Contributed by Sharon Butler / In her new painting exhibition �Barn Spirits� at Derek Eller, Brooklyn-based artist EJ Hauser features ungainly, diagram-like landscapes with flat, […]
Solo Shows
Melissa Meyer: Close attention to familiar surroundings
Contributed by Sharon Butler / A Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts colleague once told me that taking a new route each day was the most […]
Stephen Maine and the ice trade
Contributed by Sharon Butler / KK Kozik�s novel ICEHOUSE Project Space, located on the quaint town green in Sharon, Connecticut, is an old 10 x […]
Vija Celmins: To fix the image in memory
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Anyone walking out of the Vija Celmins retrospective that opened last week at SFMoMA thinking how good she is at […]
Interview with Jane Swavely: Toxic glow
Contributed by Sharon Butler / When Jane Swavely isn’t working in the old-school LES loft where she raised two sons, she is at a cabin […]
Jenny Snider: Mutiny, rebellion, the experience of life
Contributed by Jason Andrew / Jenny Snider is a storyteller. The content and form of her art come from a variety of sources: history, popular culture, […]
Nora Griffin hot take
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In Nora Griffin’s lively new paintings at Fierman, aesthetic tropes from eighties graphics – the stepped rule, the squiggle, artful […]
Brian Dupont and Rachael Nevins: Suffering for something beautiful
Contributed by Sharon Butler /�Brian Dupont’s�paintings, on view at Adah Rose Gallery in Bethesda, Maryland, through December 31, are uniquely transfixing for several reasons. One […]
Elena Sisto: A new kind of freedom
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Elena Sisto�s new paintings, on view at Bookstein Projects through October 27, focus smartly on hair. Lively thick brushstrokes snake […]
Lindsay Walt: Infinite space, logical form, and inner contemplation
Contributed by Lilly Hern-Fondation / In her new paintings and works on paper, Lindsay Walt works with geometric structures that appear as though they have materialized out […]
Exhibition essay: Sarah Sentilles on Nancy Bowen at Kentler International Drawing Space
Contributed by Sarah Sentilles / Nancy Bowen calls herself an “artistic archaeologist,” and in her exhibition “For Each Ecstatic Instant,” you can see the fragments […]
Katherine Bradford: Deep image painting
Contributed by Jason Andrew / The art of Katherine Bradford, on view at Canada through October 21, is deep image painting. Her often heroic imagery and surrealist […]
Artist Statement of the Day: Jock Ireland
“I don’t like writing artist’s statements. I really don’t know what to say. I’m not even sure at this point what I’ll be showing. Some […]
Studio visit with Barbara Takenaga
Contributed by Leslie Wayne / Barbara Takenaga has been pitting her skill at painting pattern against the physical constraints of materials for years, and her skill […]
Invitation: “Sharon Butler New Paintings” at TheodoreArt
From the press release: Sharon Butler just spent a month at Yaddo, and used the time to, among other things, ruminate and transform ideas developed […]
Dona Nelson: Exuberant overworking as a strategy
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Dona Nelson says she�s lazy because sometimes she would rather read a book than work in the studio. But �Stand Alone […]
Jason Stopa: Inside and out
Contributed by Riad Miah / In “The Gate,” Jason Stopa’s fourth New York solo and his first one-person show at Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects, […]
TEXTING: Julia Schwartz at LA Visitor Welcome Center
Mary Addison Hackett recently caught up with Julia Schwartz on the occasion of Schwartz’s show, “tenderly cradled and lavishly flung” at Los Angeles Visitor Welcome […]
Alex Kwartler: Tenuous survivalism
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In “Snowflake,” Alex Kwartler’s recent show at Magenta Plains, small-scale paintings captured the desultory emotional tenor of 2017. Compared with his earlier exhibitions, which featured a lively, large-scale abstractions alongside smaller black pictograph-like images and explored notions about surface and spontaneity, the work on view this year appears slow, dark, and extremely deliberate.
New favorite: Marina Rheingantz
Selected by Sharon Butler / From the press release for her recent solo at Bortolami: Marina Rheingantz is an artist who picks apart and unravels […]
