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Friday, January 27, 2023
There is a bit of urgency to get out and see some shows in the next few weeks because it looks like we might be faced with another wave of Covid and, thus, another lockdown. In related news, the election is underway, so don’t forget to go out and vote. […]
Contributed by Karen Schifano / Reacting to the overtly emotional critical response to Abstract Expressionism, Frank Stella sought to refine Greenbergian formalism by reducing painting to its value as an object and nothing more. He is famous for saying, �What you see is what you see,� and influenced an entire […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Walking into Michelle Vaughan�s show at Theodore:Art, visitors are confronted with a small oak bookcase, desk, and chair in the center of the gallery. The walls are lined with forty framed portraits of notable conservative women, meticulously rendered in faded pastels on gray paper, that […]
Contributed by Patrick Neal / I�ve been thinking a lot about the work of photographer Jan Groover. This started a few months ago when the artist and critic David Ambrose mentioned her, and I learned she had been a long-term faculty member at SUNY Purchase and teacher of the wildly […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Richard Tuttle, who has lived in New Mexico since the late 1980s, recently got an expansive new studio on Mount Desert Island in Maine. Exchanging mesa views for a perch on the ocean, at the very edge of a country on the verge of a […]
Contributed by Adam Simon / The space between 0 and 1 is infinite. I thought of this in relation to David Diao�s exhibition, “Studios and Sales,” currently at Postmasters. The show is an inspired pairing of two works, Studios, Updated and Sales. Sales is an arrangement of twenty-five smallish paintings from 1992 that documents […]
Contributed by Tom McGlynn / Carolanna Parlato, to my mind, has been building up to her most recent show of paintings for about 25 years, since I first became aware of her work. The single-mindedness with which she has maintained her focus on combining gestural pouring and what might be […]
Contributed by Liz Ainslie / Each of JJ Manford�s vividly realized paintings in the Project Room at Derek Eller draws us into a tightly confined interior space � notionally, an apartment � in which a kinetic, centrally-placed meta-image vibrates. The paintings serve as containers for fantastical projections of the mind, […]
Contributed by Curtis Mitchell / The moment of entering a gallery opening � bright lights, convivial conversation, and walls and floor partially seen through conjoined bodies � is not conducive to thoughtful viewing. N. Dash�s paintings recently on display at Casey Kaplan, with their radically blown-up images of nubs of […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Elizabeth Hazan�s earlier paintings were highly resolved meditations on Google map imagery and aerial landscape views of Long Island�s east end. The terrific new work, recently on display at Johnannes Vogt in a solo show called �Heat Wave,” is moving into a less certain, but, […]
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