Contributed by Sharon Butler / In Paris last week I stopped by Galerie Templon near the Centre Pompidou to see Francesco Clemente’s charming new paintings. […]
Solo Shows
Godward and upward at SLAG
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Ben Godward is at home with bright colors and exotic shapes. The New York sculptor has for some time been […]
Marjorie Welish: Procedural difference, conceptual consequence
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Followers of post-election news coverage, despairing over rampant voter suppression, are bereft over the Electoral College electors’ unwillingness to cast their […]
Jacob Kassay: Familiarity superseding reflection?
Contributed by Sharon Butler/ In “H-L,” Jacob Kassay’s second�solo show at 303 Gallery, the artist has left behind�the silver-covered canvases for which he is best […]
Agnes Martin: A resolutely solitary endeavor
Running late, I arrived at the press preview for the Agnes Martin retrospective long after all of the other critics and journalists had left. My […]
Marjorie Welish on Leslie Roberts at Minus Space
Contributed by Marjorie Welish / American artists may over-esteem the vernacular as the only true democratic mode. But occasionally a vernacular mythopoesis really inspires a good body […]
Joan Semmel: A woman’s body
Donald Trump has made women’s bodies a central campaign issue during the 2016 presidential election. In a speech in New Hampshire today, Michelle Obama responded […]
Allison Schulnik’s frenzied equestrian feminisms
Contributed by Torey Akers / Allison Schulnik�s current solo show at ZieherSmith, “Hoof II,” posits personal mythology as a material condition for world-building. Each heavily […]
Yoshiaki Mochizuki’s shifting light
Contributed by Will Fenstermaker / When the light shifts, Yoshiaki Mochizukis paintings come alive. Surfaces that seem like dull mirrors shift into prismatic events as […]
Last chance: Joanne Greenbaum’s glorious starts and fits
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The sheer ebullience and playfulness of Joanne Greenbaum’s big untitled abstract paintings, on display only through July 1 at Rachel […]
David Reed: A painter’s life
At Peter Blum, the looping brushstrokes and open surfaces of David Reed�s remarkably spare site-specific installation are anything but casual. Entering the gallery, the viewer […]
Jane Swavely: Admiration for the jungle
Contributed by Mira Dayal / There is a sense of unease in the series of paintings that comprise of “Espial,” Jane Swavely’s latest show at A.I.R. Gallery. I enter the space — not of the gallery, but of the painting itself. Hovering just inches above the ground, the edges of the canvas become the frame of a doorway, beyond which thick brush conceals a dark forest. But the tall grass of Werner’s Painting (2015) is not entirely still; as Werner Herzog himself says of the jungle, in Burden of Dreams (1982), “There is no harmony in the universe. We have to get acquainted to this idea that there is no real harmony, as we have conceived it. But when I say this, I say this all full of admiration for the jungle.”
Amy Lincoln: Twilight zone
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Luminous, though an overused adjective in art writing, is an apt one for Amy Lincoln�s edgy new paintings, mainly of […]
Robert Yoder: How stories became paintings
Notwithstanding his striking show “JAME6,” currently at Frosch & Portmann, Robert Yoder told me he had been angry and depressed last year and that painting […]
Newness: Melissa Meyer at Lennon, Weinberg
When artists experiment with a new medium or process, audaciously moving from one that they�ve fully mastered to less familiar territory, new ideas often […]
Paul D�Agostino�s pictorial discursiveness
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Given the demonstrated capability, energy, and ambition of Bushwick artist, gallerist, and all-purpose cultural maven Paul D�Agostino, that he would […]
Fred Valentine’s grunge sensibility
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Fred Valentine made his wryly haunting charcoal chiaroscuro drawings of real people — some sweet and tender others damaged and […]
Starry night: Katherine Bradford at Canada
According to her son Arthur’s poignant post on Facebook, Katherine Bradford moved to New York in the 1980s with two small children in tow. For […]
Invitation: “Sharon Butler: New Paintings” opens Friday, January 8, at Theodore:Art
UPDATE: The show has been extended through February 21, 2016. Images of the paintings on view are available here. Big thanks to all the critics […]
Press release of the day: Giorgio Griffa at Casey Kaplan
In January Casey Kaplan is presenting work from the 1970s by painter Giorgio Griffa (b. Turin, 1936), an Italian painter known for his rigorous approach […]
