Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Monday, August 8, 2022
Contributed by Sharon Butler / For the past week I’ve been holed up in my apartment with Covid, so I may not make it to your opening tonight. No need to send condolences — at this point it’s just a case of the sniffles and I’ve enjoyed hanging around the house. I’ll be back out in a day or two, bike riding around town and (once an academic always an academic) spending long, lazy days in the studio. There are a lot of good exhibitions to see this month including …
Contributed by Patrick Neal / Full of bright and brimming lines and shapes, jumbled with quirky geometric forms and zippy colors, Gary Petersen’s paintings are giddy and uplifting. They bring to mind all manner of fun – vacation, travel, cartoons, toys, television, Creamsicles, candies, fruit slices and braided rag rugs, the flamboyant bills of toucans and pelicans. More deeply, his large abstract paintings exude a retro, utopian vibe that marries the hard-edge abstraction of late modernism with some of the quirkier strains of twentieth-century design.
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / The revised exhibition, at the Museum of fine Arts in Boston, with 73 paintings and 23 drawings, is a team effort mounted by the museum’s two curators, two guest curators, various museum staff and educators, the critic Homi Bhabha, and a trauma counselor who crafted a statement about “emotional preparedness” for the show. It begins: “The content of this exhibition is challenging. The Museum offers these words in a spirit of care and invitation.” Midway through the exhibition, visitors who find the material too disturbing can leave through a special exit before they encounter particularly vivid Klan imagery.
On March 31, 2022 Two Coats of Paint contributor Julia Kunin spoke with artist-reporters Violetta Oliinyk and Taras Polataiko to see how they were doing, and then she followed up on May 7. Due to unexpected technical issues at Two Coats of Paint, we have been unable to publish these interviews until today.
Contributed by Jackson O’Brasky / In her solo exhibition “Convention” at Bureau on the Lower East Side, Kate Spencer Stewart has rendered dialogues of the long, dark night of the soul into paint.
Contributed by Margaret McCann / In Sasha Gordon’s “The Hands of Others” at Jeffrey Deitch and Maud Madsen’s “Daisy Chain” at Marianne Boesky, fleshy females are pressed on the picture planes as if between corporeality and social stress. All are self-portraits, but the figures read more as types performing hidden allegories.
Contributed by Jacob Patrick Brooks / Titled “PLEASE IT IS MAKING THEM THANKS:),” Louis Osmosis’s debut solo show at Kapp Kapp Gallery in Tribeca feels like a 1,000-piece puzzle that’s been dumped on a table. Everything fits together, but it’s not immediately clear how.
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / As the title “Blue Italian Skies Above” suggests, walking into the exhibition of Edith Schloss’s paintings now at Alexandre Gallery produces a kind of pastoral contentment. But don’t be fooled into thinking she was a shallow, acquiescent Pollyanna. Lurking in that casual lightness is a distinct quality of mortality and limitation.
Contributed by Barry Nemett / With squiggly marks and brilliant colors bringing the bucolic outdoors indoors, the exhibit Joan Mitchell is a sensual delight. What a treat to feel, smell, and hear the French countryside’s springtime breezes and see its glorious summer’s colors in Baltimore.
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Here is a selection of art articles and books I’ve been reading and pondering this week.
