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 […]
Gallery shows
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 […]
Odd but frequent bedfellows, beauty and horror, on Long Island
Artist and critic Stephen Maine sends news that he has curated a show at Alpan Gallery in Huntington, Long Island, “Beauty Marks and Body Parts,” […]
I like line, too
Contributed by Sharon Butler / McKenzie Fine Art presents “Linear Abstraction,” which examines of a few of the ways in which artists are using line […]
Press release of the week: Marc Willhite “Tableaux” at kork
Chris Albert, mastermind of kork in Poughkeepsie, sent Two Coats of Paint the most amusing press release this week. “Basking in the glow of its […]
“In these scary times, investment in spiritual expansion may be the best investment of all”
In the NY Times Ken Johnson reports that “The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors” in Chelsea will close at the end of this month. “That may […]
NY TImes Art in Review: Loeb, Brown, Ackermann
“Damian Loeb: Synesthesia, Parataxic, Distortion, and the Shadow,” Acquavella, New York, NY. Through Oct. 7. Ken Johnson: “With its portentous Damien Hirst-like title, ‘Synesthesia, Parataxic […]
NY Mag’s fall painting picks
Giorgio Morandi: 1890–1964, Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY. Sept. 16–Dec. 14.“When the master of quiet still lifes died in 1964, he was unfashionable in New […]
Revisionaries: Tad Wiley, Laurie Fendrich, and Luke Gray at Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder/Project Space, which has primarily focused on historically rooted abstract art, is having its first exhibition of contemporary painting. In the NY Sun Stephen […]
NY Times Art in Review: Kannemeyer, Quabeck, Bessone, Nilsson, Dodge
“Anton Kannemeyer: The Haunt of Fears,” Jack Shainman, New York, NY. Through May 17. Ken Johnson: “A Tintin-style painting for a Bittercomix cover shows a […]
Anyone can have a dog
In the Palm Beach Daily News, Robert Janjigian chats with author William Secord. “‘The world of dogs is a very small one,’ said author William […]
Parlato and Saccoccio: retooling gestural abstraction
“Jackie Saccoccio: Interrupted Grid,” Eleven Rivington, New York, NY. Through Feb. 9.“Carolanna Parlato: Nature Games,” Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY. Through Feb. 2. In […]
Strassman, Kolodziejczyk, Slick in Boston
“Duane Slick: Paths of My Fathers,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA. Through Dec. 1. “Shadowy and elusive in both form and content. That makes them fascinating […]
In Boston: Hannah Barrett and Sharon Horvath
Sharon Horvath’s new series of densely layered line paintings at Victoria Munroe Fine Art is made with dispersed pigment and polymer on canvas. In the […]
NYTimes art reviews: Franks, Frankfort, de Balincourt, Calame
“NATALIE FRANK: Where She Stops,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY. Through Oct. 13. Martha Schwendener reports: “The real friction here comes from seeing a […]
