Contributed by Julia Couzens / Paolo Arao�s exuberant textile paintings radiate a bracing freshness, like nautical flags snapping brightly in a cracking breeze. From a distance […]
Gallery shows
Bj�rn Meyer-Ebrecht: Spontaneity rising
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Contemplating Gerrit Rietveld�s furniture, especially the pieces he made from crates, Bj�rn Meyer-Ebrecht realized that utilitarian furniture can be sculpture, […]
Emilia Olsen: Visions of paint and flesh
Contributed by Katie Hector / Emilia Olsen�s paintings, on view in “There is Another Sky� at Arts + Leisure through May 12, spark curiosity. Channeling vulnerability […]
New Roads: Mark Sheinkman at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.
Contributed by Brian Dupont / I have long been engaged with Mark Sheinkman�s art. I was in grad school when I first came across an […]
Mira Schor casts a spell
Contributed by Heike Moras / A strand of melancholic stillness runs through each of Mira Schor‘s early Californian paintings, on view at Lyles & King through […]
Bobbie Oliver�s flood of associations
Contributed by�Robin Hill�/ Stepping into Bobbie Oliver�s solo exhibition �Residuals��at High Noon�triggers sensations of spaciousness, familiarity, and equanimity. Initially, the paintings invite narratives of how […]
Past, present, future: Lizbeth Mitty and Dana James
Contributed by Katie Hector / The handsome and evocative two-person show currently at M. David & Co. Gallery in Bushwick is the first public exhibition […]
Nancy Graves: Sorting the cosmic haze
Contributed by Jason Andrew / In 1959, British scientist and novelist C.P. Snow, struck by the inability of intellectuals and scientists to communicate and thereby […]
Rebekah Callaghan: Meditations on light and time
Contributed by Bea Huff Hunter / �I think I�ve been making the same painting for a long time and it just keeps ending in a […]
Gestures of grace: Carol Saft at Lesley Heller
Contributed by Julia Couzens / Carol Saft�s plainspoken exhibition, “Fallen Men,“ in the project space at Lesley Heller, is a suite of small-scaled, wall-based bronze figures engaged […]
Interview: Magalie Gu�rin�s multiple endings
Contributed by Sangram Majumdar / Last weekend Magalie Gu�rin and I met up at her current exhibition, SOLUTE at Chapter NY, to talk shop. We discussed the […]
Leslie Wayne: Burning down the house
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Now in her mid-60s, Leslie Wayne has had several impressive shows at Jack Shainman, but the work in her current […]
Judy Pfaff: Busting pictures to hell
Contributed by Jason Andrew / De Kooning once said, �Every so often a painter has to destroy painting.� Cezanne did it. Picasso did it. Then […]
Dennis Hollingsworth: Pushing paint and painting
Contributed by Riad Miah / Dennis Hollingsworth�s exhibition �Burgeoning,� the artist�s first solo show at Gallery Richard on the Lower East Side, comprises conventional paintings from […]
Dana Schutz, jogging alongside the train wreck
Contributed by Zach Seeger / In her new work on view at Petzel through February 23, Dana Schutz finds herself wielding the brush of post recession rapture […]
Matt Bollinger’s fictional universe
Contributed by Sangram Majumdar / Matt Bollinger‘s show, “Three Rooms,} on view at Zurcher Gallery through March 2, comprises paintings, maquettes of interiors, and a […]
Farley Aguilar�s screamingly urgent figurative paintings
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Farley Aguilar�s paintings, on view at Lyles & King, are based on vintage photographs of 1920s and �30s seaside beauty […]
Maya Brym: Exceedingly magnanimous
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Brooklyn artist Maya Brym�s vivid new paintings, on view at Frosch & Portmann through February 24, invigorate domestic life with […]
Beyond the legend: James Baldwin at David Zwirner
Contributed by Gabriel Fine / It seems oddly fitting that the exhibition “God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin” begins not with Baldwin’s […]
Fiction (and curatorial statement): THEY’RE MADE OUT OF MEAT
The following short story, “They’re Made Out of Meat,” was written by sci-fi writer Terry Bisson and published in Omni Magazine in 1990. An archly bizarre […]
