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 paintings were recently included in “Dying on Stage: New Painting in New York,” draws on history, making lovingly eroded small-scale canvases that abstractly illuminate aspects […]

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 selection includes one painting each by Carroll Dunham, Louise Fishman, Jonathan Lasker, Mary Heilmann, Bill Jensen, Stephen Mueller. Elizabeth Murray, Thomas Nozkowski, David Reed, Joan […]

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 Scale Factor, a group show about the importance of size relationships. Joy contributed a small shaped painting installation (pictured below) positioned on a large wall […]

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 much appreciated injection of vitality. The burgeoning contemporary art hub along the Ossington strip and west Queen West has garnered international attention and acclaim, and […]

 Fiona makes friends with the famous Fern at Norte Maar //          Ernie is intrigued by Peter Caine’s anamatronic platypus at AIRPLANE   Maanik Singh Chauhan at AIRPLANE  Gily Levy at AIRPLANE    Only the leashes keep them from friending Angelina Gualdoni‘s tiny baby at Regina Rex. […]

Loren Munk, “Soho Map,” 2005-2006, oil on linen, 60 x 72″ “Loren Munk: Location, Location, Location–Mapping the New York Art World,” Leslie Heller, New York, NY. September 7- October 16, 2011. Munk, who also chronicles the NYC artworld in the James Kalm Report, is all about connections. I’m looking forward […]

Andy Spence and Colin Thompson‘s abstract paintings are on display through the end of the week at STOREFRONT. Spence’s measured geometries and optical illusions hung side-by-side with Thompson’s gleefully scrawled characters remind me of siblings who have gone their separate ways but still find plenty to talk about. In the […]

  Contributed by Sharon Butler / Berlin-born and Marrakech-based, Katharina Wulff has been exhibiting in Europe for the past ten years and the current exhibition at Green Naftali, her second solo show in NYC, is a sequel to an exhibition presented last spring at Galerie Daniel Buchholz in Cologne. In […]