A while back I mentioned that John Yau, poet, former arts editor at The Brooklyn Rail, and one of the masterminds of Hyperallergic Weekend, was […]
Solo Shows
Ralph Fasanella: Defending the 99%
In his review of Jubilation/Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined, the new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum, Ken Johnson neglected to mention that there […]
Green light: Peter Halley in Portland
On Sunday, “Prison,” Peter Halley’s first exhibition in the Northwest, opens at Disjecta, a non-profit space in Portland. The site-specific installation is a digitally generated […]
Sunday Matinee: Gary Stephan
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Gary Stephan (American, b. 1942), a painter who used to show at big galleries like Mary Boone Gallery, Hirschl and […]
Sadcore: Robert Yoder at Frosch & Portmann
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Robert Yoder’s new collages and paintings combined with found papers have a downbeat quality inspired by the sadcore music he’s […]
Susan Rothenberg’s disparate images
Susan Rothenberg, “Raven,” 2010, oil on canvas, 87 1/2 x 75 1/8.” Contributed by Sharon Butler / Susan Rothenberg’s show at Sperone Westwater features […]
Merlin James: Secret world
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In his current show at Sikkema Jenkins, Merlin James presents handcrafted relief-like objects that look like the backs of […]
Mythological creature: Susan Bee
This week, after a trip to the Venice Biennale, Jerry Saltz worries about the state of the art world and suggests that younger artists have […]
Erik Saxon’s rigor and play
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Matthew Deleget from Minus Space just sent a note that included these installation shots of Erik Saxon’s exhibition, which is up through June 11. Originally from San Francisco but based in NYC since 1968, Saxon was a core member of the Radical Painting Group active in NYC during the 1970s and 1980s. The RPG stressed a return to the core concerns of painting, focusing primarily on the monochrome.
Elisabeth Condon: Walking in her own landscape
Elisabeth Condon’s exhibition at Lesley Heller reveals a painter in the prime of her painting life. Condon’s colorful, trippy paintings exude the confidence and energy […]
Rochelle Feinstein: “Painting isn�t enough for me, it really isn�t.”
Last week I stopped by On Stellar Rays to check out the excellent Rochelle Feinstein (not to be confused with Rachel Feinstein) show, comprised of […]
Isn’t it ironic?
Los Angeles-based artist Rebecca Morris’s exhibition of rough abstraction that she calls “perverse formalism” is up at Harris Lieberman Gallery through Saturday. In Time […]
Blast Radius
The other day I stopped by Winkleman Gallery to see Joy Garnett’s new paintings, and then hurried up to the Cort Theater where I had […]
In favor of improvisation: Angelina Gualdoni at Asya Geisberg
Angelina Gualdoni, “Untitled (Dusty Dusky),” 2010, acrylic and oil on canvas, 47 x 52″ Angelina Gualdoni, “Untitled (Black Swirl), 2010, oil and acrylic on canvas, […]
Cordy Ryman’s itchy tactility and openendedness
Cordy Ryman, “Dudley!” 2010, acrylic & enamel on wood, 19 x 17 x 1 inches Cordy Ryman, “Waiting for Christopher,” 2010, acrylic & enamel on […]
