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 […]
Solo Shows
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 […]
Tom Burckhardt ransacks his influences
Through October 16 Tibor de Nagy is showing paintings by Tom Burckhardt. The exhibition comprises two bodies of related work, 157 oils […]
Jim Herbert: Where the narrow utility of porn’s attraction gives way to the whirling dervish of making
Contributed by Sharon Butler / English Kills’s new exhibition features fourteen dazzling, floor-to-ceiling paintings based on images of porn that artist Jim Herbert culled from […]
NY Times Art in Review: Kelli Williams
Kelli Williams, “Wet Bar,” 2007, oil on panel, 12 x 16″ Kelli Williams, “Oviparous,” 2009, oil on panel, 16 x 20″ According to Ken Johnson […]
Martin Bromirski’s universe
Check out Martin Bromirski’s scrappy, small-scale abstractions at John Davis through Saturday. Besides working in his studio, Bromirski blogs at anaba. The charm […]
