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Big Love: My notes from the panel discussion at “Status Update” exhibition in New Haven

May 16, 2009

Read more about the panel and exhibition, and see pictures, in the New Haven Independent. Related post:“Status Update” in New Haven

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Big Love: Artists and Social Networking Technology

April 23, 2009

“Big Love,” a conversation I’m organizing via the FaceBook Event Invitation feature, is part of the “Status Update” show at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven. Confirmed guests include Matt Held (I�ll Have my Facebook Portrait Painted by Matt Held), Paddy Johnson (Art Fag City), Sharon Kleinman (author of Displacing Place), […]

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Details from Brice Marden’s last paintings, on view @gagosian UES. Pencil grid, underpainting, brush hairs, drool, shaky hand. Poignant end to a painting story. #bricemarden #underpaintings #workinprogress

Details from Brice Marden’s last paintings, on view @gagosian UES. Pencil grid, underpainting, brush hairs, drool, shaky hand. Poignant end to a painting story. #bricemarden #underpaintings #workinprogress

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Latest post, link in profile / Note that the Two Coats of Paint Selected Gallery Guide now includes listings for galleries in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Welcome to the Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide! Link in profile

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Latest post, link in profile / What’s up out of town? At Jack Shainman The School in Kinderhook, take some time at the sprawling installation by Meleko Mokgosi, co-director of Graduate Studies in Painting/Printmaking at Yale. Employing a range of media dense with meaningful images and ideas, the show explores the theme of subjugation. Also in Kinderhook, stop by SEPTEMBER for “Of Waves,” a two-person abstraction exhibition featuring London-based Jane Bustin and Hudson Valley-based Anne Lindberg. The two painters investigate the things we can feel but can’t see or touch.

Carrie Haddid has an elegant group landscape show called “Vanishing Point.” Also in a landscape mode but perhaps less somber is Mary Breneman’s bold landscapes at D’Arcy Simpson, which recall Marsden Hartley’s paintings of Maine. On view at Pamela Salisbury are Kozloff’s maps and a group show of work inspired by books as well as Robin Hill’s rustic-industrial sculptures.

At LABspace, Julie and Ellen have put together another fine “Holiday” sampler exhibition featuring hundreds of small works by notable artists from the Hudson Valley, Brooklyn, and beyond. Front Room Gallery and Buster Levi too offer group shows of work that would be perfect for heirloom gift-giving.

In Chatham, at Joyce Goldstein, don’t miss “Horizon Line.” Curated by Susan Jennings and David Humphrey, this will be the last show at the gallery unless someone steps up to take over the lease.

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@jackshainman @septembergallery @carriehaddadgallery @frontroomnyc @busterlevi_gallery @labspace_art @joycegoldsteingallery @darcysimpsonartworks @pamelasalisburyhudson #heyhillsdaleny #hudsonvalleyart #hudsonvalleygallery @rhillstudio #marsdenhartley #landscapepainting @turleygallery @suznjennings @aikenhump @julieatorres @eletcher @yale.mfa.program @janebustin @annelindbergstudio @furnace_artonpaper @kenisebarnesfineart carolcoreyfineart @bernayfineart @deborah_zlotsky @goldmontclair @standardspaceco

Latest post, link in profile / MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
Emilio Vedova: Venice’s Abstract Expressionist / Contributed by David Carrier / Emilio Vedova (1919–2006), who lived and worked in Venice, was once aptly dubbed the Jackson Pollock of the barricades. Employing that American painter’s gestural technique, Vedova made political art. “Rivoluzione Vedova” – “Revolution Vedova” – is an appreciative retrospective of his work on the third floor of the spacious M9 Museum of the 20th Century in Mestre, a very short train ride from Venice. It includes five of his small, quasi-figurative paintings from 1945; a number of his larger abstractions from the 1960s; Absurdes Berliner Tagebuch ’64, a series of paintings on wood made in Berlin; photomontages from 1968; tondos from 1985; and an elaborate installation of his heavily pigmented panels. Link in profile

@carrier3909 @emilio_vedova.cg @emiliovedova_art @m9museum #emiliovedoba #davidcarrier

Latest post, link in profile / What’s up in the Hudson Valley? At Jack Shainman The School in Kinderhook, take some time at the sprawling installation by Meleko Mokgosi, co-director of Graduate Studies in Painting/Printmaking at Yale. Employing a range of media dense with meaningful images and ideas, the show explores the theme of subjugation. Also in Kinderhook, stop by SEPTEMBER for “Of Waves,” a two-person abstraction exhibition featuring London-based Jane Bustin and Hudson Valley-based Anne Lindberg. The two painters investigate the things we can feel but can’t see or touch. Carrie Haddid has an elegant group landscape show called “Vanishing Point.” Also in a landscape mode but perhaps less somber is Mary Breneman’s bold landscapes at D’Arcy Simpson, which recall Marsden Hartley’s paintings of Maine. On view at Pamela Salisbury are Kozloff’s maps and a group show of work inspired by books as well as Robin Hill’s rustic-industrial sculptures.

