Contributed by Carol Diamond / In very good art, stark opposites like life and death, night and day, and pain and joy co-exist in harmonious […]
Solo Shows
Ilana Savdie: Carnival abstraction
Contributed by Paul Laster / Blurring the boundary between abstraction and figuration, Ilana Savdie makes colorful canvases that take the eye on a rollercoaster ride […]
Kathryn Lynch: Allusive places
Contributed by Patrick Neal / Sometimes we see something better when we dont look directly at it. This thought permeated my viewing of Kathryn Lynchs […]
Lauren Luloff: Absorbed into color
Contributed by Erin Yerby / Lauren Luloffs semi-transparent panels of silk, in their very stillness, betray a slight flutter of movement like a winged creature […]
Adam Henry: Full spectrum
Contributed by Adam Simon / It has been argued that there is no such thing as an abstract painting anymore, only pictures of abstract paintings. […]
Jack Tworkov: Laying down line
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In the 1960s, Jack Tworkov began to feel as if he had taken Ab-Ex gestural abstraction as far as it […]
David Byrd’s palpable tenderness
Contributed by Craig Taylor / The late David Byrds affecting show, on view at Anton Kern Gallery, revolves around what he called his magnum opus: […]
Andrew Zarou’s particular beat
Contributed by Ben Pritchard / Andrew Zarous compelling exhibition at The Painting Center is resonant of the comprehensive order that one might covet in a […]
Stanley Rosen: Slabs and coils, scallops and disks
Contributed by Rachel Youens / Stanley Rosen came of age as a sculptor during the 1960s and 1970s, when ceramicists and sculptors were challenging the […]
Spencer Lewis�s mesmerizing formlessness
Contributed by Patrick Neal / Spencer Lewis�s large, colorful, gestural abstractions, on view at Harper�s Chelsea, are deliciously physical and boldly display the process of […]
Mira Schor: Insistently personal
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Mira Schors galvanizingly insistent new paintings continue her exploration of self and the disembodied mind. Many painters traffic in purposeful […]
Jill Nathanson: Remarkable synesthesia
Contributed by Kim Uchiyama / Intriguingly titled Light Phrase, Jill Nathansons current exhibition at Berry Campbell Gallery features luminous planes of crystalline color meeting and […]
Invitation: Sharon Butler and “Morning in America”
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Please join me for “Morning in America,” an exhibition of new paintings at Theodore:Art that opens on January 15, 2021. […]
Contributed by Paul Laster / Creating playful paintings with psychological twists, Clayton Schiff makes his 56 Henry exhibition debut with the solo show Small World, […]
Catherine Haggarty’s call to memory
Contributed by Zach Seeger / Catherine Haggarty belongs to a group of New York painters who blossomed between financial crisis of 2008 and the election […]
