Stills from Lamson’s performance video of “Play/Pause.” This week in the New Haven Advocate, I review Brooklyn-based artist William Lamson’s Artspace exhibition Time Is […]
Solo Shows
Elizabeth Gourlay’s simple means
Elizabeth Gourlay, “Portolano 2.” Images from a studio visit with Elizabeth Gourlay in August, 2009. My quiet Connecticut neighbor, Elizabeth Gourlay, paints allegories. […]
Burchfield in Buffalo and LA
In the LA Times, Christopher Knight calls the Hammer Museum’s Charles Burchfield show, organized by artist Robert Gober, breathtaking. In ArtNews, Hilarie M. Sheets reports […]
Tworkov’s first comprehensive NYC survey opens this week
Jack Tworkov in his Provincetown studio. Photo by � Arnold Newman, for an article written by Robert Hatch, “At The Tip Of Cape Cod,” July […]
NY Times Art in Review: Powhida, Katz, Minter
“WILLIAM POWHIDA: The Writing Is on the Wall,” Schroeder-Romero, New York, NY. Through May 16 Holland Cotter: William Powhida, art world vigilante, virtuoso draftsman, compulsive […]
Louise Fishman: Ignoring aesthetic wanderlust
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In the May issue of The Brooklyn Rail I take a look at Louise Fishman’s recent show at Cheim & Read. When I saw the show, I had the same feeling I had at Susan Rothenberg’s recent show and had to write about it. Here’s an excerpt from the review.
Peter Saul: “Monument to garish, adolescent overkill”
In the NY Observer, Mario Naves reports that Peter Saul’s paintings at David Nolan aren’t as funny or caustic as they should be. “Bernie Madoff […]
Lois Dodd: Like a house on fire
Alexandre Gallery presents six recent large-scale paintings that octogenarian Lois Dodd painted during the final years of the Bush Presidency. Each depicts the image of […]
NY Times Art in Review: Richard Tuttle, Richard Phillips
“Richard Tuttle: Walking on Air,” PaceWildenstein, New York, NY. Through April 25. Ken Johnson reports: Richard Tuttle’s new fusions of painting and sculpture are a […]
Picassify it
In the NY Times Carol Vogel wonders what Picasso was thinking during the final years of his life, when he was living in Notre-Dame-de-Vie on […]
R.C. Baker’s fictive, painterly narratives at Zone
In April, Village Voice art critic R.C. Baker has a show at Zone:Contemporary Art (formerly Zone: Chelsea Center for the Arts) that combines art, fiction, […]
NY Times Art in Review: Leon Kossoff and Xylor Jane
“Leon Kossoff: From the Early Years, 1957-1967, “Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY. Through March 28. Roberta Smith reports: This show is an informative treat. […]
Joan Snyder: Fleshy physicality and broken-bones impact
In the LA Times art blog David Pagel reports that the six paintings and four prints in Snyder�s L.A. solo debut at SolwayJones Gallery are […]
Serban Savu: Ruins of a recent future
David Nolan features work by Serban Savu this month. Savu, part of a group of artists from Cluj, schooled in the tradition of Social Realism, […]
Charlie Finch on Kathleen Gilje’s 96 breasts
“I stopped by Francis Naumann’s 57th Street gallery last week to watch Kathleen Gilje install her altered series of 48 female portraits by John Singer […]
Shelly Adler’s romantic loneliness in Toronto
After spending the afternoon hosting a birthday party for a ten-year-old in a freezing ice rink, Canadian art seems appropriate, so here’s a piece about […]
NY Times Art in Review: Robert Mangold
“Robert Mangold: Drawings and Works on Paper 1965-2008,” Pace, Wildenstein, New York, NY. Through April 4. Holland Cotter reports: “Taken in isolation, none of these […]
Last chance: Greg Lindquist on Peter Doig
In The Brooklyn Rail, Greg Lindquist looks at Peter Doig’s new large-scale paintings, which are up until tomorrow at Gavin Brown and Michael Werner. “While […]
Calling all Robert Mangold fans
Today the Times has a feature called “Modern Art Explained” in which they ask people to send an email note responding to an image of […]
Tomory Dodge turns viscous brushwork into levitating clutter
Christopher Miles reports in the LA Weekly (didn’t we all have enough of New York last week?) that Tomory Dodge paints with a kind of […]
