Contributed by Loren Britton / On the occasion of �A Strong Desire,� a sprawling summer group at PS120 in Berlin that explores sexual identity, the body, and […]
Interviews
An artist�s story: Patrick Brennan
Contributed by Rob Kaiser-Schatzlein / Earlier this year, painter Patrick Brennan had a show at the artist-run gallery Essex Flowers. The title, �Drifter,” referred to […]
Karin Campbell�s grins and grimaces
Karin Campbell�s glistening paintings of disjointed mouths, eyes, and teeth hide in plain site. Both densely layered and sparse, her recent abstract canvases are cartoonish takes on […]
Laura Blacklow on painterly photo processes
Contributed by Sharon Butler / On the occasion of the Association of International Photography Dealers (AIPAD) sponsored Photography Show that is taking place on Pier 94 in NYC this […]
Suzanne Joelson: How things change
In Suzanne Joelson‘s confrontational new paintings the conflicting forces of order and disruption animate a lively hash of vinyl photographic banners, paint, patterning, hollow-core wood […]
Nicole Wittenberg’s big yellow painting
Contributed by Kate Liebman / Nicole Wittenberg’s second solo show, “The Yellow Kiss,” is on view at the new LES gallery yours mine & ours […]
Sharon Louden: Consultants, careers, and community
I frequently get pitches via email from art consultants who offer to help me (and I imagine many other artists) get exhibitions, grants, publicity, and […]
Conversation: Jennifer Coates and EJ Hauser at PAFA
Contributed by EJ Hauser / Jennifer Coates paints food–fast food, junk food–anything easy to make and portable. On the occasion of “Carb Load,” her compelling […]
Interview: Crystal “Kitty” Shimski with Dennis Kardon
Guest contributor Crystal “Kitty” Shimski, widely admired in the art community as a freelance Intuitive Technique Specialist and part-time Trance Inducer. Kitty usually contributes our […]
Cecily Brown on motherhood: “You’re forced to be more conventional”
Cecily Brown, a painter who recently left the Gagosian stable and has a show at Maccarone this month, parents a six-year-old daughter with architecture critic […]
Diana Copperwhite: I think about what the paintings can’t do and then I try to do it
On the occasion of her solo show at Kevin Kavanagh in Dublin, Diana Copperwhite, born in Dublin in 1969, had the following conversation with Irish artist Helen O’Leary. They discuss Ireland’s literary and visual traditions, the importance of scale, optics, and how technology has taken hold in Copperwhite’s work. “Painting is so physical but has the potential to do something very different to other media,” she tells O’Leary. “Aspects of technology are almost hypnotic and trance-like and this creates a space in my paintings that gives rise to what you might consider the psychedelic.”
Indian studies: Kathryn Myers
Since taking a 1999 sabbatic leave in India, Kathryn Myers‘s small-scale observational paintings have been richly informed by Indian life and culture. At Bose Archives […]
Adam Tamsky’s American art
Contributed by Sharon Butler / One of my favorite galleries in New England has always been Adam Tamsky Fine Art, which specializes in paintings primarily […]
“I�m not an original thinker, but I think I�m an original painter.”
Sylvia Plimack Mangold, “Summer Maple,” 2008, drypoint and aquatint on paper, 16 3/4 x 21 in Sylvia Plimack Mangold, “Maple Tree Detail 2008,” 2008, oil […]
April Gornik: Painting has an “undeniable gravitas”
In qi peng‘s Salt Lake City Fine Arts Examiner interview with April Gornik, qi asks Gornik, who had a solo show at Danese in November […]
