space in DUMBO, related to her own work in the studio, Two Coats of Paint prevailed on Hazan to engage them in a conversation for publication.
