This Saturday take the L, the JMZ, or the G train to Brooklyn where the Williamsburg Gallery Association (WGA) presents Williamsburg Armory Night and Bushwick stages SiteFest. The organizers say it’s the dark side of Armory Week�where Brooklyn�s own and their worldwide conspirators throw a wickedly chic, secret celebration. Here […]
Gallery shows
Blogpix
Olympia Lambert, working with Denise Bibro Fine Art, has organized Blogpix at the Platform Project Space in Chelsea. Olympia has invited the Fallon and Rosof Artblog duo, Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof; Hrag Vartanian, and moi to curate an exhibition that relates to the theme of the Blogosphere, and by […]
Good drawing show in Culver City
At Kinkead Contemporary in Culver City, “Drawn” examines the role of drawing within an artist’s larger practice. The exhibition features four artists whose works on paper provide a deeper understanding of both their discipline and their process, while inviting the viewer deeper into the thinking behind their work in general. […]
Laurie Fendrich: Preparing for a retrospective
Last spring Mary MacNaughton invited Laurie Fendrich, a professor of fine arts and the director of the Comparative Arts and Culture Graduate Program at Hofstra University, to mount a retrospective at Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, in Claremont, CA. In Brainstorm, her weekly blog at The Chronicle Reveiw, […]
Joan Banach: GeoAb with a shot of vulgarity please
When Tom Micchelli stopped by Small A Projects, he was puzzled by Joan Banach’s dark, virtually monochromatic hard-edged abstractions that looked like they belonged in MoMA, circa 1959. Until he recognized her delight in the vulgar. “Not that her work is crass�on the contrary, it is the last word in […]
Thanks, Hank Hoffman, for writing about my project in Hartford
Hank Hoffman at Connecticut Art Scene reviewed “Lost and Found,” a show at the Connecticut Commission for Culture that includes my recent project “The Search For Moby Dicks.” Here’s what he had to say about it. “I took in ‘Lost and Found,‘ a show featuring works created by artists who […]
Phelan: “Its like fuss fuss fuss fuss fuss and then swish”
On the occasion of her recent exhibit “Ellen Phelan Still Life” at Texas Gallery, which was on view from December 11, 2008 to January 24, 2009, Rail Publisher Phong Bui paid a visit to Ellen Phelan’s Upper East Side home to talk about her life and work. Here’s an excerpt […]
Line: Evidence of movement and purpose
In Fearful Symmetry, Northrop Frye wrote that a “line is a denial of all inertia and paralysis, all doubt and hesitation…(it) is both movement and purpose: whatever the medium of the art, the line exists neither in time or space, but in their eternal and infinite union.” Poet Susan Goldwitz […]
Cindy Bernard: Can you hear me?
In the Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid writes that Cindy Bernard‘s poignant show at Boston Center for the Arts’ Mills Gallery evokes the far-flung community of ham radio operators who kept in touch long before the Internet and blogging made world-building so common. “Artist Cindy Bernard’s grandfather, Bill Adams, got his […]
Michael Dailey’s “painterly landscape abstraction” in Seattle
In the Seattle P-I, Regina Hackett writes about old-school painter Michael Dailey, “On the West Coast, from Northern California to Seattle, a gestural kind of painterly landscape abstraction took root in the 1950s and 1960s, sometimes but not always with figures in it. Prime movers included David Park, Joan Brown, […]
