Contributed by Sangram Majumdar / Recently, I have been admiring the images of Meghan Brady’s large-scale works on paper that she�s been posting on Instagram. The images prompted me to revisit the narrative I had arrived at about her work, and to investigate further. So, on the occasion of her […]
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Kristen Mills: Plausible hope
Contributed by Zach Seeger / Kristen Mills�s �Believability� is a richly constructed, well-meaning, humorous-but-not installation of videos, sculpted environments, and cacophonous formal musings on the difficulty of personal and professional perseverance in an uncertain time. Just prior to our current collective crises came a burgeoning Chicago Imagist-inspired painting moment, formal […]
Memory: Mystery Car Rides
Contributed by Benito Esquenazi / In the twenty years that I was not painting I maintained a connection to my creative process by drawing and seeing art. One does not choose to be an artist. One is. I paused my painting practice in 1995. By then I had three kids. […]
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide: September 2020
The galleries are reopening and polite viewers, social-distanced and masked, are emerging, eager to run into one another and talk about what we’ve all just been through…and have yet to endure. Do stay safe out there. Brooklyn Kentler International Drawing Space / 100 Works on Paper Benefit Exhibition / 353 […]
Interview: Brandi Twilley and life in the studio
Contributed by Caroline Wells Chandler/ I met Brandi Twilley back in 2008 when we started graduate school together at Yale. Both Southerners and eager for a change of scenery, we became fast friends. For over a decade we have talked extensively about art and creating a sustainable life around making […]
Art and Film: DIY festival for readers who miss NYC
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Even deprived of movie houses, cinephiles abhor a vacuum. Criterion may be their readiest source for a themed set of noteworthy films or the center-cut of an auteur�s oeuvre. Another option is to pan the metaphorical stream of mostly indifferent content for nuggets of gold. […]
Projects: Red Shoes in East Hampton
Contributed by Abby Lloyd and Hadley Vogel / The progenitor of the East Hampton Tow wasn’t on wheels. It was a shed in the backyard of Hadley�s childhood home. She founded East Hampton Shed in 2012 with Nate Hitchcock, and for eight years, mostly during the summer, the shed functioned […]
Radical reorientation: Rural life, politics, and a pandemic in Joshua Tree
Contributed by Mary Addison Hackett / �How�s everyone doing?� is the occasional check-in I see posted among artist friends who haven�t completely jumped the Facebook ship. In a group devoted to issues relevant to online and F2F teaching during the pandemic, the check-ins are more dire. Artists are on edge, […]
The objectness of Rachael Gorchov
Contributed by Jason Andrew / There is a long history of artists expanding the objectness � that is, the sculptural dimension � of painting. Picasso and Braque introduced this concept in their assemblage works; Vladimir Tatlin broadened it in his �counter-reliefs� alongside Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoventhe, the �Dada Baroness�. For the […]
Sobriety, resilience, and hope at Massey Klein Gallery
Contributed by Riad Miah / Emerging from lockdown, Massey Klein Gallery on the Lower East Side has reopened its doors, if only by appointment, with two new exhibitions featuring three artists. Claire Lieberman and Louis Reith�s works are shown together in �Elemental� while Bethany Czarnecki has a separate exhibition of […]