Contributed by Sharon Butler / Despite our deep dive several years ago into Provisional painting and the Casualist tendency, a battery of questions continues to confront painters in […]
Gallery shows
An artist’s notes: Christina Tenaglia
Images by Julie Torres, text by Christina Tenaglia / In addition to drawing and keeping sketchbooks, artists often take notes throughout the process of making their […]
Artist�s statement: Tamalin Baumgarten
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Tamalin Baumgarten�s haunting paintings are inspired by the landscape, history, and people of Cuttyhunk, a small island off the coast of […]
Andrew Woolbright: Shrinebeasts
Contributed by Zach Seeger / In Andrew Woolbright�s current show “Expresso Your Depresso,” at ADA Gallery in Richmond,�Virginia, the artist creates a series of mixed […]
Roadtrip: The Clark, MASS MoCA, Bascom Lodge in Western Massachusetts
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Several weeks ago I returned to Mount Greylock, the highest peak in Massachusetts, where I was an artist-in-residence at Bascom […]
Barbara Laube�s coexisting states of mind
Contributed by Carol Diamond / What is the difference between being with a person and seeing a picture of her, FaceTime versus a coffee date, […]
A quiet roar: Build a house, dig a hole, in Hartford
Contributed by Neil Daigle-Orians / Walking in to Hartford’s Artspace Gallery, the viewer is immediately struck by a large, hand-painted green screen. Merging the analog with […]
Caroline Wells Chandler: Pied Piper of weirdness
Contributed by Jennifer Coates / I met Caroline Wells Chandler when he was an MFA student at Yale, and we immediately connected in a lunatic […]
Yevgeniya Baras: Impastoed strata
Contributed by Jason Andrew / Spend anytime out in the rural West, particularly the plains of southwest Texas, and you�ll discover the daunting challenge […]
Legacy of the hand: Paolo Arao�s textile paintings
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 […]
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 […]
