Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Anyone walking out of the Vija Celmins retrospective that opened last week at SFMoMA thinking how good she is at […]
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Exhibition essay: Sarah Sentilles on Nancy Bowen at Kentler International Drawing Space
Contributed by Sarah Sentilles / Nancy Bowen calls herself an “artistic archaeologist,” and in her exhibition “For Each Ecstatic Instant,” you can see the fragments […]
Carter Ratcliff: Art in the age of Trump
Contributed by Carter Ratcliff / Let�s begin with a painting�not sure it�s a work of art�that could have been painted only now, during Trump�s presidency. This […]
On file: Leslie Brack at Cathouse Proper
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Offices were once equipped with typewriters, copy machines, and paperclips, and, of course, contained the files that organized and stored […]
Lunchtime dystopia: CON-Figuration at Postmasters
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Not far from the courthouse, wandering jurors like myself might happen upon Postmasters Gallery on Franklin Street during the mandated […]
A better bonfire at the Whitney: Painting from the 1980s
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / “Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s,” the Whitney’s trenchant exhibition of American work, immediately recalls the Reagan era, when bluffness […]
Rainy day in New York
When I got to the studio this dreary grey morning, my coat and tote bags were sopping wet. Looking up from the building’s entrance on […]
Ideas and Influences: Brece Honeycutt
Artist and citizen naturalist Brece Honeycutt lives in Massachusetts, on a colonial farmhouse in the foothills of the Berkshire mountains. Fascinated with the history of […]
Storage or dumpster? Organizing the archives
Readers who have been following Two Coats of Paint since the beginning know that for ten years I taught at a state university in Connecticut […]
The gap between: “Unfinished” at the Met Breuer
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In recent years, artists have been interested in “slippage.” In painting, that often translates into an exploration of the space […]
Gedi Sibony’s backwards images in Greater New York
In “Greater New York” at MoMA PS1, Gedi Sibony, known for his early assemblages of carpet and drywall, is represented by nine framed pieces that […]
Interview: Daniel Kingery in Hunt’s Point
Contributed by Rob Kaiser-Schatzlein / The four paintings I looked at in Daniel Kingery‘s Bronx studio are all medium-sized, human scale. Paint application strategies vary […]
Report: “Command-Z” at Improvised Showboat
Improvised Showboat, a curatorial project developed by artists Zachary Keeting and Lauren Britton, mounted its seventh one-night show this past weekend in my new […]
Web world: The New Museum’s 2015 Triennial
Entering the New Museum’s 2015 Triennial “Surround Audience” is like stepping into someone else�s search history. If you�re passionate about the same information that he […]
Responses to “Zombie Formalism”
My last post precipitated several comments about Walter Robinson’s term “Zombie Formalism” and about the type of work discussed, as well as some offline discussion […]
Jerry Saltz’s burden
James Panero and me discussing social networking media face-to-face over pizza and beer at an exhibition at STOREFRONT in Bushwick. Photo courtesy Jason Andrew. In […]
The discourse: Helen Frankenthaler
�Painting is very private and personal….There�s an emotional content, but I�m more involved in the light and color and drawing of a painting. I don�t […]
Frieze: Unprimed immediacy
Since the early days of Color Field painting, working on unprimed canvas or linen has given the impression of a certain unfinished immediacy–more like the […]
Helen Frankenthaler: More profound than lyric
After seeing the exhibition at Gagosian, I’ve become a huge Helen Frankenthaler fan. Curated by John Elderfield, Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture […]
Halvorson and Hawkins: Two kinds of cool
One kind of cool is no-nonsense virtuoso paint-handling that calmly vivifies the world as it slowly turns, of the kind on display in […]
