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 […]
Solo Shows
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, […]
Gary Petersen: The span of attention
Contributed by Riad Miah / “Just Hold On,” the title of Gary Petersen’s second show at McKenzie Fine Arts on the Lower East Side, fits […]
Elisa Lendvay: Waltz of charms
Contributed by Liz Ainslie / For several years I have watched Elisa Lendvay’s sculptures emerge with a winning combination of grace and wonkiness from the cement […]
Erin Lawlor: Like blood flowing to and from the heart
Contributed by Jennifer Rose Bonilla-Edgington / Erin Lawlor’s paintings, on view at Miles McEnery Gallery through August 16, have a sense of the familiar. Wide […]
Peter Krashes: Summer in the city
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Spending summer in the city means that each weekend, in neighborhoods far and near, street traffic is rerouted to make way for lively […]
Nancy Graves: Sorting the cosmic haze
Contributed by Jason Andrew / In 1959, British scientist and novelist C.P. Snow, struck by the inability of intellectuals and scientists to communicate and thereby […]
Rebekah Callaghan: Meditations on light and time
Contributed by Bea Huff Hunter / �I think I�ve been making the same painting for a long time and it just keeps ending in a […]
Gestures of grace: Carol Saft at Lesley Heller
Contributed by Julia Couzens / Carol Saft�s plainspoken exhibition, “Fallen Men,“ in the project space at Lesley Heller, is a suite of small-scaled, wall-based bronze figures engaged […]
David Humphrey: Facile like a fox
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / It might be tempting to conclude that David Humphrey is too facile a painter for his own damn good — that his […]
Sangram Majumdar�s super power
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Many of Sangram Majumdar�s new paintings made of echoing lines, exposed charcoal under-drawings, and pale, often flat, unmodulated, color seem […]
