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 […]
Solo Shows
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 […]
EJ Hauser: Innocence and wonder
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, […]
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 […]