At LABspace, Julie and Ellen have put together another fine “Holiday” sampler exhibition featuring hundreds of small works by notable artists from the Hudson Valley, Brooklyn, and beyond. Front Room Gallery and Buster Levi too offer group shows of work that would be perfect for heirloom gift-giving.

In Chatham, at Joyce Goldstein, don’t miss “Horizon Line.” Curated by Susan Jennings and David Humphrey, this will be the last show at the gallery unless someone steps up to take over the lease.

Take a look at the post as there is more worth checking out. Use the Two Coats of Paint handy interactive map to the Hudson Valley art region to help find all the galleries on the list and others. Link in profile

Image: Headstone Gallery, Greta Johnson

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Today is the day! Thanks @labspace_art for all you do 🎁Posted @withregram • @labspace_art HOLIDAY OPENS TODAY 1-5PM! 🎉

2-Day Opening Celebration begins in 30 minutes! 🏃🏻‍♀️

Saturday November 25 + Sunday November 26th, 1-5pm both days❣️

We have pumpkin chocolate chip cookies from @cookandlarder 🍪 and we can’t wait to celebrate this incredible show with you

HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL 365 ARTISTS FOR YOUR BEAUTIFUL WORK ❤️

See you here SOON! 🎊

Inquiries: julielabspace@gmail.com
Exhibition checklist coming soon!

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HOLIDAY
annual exhibition of small, affordable work from 365 artists

2-Day Opening Celebration: Today + Tomorrow, Saturday November 25 + Sunday November 26th, 1-5pm both days🥂

On view Saturdays + Sundays 1-5pm through February 11

@labspace_art
2642 Route 23 Hillsdale NY

17 miles east of Hudson NY
17 miles north of Millerton NY
11 miles west of Great Barrington MA

#labspaceart #holidayatlabspace @heyhillsdaleny #heyhillsdaleny #hillsdale #hillsdaleny #hudsonvalleyart #hudsonvalleygallery #hudsonvalleyny #columbiacountyny #hudsonvalleyartists #pioneervalleyartists #berkshireartists #connecticutartists #massachusettsartists #newyorkartists

Today is the day! Thanks @labspace_art for all you do 🎁Posted @withregram • @labspace_art HOLIDAY OPENS TODAY 1-5PM! 🎉

2-Day Opening Celebration begins in 30 minutes! 🏃🏻‍♀️

Saturday November 25 + Sunday November 26th, 1-5pm both days❣️

We have pumpkin chocolate chip cookies from @cookandlarder 🍪 and we can’t wait to celebrate this incredible show with you

HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL 365 ARTISTS FOR YOUR BEAUTIFUL WORK ❤️

See you here SOON! 🎊

Inquiries: julielabspace@gmail.com
Exhibition checklist coming soon!

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HOLIDAY
annual exhibition of small, affordable work from 365 artists

2-Day Opening Celebration: Today + Tomorrow, Saturday November 25 + Sunday November 26th, 1-5pm both days🥂

On view Saturdays + Sundays 1-5pm through February 11

@labspace_art
2642 Route 23 Hillsdale NY

17 miles east of Hudson NY
17 miles north of Millerton NY
11 miles west of Great Barrington MA

#labspaceart #holidayatlabspace @heyhillsdaleny #heyhillsdaleny #hillsdale #hillsdaleny #hudsonvalleyart #hudsonvalleygallery #hudsonvalleyny #columbiacountyny #hudsonvalleyartists #pioneervalleyartists #berkshireartists #connecticutartists #massachusettsartists #newyorkartists

Latest post, link in profile / Hannah Antalek’s crystal ball: Magical and disconcerting / Contributed by Heather Drayzen / “Superseed,” Hannah Antalek’s debut NYC solo exhibition at 5-50 gallery in Long Island City, draws on our species’ overall apathy about the environment. A surreal, dream-like sensibility informs a bio-luminescent vision of nature, cumulatively derived from dioramas she constructs from recyclable materials. She pulls us into a magical but also disconcerting world. Link in profile

Image: Hannah Antalek, Perpetual Aurora, 2023, oil on canvas, 32 x 24 inches

@hannah_antalek @heatherdrayzen @550gallery #licgallery @twocoatsofpaint #superseed

