Sheila Barbone, “Watch Hill 15,” 18″x23″ oil on panel. Courtesy of Trade Winds Gallery, Mystic, CT. I’ll be at on vacation for the week but […]
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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 […]
IMAGES: Clare Grill
Clare Grill, “Tape,” 2011, oil on linen, 11 x 11.” Clare Grill, “Gimcrack, 2011, oil on linen, 20 x 19.” This week I saw a […]
“Unapologetically carnal and verging on the grotesque”
Ion Birch, “Le Papillon,” 2010, graphite on paper, 25×22″ How can we not love the bawdy irreverence of summer group shows like “Romantic Agony,” which […]
Kara Walker: The wilder shores
Kara Walker at Sikkema Jenkins, installation view. “This new work is also an object lesson for artists. Walker�s discipline and willingness to return to […]
Who is Kay Sage?
Contributed by Sharon Butler / A few years ago I was at the Mattatuck Museum checking out the Connecticut Biennial, and I ran across a […]
Chris Martin’s bigness
When I first started writing for The Rail, in an article about the Tomma Abts show at the New Museum, I took a quote from […]
Seeing silver
At Martos Gallery: Davina Semo, “THEIR NOSTRILS SNIFF THE ORGY BEHIND THE WALL OF FLAME AND STEEL,” 2011, spray paint on safety glass, reinforced concrete, […]
The New Casualists
Contributed by Sharon Butler / The pioneers of abstraction — the Cubists, the Abstract Expressionists, the Minimalists — emerged from firm and identifiable aesthetic roots […]
Artists who curate: “Creating opportunities for felicitous constellations”
The other day Austin Thomas, who is feeling overwhelmed with emails from struggling artists, blogged some career advice. Rather than continually ask other people for […]
Blog Pick: Raggedy Ann’s Foot
A while back I wrote about painter Elisabeth Condon’s excellent show at Lesley Heller, and I forgot to mention that Condon also writes a terrific […]
Images: Margrit Lewczuk
Margrit Lewczuk, small study on note paper. Margrit Lewczuk had an exhibition recently at Janet Kurnatowski in Brooklyn where she showed several paintings and many […]
Forget-me-nots @ Hygienic Arts
Update (June 3): View installation shots here. If you are in Connecticut, or passing through on your way to the shore, stop by Hygienic Arts, […]
Studio Update
As readers may already know, I recently moved into a studio at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in NYC. For the new series of […]
Inside the painter’s head
The paintings that Stephanie Theodore has assembled in “Three” each seem to suggest a narrative, but rather than recounting dreary visual facts, the painters opt […]
