Mark Greenwold, “Secret Storm,” 1970-71, oil on canvas, 72 x 55 1/2″ Mark Greenwold, “Spanish Mediterranean Bedroom,” 1971, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 81 3/4″ […]
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Like “bruised flesh and dried blood, urine stains and sour milk”
Marlene Dumas, “Under Construction,” 2009, oil on linen, 70 7/8 x 118 1/8 x 1″ Marlene Dumas, “Wall Wailing,” 2009, oil on linen, 70 7/8 […]
#class demonstrated the unequivocal power of social media…but now what?
“Collecting With Your Eye, Not Your Ear,” discussion organized by Barry Hoggard and James Wagner. Image courtesy Winkleman Gallery. #class, a sprawling and innovative project […]
Roberta Smith on painting today
“Fellow” by Leidy Churchman. Courtesy Horton Gallery. Untitled by Jakub Julian Ziolkowski. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Detail of “Urban Grid, Riffs on […]
Studio visit: Austin Thomas
Here are some images from a recent visit to Austin Thomas’s studio, where three-dimensional collages, text-based drawings, and handmade prints line the walls. Small-scale and […]
Mark Grotjahn’s personal code
Mark Grotjahn at Blum & Poe, installation view. Mark Grotjahn, “Untitled (Face R. Stripped 776),” 2008, oil on cardboard mounted on linen, 60-1 /2 x […]
NY Times Art in Review: Paschke, Hafif
“Ed Paschke,” curated by his former studio assistant Jeff Koons. Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY. Through April 24. Ken Johnson reports: Imagine a phosphorescent […]
Lucian Freud: Topless
Lucian Freud, working at night. Courtesy Centre George Pompidou Lucian Freud: L’Atelier at the Centre George Pompidou is based on the theme of the painter’s […]
Unbelievable: Nudes removed from city building in Connecticut town
One of Roger Van Damme’s nudes–but not the one in the story. According to Channel 3, a painting of a nude figure hanging in […]
Julie Mehretu’s oceanic sweep
Installing Julie Mehretu’s mural at Goldman Sachs via Art21 on Vimeo. In the New Yorker this week Calvin Tompkins profiles Julie Mehretu. “Eighty feet long […]
Dan Walsh: “Just enough humanity to keep formalist ossification at bay”
In Artforum, Michael Wilson reports that Dan Walsh’s artistic approach is so clear and careful that perhaps it’s better discussed in terms of gradual […]
Update on the painting horse movement
Buggs and Carol Jensen working at the easel in the barn, er, I mean studio. Buggs’s paintings. In the Journal Sentinel, Erin Richards reports that […]
Twitter notes
Here are some recent items cut and pasted from the Two Coats Twitter Feed. For readers unfamiliar with Twitter, “RT” indicates the item has been […]
The devil-may-care spirit
Henry Taylor, “My Brother Gene the former ‘Tunnel Rat,’ acrylic on canvas, 72 x 60” Henry Taylor, “Jesse Owens in �36,” 2010, acrylic on canvas, […]
On the corner of Fifth and Hyperallergic
Stardust Atkeson, �Night Watch – Bernie Mac,� 2009, 22 x 24″ At Hyperallergic, it’s Big Show Review Week. Brent Burket is in the process of […]
