“Geometrics: Waves, Roads, etc.,” Mary Heilmann’s upcoming show at 303 Gallery, will feature paintings on both canvas and handmade paper, glazed ceramics, and furniture sculptures. […]
Gallery shows
Last chance: Summer shows in Hudson and Beacon
Continuing my roadtrip north of the city, I headed west from the Berkshires to Hudson and Beacon, two more towns that have absorbed many […]
Roundup: Abstraction in Connecticut
Contributed by Sharon Butler / This summer painter Cary Smith takes a turn as a curator, organizing “This One�s Optimistic: Pincushion,” a raucous, salon-style exhibition […]
Vancouver Report: Lyse Lemieux at Republic Gallery
Guest Contributor Dion Kliner (Vancouver, BC) / John Singer Sargent enigmatically said, “A portrait is a painting with a little something wrong about the mouth.” […]
Halvorson and Hawkins: Two kinds of cool
One kind of cool is no-nonsense virtuoso paint-handling that calmly vivifies the world as it slowly turns, of the kind on display in […]
Providence report: Leigh Tarentino and Duane Slick
Iridescence is the unphotographable thread that runs through LeighTarentino‘s winter landscapes and Duane Slick‘s stripes and Coyotes on view at the Chazan Gallery in Providence. […]
David Gilbert: Documenting the lost moments
Who doesn’t love photographs of work-in-progress at artists’ studios? In his insightful and clever second solo show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, David Gilbert encourages […]
Keeting and Grill: Timeless energy
Each month Giampietro Gallery pairs painters for concurrent solo shows, and through October 5 Zachary Keeting and Clare Grill have work on display. Grill, whose […]
Rejecting the New: Abstract painting in the 1980s
This month New York painters and critics are talking about “Reinventing Abstraction,” an exhibition of paintings from the 1980s curated by Raphael Rubinstein. His incisive […]
Paintings made on the assembly line featured at Klaus Von Nichtssagend
At Klaus Von Nichtssagend, Sara Greenberger Rafferty has organized “Work,” an amusing exhibition of 50 small-scale paintings made by 16 artists exploring issues about labor, […]
The stories we tell: Four paintings at Regina Rex
In the second installment of their “Four Paintings” series, Regina Rex presents four huge figurative paintings, one each from accomplished artists Hannah Barrett, Linda Gallagher, […]
Curated by Richard Tuttle?? Yes.
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Pallazzola, Johann Christian Reinhart�s etching posted above, shows the view over Lago Albano toward the convent of Sta. Maria ad […]
Quick Study: Pocket Utopia’s first anniversary, the new neighbor
This Friday, 6-8pm, our favorite gallery, Pocket Utopia, will be celebrating its one-year anniversary on the Lower East Side with “Club Pocket Utopia,” a big […]
Christopher Joy settles on the floor
Contributed by Sharon Butler / I met Christopher Joy a couple years ago at A-Space Gallery in West Haven when our work was included in […]
Report from Toronto
Over the past decade or so, a slew of galleries have popped up in the west end of Toronto, giving the city’s art scene a […]
Introducing, the Two Coats Interns
A few weeks ago I decided to develop a small internship program, and I’m pleased to report that numerous talented artists, writers and designers actually […]
Roberta Smith scolds curators for the dearth of contemporary painting shows in NYC museums
“Maybe it [painting] appears that way [dead] if you spend much time in New York City’s major museums, where large group shows of contemporary painting […]
The Dog Report: Sunday in Bushwick
Fiona makes friends with the famous Fern at Norte Maar // Ernie is intrigued by Peter Caine’s anamatronic platypus at AIRPLANE […]
Pocket Utopia announces inaugural exhibition and preliminary artist roster
Readers may have read on Hyperallergic and The L Magazine that Pocket Utopia, one of the first galleries to open in Bushwick, is opening a […]
Drink, Draw, Discuss in DC
UPDATE (February 29, 2012): At 4pm on Saturday, March 3, Austin Thomas will wrap up her exhibition and salon series with a talk about her […]
