Ninety-seven-year-old Oshino Okuda (pictured above) regularly attends painting classes at the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific. Although her late husband was an artist, she was […]
Group Shows
New flatfile project grows in Brooklyn
Kris Graves Projects and Pocket Utopia are teaming up to create new a works-on-paper flatfile project in Brooklyn. The flatfile, which will be on view […]
My new neighbor: Sol Lewitt’s “Wall Drawing 978”
Four students from Eastern Connecticut State University, where I’ve been a faculty member since 2000, are in the process of creating a Sol LeWitt mural, […]
Upcoming shows: Inside and out
“HOME,” Westport Arts Center Main Gallery April 3 � June 1, 2009Westport Arts Center�s exhibition HOME, curated by Eric Aho, features paintings and drawings that […]
Superabundant: Pattern power in UK
This is the final week for “Superabundant,” an exhibition at Turner Contemporary Project Space that declares itself a celebration of pattern power. Artists Jacob Dahlgren, […]
Real life at Capricious Space
Beginning this past weekend a leading group of art bloggers, internet artists, online curators and critics began taking up residence at Capricious Space in Williamsburg […]
Artwork delivery: Platform Project Space, NYC
Update (March 9): For snaps of the installation, check out Joanne Mattera Art Blog here. Watch VernissageTV’s video of the blogpix opening. Today (March 3) […]
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 […]
Closing reception this week: Lost & Found
If you�re in the Hartford area, swing by the artists� (closing) reception on Thursday, February 5, 4:30-6:30 for “Lost & Found � Fragments Assembling Realities,” […]
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,” […]
Monya Rowe: Doubtfully optimistic? Optimistically doubtful?
Monya Rowe is presenting a group show, Perception as Object, which originally stemmed from the anticipation surrounding the recent presidential election and the current post-election […]
Second thoughts: Archeology of Wonder at Real Art Ways in Hartford
RAW’s Director of Visual Arts, Kristina Newman-Scott’s first curatorial effort, “Archeology of Wonder,” aims to examine the way we use artifacts and art to approach […]
Poured, pulled, rolled, slumped, sliced, dripped, swiped, squirted, pieced, and scraped paint in New Jersey
In the Newark Star Ledger Dan Bischoff reports that “Material Color” at the Hunterdon Art Museum brings together abstract art made out of color […]
Everybody hearts painting, 4eva
“Painting: Now and Forever, Part II,” billed as “a highly subjective, celebratory survey of contemporary painting,” is a wonderfully seductive, understated show, at least the […]
Where the paintings are
“If you emerged from the Whitney Biennial wondering where all the painting went, don’t despair,” Karen Rosenberg informs us in the NY Times this morning. […]
Gouache-apolooza in Chelsea
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Gouache, an expensive opaque watercolor-like paint, has been around for millennia. It dries fast, yields a sublime matte finish, and […]
More Pattern & Decoration in Hartford
�Post Dec: Beyond Pattern and Decoration,� Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT. Through Dec. 23.Joseloff Gallery presents work of the original P&Ders from […]
Hickey does Vegas
“Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art From the Neon Homeland,” curated by Dave Hickey. Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV. Through Dec. […]
Postwar occupation: American painters in Paris
“Americans in Paris: Abstract Painting in the Fifties,” Tibor de Nagy, New York, NY. Through September 29. Note: Gallery closed August 18 to September 3. […]
Abstract painting in NYC: two group shows open tonight
“Late Liberties,” John Connelly Presents625 West 27th Street, 212-337-9563; July 12 – August 24, 2007Late Liberties is organized by artist and curator Augusto Arbizo in […]
