Despite Matthew Wong’s relatively banal subject matter essentially, nature the way it is handled in the exhibition on view at Cheim and Read elevates the art and makes it enthralling, like secrets gently whispered.
Gallery shows
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide: July 2021
This month we’re recommending all the excellent group shows, especially the ones where old favorites hang next to younger artists who weren’t on our radar.
Invitation to Pause
“Pause” is a restful, thoughtful summer group show featuring Bill Albertini, Stephen Bron, Eric Brown, Sharon Butler, Peter Krashes, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Michelle Vaughan, and Andrew Witkin.
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide: June 2021
A painting-centric guide to art exhibitions in New York City, featuring Wendy White at Denny Dimin, Josh Abelow’s take on abstraction at Magenta Plains, and Alyssa Fanning at Platform Project Space.
Adam Simon and Anton Stankowski: Innovation, replication, mutation
“AS/AS: Anton Stankowski / Adam Simon” at Osmos Address explores the convergent interests of two artists, separated by 50 years, coming from two different fields, who had never met and whose work was unbeknownst to one another,.
Mark Joshua Epstein and art’s existential utility
Contributed by Zach Seeger / Mark Joshua Epsteins quietly inspiring exhibition A Change in Mood and Weather in The Skirt Space at Ortega y Gasset Projects embodies the artists move away from New York and formal recapitulation of the city in his work. The skirt is an around-the-corner hall of […]
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide: May 2021
Frieze New York arrives last week at the Shed in Hudson Yards for a four day post-lockdown reunion, but tickets are sold out, so perhaps you’ll want to check out the galleries instead. Don’t miss “Glyphadelphia” a big goup show at Hess Flatow, Keltie Ferris at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, and […]
Foraging and Landing: A conversation between Angelina Gualdoni, Fabienne Lasserre, and Sangram Majumdar
Contributed by Sangram Majumdar / I think I met Angelina first through a mutual friend Karla Wozniak when Karla and I were residents at the Sharpe Walentas Residency in 2009. Soon we realized we had other things in common, including MICA, where she went for a brief time. I met […]
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide: March/April 2021
Brooklyn Kentler International Drawing Space / Joanne Howard: Skid Marks / 353 Van Brunt St., Brooklyn, NY / April 10 to May 30 Peninsula Art Space / Mike Olin: Infinite Get / 352 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, NY / closes May 9 Pioneer Works / Patty Chang: Milk Debt video […]
Gallery crawl: Miller, Grabner, Pincus-Whitney, Boyle, Otero, Pope.L, Nelson, Arcangel
Contributed by Sharon Butler / I stopped by James Cohan on Grand Street to see Michelle Grabners beautiful show of small-scale paintings and panel pieces, sized like the cutting boards that inspired them. The paintings are based on textiles that Grabner altered by pulling threads out and creating grid-like patterns. The […]