Latest post, link in profile / Nancy Davidson’s wandering carnival / Contributed by Fintan Boyle / A sense of serious satire has pervaded Nancy Davidson’s work for years, and it is on prominent display in her show “Braids Eggs and Legs: A Wandering,” installed in two large galleries at Catskill Art Space alongside Matt Nolen’s work. Davidson has long been a fan of morselized language and sundered bodies, which in theory would make her work fertile ground for the psychoanalytically inclined. Yet here she elides the sexual menace and violence that, say, Melanie Klein offers. Instead, she wanders, as her title announces. Link in profile

Image: Nancy Davidson, Eyeenvy, 2017, Catskill Art Space, Photo Credit: Therri Gourjon

@nancydavidsonnyc #fintanboyle @catskillartspace #upstateart #inflatableart #nancydavidson @twocoatsofpaint

OPEN CALL! Apply today for NYC Crit Club`s Plum Lime Residency / Winter 2024 ❄️⏰ / Guest Juror: Paddy Johnson
Founder of VVrkshop

The Plum Lime Residency will grant one artist a free 550 sq. ft. private studio space for 5 weeks (January 15 - February 17, 2024) this winter in Bushwick (Brooklyn)!

Application Period:
November 1 - 26, 2023
Nov. 1 - 13 ($20 application fee)
Nov. 14 - 26 ($25 application fee)

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@vvrkshop.art @artfcity

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Image: PLR Studio during Ray Hwang’s residency @rayhwangart

OPEN CALL! Apply today for NYC Crit Club's Plum Lime Residency / Winter 2024 ❄️⏰ / Guest Juror: Paddy Johnson
Founder of VVrkshop

The Plum Lime Residency will grant one artist a free 550 sq. ft. private studio space for 5 weeks (January 15 - February 17, 2024) this winter in Bushwick (Brooklyn)!

Application Period:
November 1 - 26, 2023
Nov. 1 - 13 ($20 application fee)
Nov. 14 - 26 ($25 application fee)

@nyccritclub @plum_lime_artist_residency
@vvrkshop.art @artfcity

#bushwickartist #nycartists #artistsresidency #twocoatssponsor

Image: PLR Studio during Ray Hwang’s residency @rayhwangart

Latest post, link in profile / Interview: Holly Miller’s transatlantic sensibility / Contributed by Leslie Wayne / If you meet Holly Miller on the street, you will encounter a warm, exuberant, emotionally expressive, and funny person who immediately pulls you into her space. You would not expect her art to be highly controlled, minimal, and geometric. Yet she has built her career on paintings that are just that – slightly irregular geometric shapes, flatly painted and intersected by lines sewn with thread. But Miller is now at a crossroads and her work is suddenly exploding outward, making room for new materials, chance encounters, and unpredictable forms. Perhaps, as with many artists, COVID has had something to do with this shift. Life seems a little more precious these days, and taking new aesthetic chances is a small way of asserting courage in the face of the unknown. Link in profile

Image: Holly Miller, Radiant, 2023

@wayneporcaro @hollymiller.art @magazzino #hollymiller @svamfafinearts #parisartists #twocoatsofpaint @twocoatsofpaint #artepovera

Latest post, link in profile / The evolution of Justine Hill / Contributed by Riad Miah / It is a pleasure to watch an artist evolve and see surprising changes, as in the case of Justine Hill with her current exhibition “Omphalos” at Dimin Gallery. Over the course of four solos, elements of her work have remained consistent. These include the cut-out shapes that jostle to fit together, and the color that complements (or contradicts) abutting forms. Hill’s earlier work has been likened to the masterful Elizabeth Murray’s. The comparison was apt enough insofar as she, like Murray, worked on irregularly shaped canvases, but it didn’t seem to go much deeper than that until now. Link in profile

Image: Justine Hill, Bend 2, 2023, acrylic, pastel, oil stick, and paper on canvas, 67 x 69 inches

@riad_miah @jteenhill @dimin.nyc #contemporarypainting #twocoatsofpaint @twocoatsofpaint

Latest post, link in profile / Katherine Bradford: Heaven on Earth / Contributed by Rick Briggs / To one growing up Catholic, heaven and hell were in no way, shape, or form mere metaphors for possible destinations in the afterlife. They were very real places to spend all eternity, either heavenly salvation or eternal damnation. Forty years ago, Katherine Bradford proposed an exhibition to Chris Martin and me titled “3 Catholics.” While it never took place, the idea was to gather three lapsed Catholics who shared that particular cultural grounding and also similar painting values, and who were all now earnestly in pursuit of our new religion – Painting. This memory came wafting back to me the morning after viewing “Arms and the Sea,” Bradford’s solo show of remarkable new paintings at Canada. Link in profile

Image: Katherine Bradford, Swimmers Under Pink Sky, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 68 inches

@kathebradford @ricbriggs @canada.nyc @twocoatsofpaint #swimmingpainting #nightpainting @chrismartin764

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