If you want to support artists but can’t face visiting 199 booths in one go at a mega-fair like the Armory, I recommend stopping by Salon Z�rcher on Bleecker Street (image above) where gallerist Gwenolee Z�rcher always invites a handful of galleries to mount exhibitions in her space during fair week. […]

I love spending summers in NYC. For artists who stick around and work in their studios during July and August,  NYC is one big art party, featuring a slew of group shows, each with openings, closings and often other events in between. Since list-maker Andrew Ginzel is on hiatus until […]

An exquisite Arshile Gorky pencil and crayon drawing is the focal point for Jason Andrew‘s latest curatorial blockbuster, “Arshile Gorky and a selection of contemporary drawings,” at Outlet Fine Art in Bushwick. Fully displaying Andrew’s curatorial acumen, the show features work by over thirty artists. Some pieces–like Joan Snyder’s and […]

Two recommendations for Brooklyn gallery visits: At Outlet Fine Art, seasoned painter Hermine Ford continues her exploration of urban decay and renewal in quirky shaped canvases that depict fragments of floor tile mosaics. In the new work Ford begins to loosen up, combining a more gestural painting approach and larger […]

Here’s a JPEG report from a busy weekend that included a slew of studio visits, and Bushwick’s Beat Nite. I also got a chance to see the new film about Camille Claudel at the Film Forum. After Claudel was committed to an asylum by her jealous, deluded brother in 1913, […]

Lately, exasperated by a custody dispute over my almost-14-year-old daughter, I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a woman, and more specifically, what it means to be an artist mother. With some of my daughter’s heartbreaking reproaches about my art practice seared in my brain, I ventured out […]

Norte Maar director Jason Andrew recently curated “Giacometti and a selection of contemporary drawings,” an exhibition that links contemporary drawing with the work of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966). In his statement for the show, Andrew writes that Giacometti holds a special place in the history of 20th Century art. Any encounter […]

Continuing the “Artists as Curators” series this week, let’s look at “The escape from the banal of everyday life to the world of the ideal,” an exhibition at NURTUREart curated by Brooke Moyse, a Brooklyn-based abstract painter known for vivid color and casual landscape imagery. Moyse begins her essay, which […]

At The L Magazine, Paul D’Agostino selects several must-see exhibitions, including “Beyond the Bedroom” at Norte Maar, a group exhibition that features work from Jason Andrew’s personal collection. I haven’t been over to check out the show, but since my name is on the roster, I suspect this painting, which […]