Who doesn’t love photographs of work-in-progress at artists’ studios? In his insightful and clever second solo show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, David Gilbert […]
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By any other name: Casualism at DODGE
Guest contributor: Jonathan Stevenson / Casualism � the explicit basis for Garis & Hahn�s group show �Dying on Stage� this past summer � is merely […]
Painting Toward Happiness: Episode 1: The Landscape
Snarky Jayson Musson, aka Hennessy Youngman from the hilarious Art Thoughtz series, channels Bob Ross in the first installment of his new series “Painting Toward […]
Keeting and Grill: Timeless energy
Each month Giampietro Gallery pairs painters for concurrent solo shows, and through October 5 Zachary Keeting and Clare Grill have work on display. Grill, whose […]
Remarks to young artists at UConn’s 2013 Art & Art History Convocation
For their 2013 Convocation, the UConn Department of Art and Art History invited New Zealand multimedia artist Shigeyuki Kihara and me to make presentations about emerging […]
Allison Miller’s dirty paintings and clumsy relationships
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Allison Miller’s paintings strike me as calculatedly–therefore artfully–imbecilic. In her second solo show at Susan Inglett, the Los Angeles artist […]
Quick Study: Chelsea snaps, reading links
As I traipse around the galleries, catch up on the backlog in my InBox, and read the other bloggers via my new Feedly RSS reader […]
Artists’ Residencies: Upcoming deadlines
For many artists, fall is application season, from teaching jobs and exhibitions to grants and residencies. The following is a list of some residency deadlines […]
EMAIL: Wendy White’s studio
In the email press release for “Pick up a Knock,” Wendy White’s upcoming solo show, I received this studio shot of her new paintings. Hard to […]
Stephen Maine on Gorky’s Grandaughter
Stephen Maine has always been a favorite critic at Two Coats of Paint, and recently Gorky’s Grandaughter visited his Brooklyn studio to talk about his […]
Back-to-school at Pocket U-niversity
On August 4th at Pocket Utopia, artist-curator-writer Sarah Schmerler and galler-artist Austin Thomas convened �Session One,” the first of several conclaves dedicated to collaborative learning […]
Joanne Mattera’s new angle
In 2012 Joanne Mattera turned the 12 x 12 inch square that she had been working with for several years forty-five degrees and began exploring […]
MUST SEE: Charline von Heyl at Petzel
On Friday Charline von Heyl’s seventh solo show opened at Petzel, and the paintings look fantastic. Two Coats is putting this exhibition on the top […]
Mark your calendars: September events (and how to get a free backpack)
On Thursday, September 12, 5 – 7 pm, please join me for the opening of “Sharon Butler: Dense Surveillance,” a solo show at the Fine […]
The things around us: Melissa Meyer
Over the past year, curator, writer and gallery director Stephanie Buhmann has been conducting a series of conversations with artists, which she has generously made […]


