![@miandn put some older work in conversation and the show looks great. Before I looked at the dates, I thought the artists were turning in a more minimal direction. #informalgettogether
ARLENE SHECHET
Tell All, 2021
Glazed ceramic and painted steel
62 1/2 by 21 by 16 inches
KELTIE FERRIS
HER*CU*LES, 2016
Oil and acrylic on canvas
110 by 80 inches
JESSICA STOCKHOLDER
Lack [JS 173], 1992
Westphalian basket, linen yarn, acrylic paint, metal cable and tree section with bark on edges
72 by 66 by 64 inches
JOANNE GREENBAUM
Fountain Sculpture, 2003
Oil on canvas
119 1/2 by 99 1/2 inches](https://twocoatsofpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png)
@miandn put some older work in conversation and the show looks great. Before I looked at the dates, I thought the artists were turning in a more minimal direction. #informalgettogether
ARLENE SHECHET
Tell All, 2021
Glazed ceramic and painted steel
62 1/2 by 21 by 16 inches
KELTIE FERRIS
HER*CU*LES, 2016
Oil and acrylic on canvas
110 by 80 inches
JESSICA STOCKHOLDER
Lack [JS 173], 1992
Westphalian basket, linen yarn, acrylic paint, metal cable and tree section with bark on edges
72 by 66 by 64 inches
JOANNE GREENBAUM
Fountain Sculpture, 2003
Oil on canvas
119 1/2 by 99 1/2 inches
Latest post, link in profile / Hudson Valley Selected Gallery Guide: August, 2022 / Contributed by @sharon_butler / In August the party continues beyond Upstate Art Weekend with a slew of interesting shows throughout the Hudson Valley region. On August 13th, I’ll be up in Hillsdale, NY (located east of Hudson, north of Millerton, west of Great Barrington), for the opening of “Guided by voices,” a group show at LABspace that includes work by me, Yura Adams, Lucy Mink, and Adrian Meraz. Please save the date to stop by from 1-5 and say hello! Link to “latest posts” in profile for the complete listings.
Image: tANJA gRUNERT: Susan Jennings, Blue Dot Jangle Dance, 2022, acrylic, found object, tape, glue, wire, and various bells, 18 x 18 inches
#hudsonvalleyart #galleryguide
Get over to @archiespress on E. 10th St to see “Brutes” @giovannigfnyc kinetic new edition of letterpress prints. Brawling, fighting, drunken, brutalizing. Six prints, each in an edition of 50. Even the show announcement is beautifully printed.
#letterpress #printmaking #archiespress #giovannigarciafenech #eastvillage #brutes
Latest post, link in profile / NYC Selected Gallery Guide: August, 2022 / contributed by @sharon_butler / August is the laziest month in New York. Everyone takes a breath, some leave town, and others gear up for their September shows. That said, there is still plenty to see, usually in air-conditioned comfort. And, because gallerists are understandably loath to open new shows at the end of August, many existing ones get extended beyond announced closing dates. On Friday, “Sunset” opens at @underdonk in Bushwick. A big group show focused on endings seems like the perfect way to kick off the end of summer. “Jung Lovers,” another expansive Brooklyn group show, is still on view at @soloway348 in Williamsburg. On the Lower East Side, see “Crucible” at @spencerbrownstonegallery through August 30. @dueyart curated “Offsight” at @james_fuentes_llc, and I hope it’s extended past its announced August 12 closing date. In Chelsea, “Why I Make Art by Brian Alfred” at @miles.mcenery.gallery includes work by my old colleague Carl Ostendarp and other favorites. “Informal Get Together,” at @miandn, brings together painting and sculpture by @keltieferris, @joannegreenbaumart @arleneshechet and @jessicastockholder. For a taste of Baltimore, check out “Charm City” at @asyageisberggallery, where @casecarolyn has curated a show of material-driven abstract work by artists with a connection to the city. On the Upper East Side, “Tango,” a beautifully curated and installed exhibition featuring unusual art pairings is on view at @jenniferbaahnggallery through August 17 and Hannah Black and Sophie Friedman-Pappas open at @meredithrosengallery on August 10. Link to full listing in profile.
#nycartgallery #painting #nycgalleryguide #chelseagalleries #brooklyngalleries #lesgalleries #uesgalleries #tribecagalleries
Latest post, link in profile / A conversation with Jamie Allen / Contributed by Mary Shah / Jamie Allen and I initially met as colleagues at Alexandre Gallery last fall, and we quickly became fans of each other’s paintings. We sat down recently to discuss her residency at New York Studio School (NYSS) DUMBO Studio that began in August 2021 and is culminating this month with a solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper at the residency program’s gallery. Link in profile.
#abstractpainting #jamieallen #maryshah #nyss #artindumbo #artistsresidency
