Contributed by Patrick Neal / In earlier paintings, artist Rob Ventura explored the anatomical and cellular characteristics of toxic flowers � a menacing subject that […]
Solo Shows
Kristen Mills: Plausible hope
Contributed by Zach Seeger / Kristen Mills‘s Believability is a richly constructed, well-meaning, humorous-but-not installation of videos, sculpted environments, and cacophonous formal musings on the […]
Joan Snyder: Painting from the inside out
Contributed by Jason Andrew / In a 1976 Cincinnati Enquirer review of Joan Snyder�s paintings, the reviewer, Owen Findsen, surmised that she had �picked up […]
The objectness of Rachael Gorchov
Contributed by Jason Andrew / There is a long history of artists expanding the objectness — that is, the sculptural dimension — of painting. Picasso […]
Paul Erschen: Half remembered
Contributed by Cody Tumblin / Before I start talking about Paul Erschen‘s work, I’d like to talk about mud. Imagine a muggy summer afternoon near […]
Richard Rezac’s grand domesticity
Contributed by Rachel Youens / Richard Rezac, a Chicago-based sculptor, is having his first solo show at Luhring Augustine Chelsea. Rezac’s abstract sculptures are supra-sensual […]
Chris Domenick’s deceptively flat world
Contributed by Tony Bluestone / “Flat Moon,” Chris Domenick’s show of large framed works at Kate Werble Gallery, was the last exhibition I was able […]
Carolyn Case: Build battle sink
To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild Flower — William Blake Contributed by Andrew Woolbright / Carolyn Case has […]
Jude Tallichet’s sense of the ineffable
Contributed by Adam Simon / Jude Tallichet‘s Fire Escape, one of several sculptures in her exhibition “Heat Map” at Smack Mellon in Dumbo, doesn’t look […]
Robin Hill’s acts of unnaming
Contributed by Elizabeth Whalley / In a genre-defying practice, Robin Hill queries the nature of her sensory entanglements with the everyday world. Embracing a vast […]
Moira Dryer: Satisfyingly complete
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Moira Dryer (b. 1957; d. 1992) was among the first painters in the 1980s and �90s to reject minimalism and […]
Paige Beeber: Transient future
Paige Beeber at Arts + Leisure, installation view Contributed by Zach Seeger / The novel coronavirus has prompted a slowdown in global commerce. While temporary, […]
Susan Rothenberg: Hope and discontent
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Susan Rothenberg’s invariably forceful and confident paintings have a beguiling twitchiness, created out of layers of agitated brushwork from a restless hand. In her latest solo at Sperone Westwater, she continues to embrace a non-serial approach, presenting paintings and drawings of various objects and animals she encounters in everyday life. Two of the paintings, Stone Angel and Buddha Monk, appear to be images of inanimate objects, although painted quite differently from each other.
Steve Hicks: Sparring shape and line
Contributed by Carol Diamond / Steve Hicks‘s oil and acrylic canvases exude confidence and exuberance, like a teenager sporting a new outfit and venturing out […]
Alun Williams: Lest we forget
Contributed by David Humphrey / What is it to have a life? It�s overwhelming to imagine the pile-up of lives that have preceded ours, some […]
JJ Manford’s domestic stages for acid daydreams
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 […]
Yulia Iosilzon: Trapped in paradise
Contributed by Catherine Haggarty / “Yulia Iosilzon: Paradeisos” — the first solo exhibition of the London-based artist, smartly curated by Kate Mothes — is currently […]
N. Dash: More enervating than edgy
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 fabric and other household remnants, provide immediate visual motivation to leap the obstacles.
Hermine Ford’s exquisite poise
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Any painter is eclectic to a greater or lesser degree, drawing inspiration from other painters, but it’s a rarer one […]
Pat Passlof: At the apex of a leap
Contributed by Jason Andrew / Before the painter Pat Passlof, who died in 2011, would allow me to visit her in her Forsyth Street studio, […]
