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Gallery shows
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Powhida on Biden: A man for this season
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The art that accompanies magazine articles usually seems decorative and functional, there merely to cheer up black-and-white text and interrupt […]
Tula x Yuko Nishikawa: Designing life within a shell
Contributed by Emma Stolarski / Plant life is one of natures masterpieces. Botanical beauty, medicine, and ecological systems are integrated in every part of our […]
Medrie MacPhee, David Humphrey, and the power of recognition
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / In the 1940s, Philip Guston noted that the problem with figurative art was that it vanishes into recognition. By 1960, […]
The “whorish porous” in the work of Angela Dufresne
Contributed by Andrew Woolbright / Angela Dufresnes dual shows at Yossi Milo Gallery and M+B Los Angeles provide an opportunity to assess the full breadth […]
The political imperative: Gatson, Humphrey, Williams, Worth in Chelsea
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The clash between Donald Trump�s nascent fascism and America�s liberal traditions, brought to a head by the murder of George […]
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide: Mid-fall 2020
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 […]
Between object and metaphor: Berger, Lledos, and Uchiyama
Contributed by Karen Schifano / Reacting to the overtly emotional critical response to Abstract Expressionism, Frank Stella sought to refine Greenbergian formalism by reducing painting […]
Michelle Vaughan presents forty conservative women
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 […]
The painterly photographs of Jan Groover
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 […]
Facts on the ground: Katy Crowe and Coleen Sterritt
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In the exhibition statement for “Evenso: The Common and Curious,” a two-person exhibition at the Los Angeles Harbor College Fine […]
White, Woll, and the artist’s sense of control
Contributed by Riad Miah / Taylor Anton White and Andy Woll’s solo exhibitions opened at two galleries next door to each other in Tribeca, White’s […]
Painting and the anti-Oedipal insurgency
Contributed by Andrew Woolbright / In 1972, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari — a French philosopher and a French psychoanalyst, respectively — published Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism […]
Richard Tuttle sees the light
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Richard Tuttle, who has lived in New Mexico since the late 1980s, recently got an expansive new studio on Mount […]
David Diao�s challenge to formalism
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,” […]
Carolanna Parlato�s sporting informe
Contributed by Tom McGlynn / Carolanna Parlato, to my mind, has been building up to her most recent show of paintings for about 25 years, […]
ICYMI: Elizabeth Hazan
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 […]
