Sharon Butler, “Brightly Colored Separates 6,” (detail) 2010, oil on canvas, 30″ x 40″ This month my paintings will be in “On Display,” an exhibition curated by Hrag Vartanian, with work by Cathy Nan Quinlan and Joy Curtis at STOREFRONT. Stop by the opening on Friday, August 6, 6 – […]
Gallery shows
Lisa Yuskavage on the long, slow read
This week at Time Out New York in T.J. Carlin’s Studio Visit column, she asks Lisa Yuskavage who or what has most inspired her. Yuskavage reponds that courses she took with art historian and painter Andrew Forge had a big impact on how she approaches painting. […]
Charles Cohan: Losing the original amidst repetition
Charles Cohan, “MGP09.X-XVII,” 2010, colagraph print, 46 x 40,” edition of one. For the next day or two, I’ll be lurking around the museums and galleries in DC. One of my favorite DC galleries is Curator’s Office, Andrea Pollan’s micro-gallery/office space on 14th Street. She shows small-scale […]
The anti-disembodied
On view at the Whitney: Dawn Clements, “Mrs. Jessica Drummond’s (‘My Reputation,’ 1945), ” 2010, pen with ink on paper, 87.5 x 240.” Collection of the artist; courtesy Pierogi, New York In the February issue of The Brooklyn Rail, the ARTSEEN editors and advisory committee applaud Roberta Smith for the […]
NY Times Art in Review: Silke Otto-Knapp
Silke Otto-Knapp, “Three Sisters,” 2009, watercolor and gouache on canvas, 39 1/2 x 51″ Silke Otto-Knapp, “Group (walking),” 2009, watercolor and gouache on canvas, 59 x 47 1/4″ SILKE OTTO-KNAPP: Interiors, Gavin Browns Enterprise, West Village. Through Saturday. Roberta Smith: Silke Otto-Knapps paintings often dwell on those marginalized by modernism, […]
Last chance: Dawn Black at Curator’s Office in DC
Curator’s Office, a tiny corner space in one of DC’s few gallery buildings, has one more day with Dawn Black‘s mysterious and delicately painted watercolor, ink, and gouache works on paper. Black paints small-scale portraits of individuals wearing masks, uniforms, couture fashion, prison garb, ethnic attire, and other random eccentric […]
Guston: Laugh out loud?
On Spring Break this week, I’ve been invited down to DC for a day or two where, besides staying in a swanky Jetson-style hotel, I’m looking forward to visiting a few galleries at Logan Circle and stopping by the National Gallery of Art to see the permanent Mel Bochner installation […]
Pepe brings old-school lesbian feminist imagery to Las Vegas
Sheila Pepe’s collaborative installation, “Yo Mama” is on view in Las Vegas through the end of the month. In the Las Vegas Weekly Danielle Kelly reports that the flying crocheted form suspended from all corners of the main gallery is spidery in its organic accumulation, and appears to be many […]
Brooklyn: Saturday Night Fever
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 […]
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 […]