Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Friday, September 22, 2023
Torsten Slama, “Walt Whitman Memorial Refinery/Walt-Whitman-Gedenk-Raffinerie,” 2005, India ink on illustration board, 28 x 40 inches. Collection Beth Rudin de Woody, New York Rebecca Cochran reports in ArtForum that Berlin-based artist Torsten Slama’s first museum show features an unnerving postapocalyptic world. “Part science fiction, part prophecy, his desolate landscape paintings […]
Amy Sillman, “Platypus,” 2009, oil on canvas, 85 x 90 1/2″. In ArtForum Joanna Fiduccia reports that during Amy Sillman’s residency in Berlin, she produced a zine that included images plus text excerpted from writing by David Joselit, Ad Reinhardt, and Francis Ponge. In addition, she included a section of […]
In ArtForum this month, Annie Buckley picks Jim Isermann�s elegant psychedelic paintings, which have graced the walls, floors, and ceilings of galleries, hotels, universities, stores, and museums over the past twenty-five years. “Using vinyl, plastic, linoleum, and�perhaps most memorably�a product called Put-in-Cups, Isermann culls and amplifies the basic principles of […]
In ArtForum Joseph R. Wolin reports that Matthew Fisher loves a man in a uniform. “His faux-na�f paintings depict soldiers dressed in fanciful costumes and arranged in elaborate tableaux, as if staging narrative allegories. Yet, for all their folk-art charm, their import remains obscure. What might the artist intend, for […]
David Nolan features work by Serban Savu this month. Savu, part of a group of artists from Cluj, schooled in the tradition of Social Realism, grew up during the 1989 overturn of the Communist regime. He is one of the few painters from this group who still lives and works […]
In ArtForum Karen Kurczynski reviews three recent sixtieth-anniversary exhibitions dedicated to CoBrA, at the Mus�es Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels (where the new Two Coats of Paint header photograph was taken), the CoBrA Museum voor Moderne Kunst in Amstelveen, and the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. “Formed in Paris in […]
In Artforum, critic Sean Carrol singles out Anders Oinonen’s show at Houston’s CTRL Gallery this month. When I was in Miami last year, Oinonen’s work stood out for it’s easygoing oddness; it’s good to see him get an endorsement. “Bewilderment and tension give way to calm and understanding when looking […]
In ArtForum, Nicole Eisenman talks to Brian Sholis about her new work. “During the past fifteen years,” Sholis writes, “New York-based Eisenman has created a self-aware and psychologically probing body of work that includes installations, animations, drawings, and, with increasing focus, paintings. ‘I made the paintings in this exhibition throughout […]
Paddy Johnson at Art Fag City writes that ArtForum�s Editor in Chief Tim Griffin “offers up more art speak and over quoted scholarship in the first paragraph of this month�s Editor�s Letter, than should ever be necessary in a 1000 word summary of what�s in the magazine. ‘A corollary of […]
London-based Mie Olise Kj�rgaard, born in 1974 in Denmark, is a finalist for the 2008 John Moores Painting Prize and will be participating in the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York next year. In the summer issue of ArtForum critic Garland Fielder has recommended her exhibition in Houston, […]
Two Coats Obituaries
Swedish-born and UK-based, artist, activist, writer and eco-feminist Monica Sjöö (31 December 1938 - 8 August 2005) fought for freedom from oppression, but especially for women’s rights. “THE GREAT COSMIC MOTHER” @modernamuseet is her first retrospective. Swipe for the image that was considered blasphemous and obscene in the 1970s.
Rejecting abstract art as a Western male privilege, she asked: “How does one communicate women’s strength, struggle, rising up from oppression, blood, childbirth, sexuality – in stripes and triangles?”
#MonicaSjöö #cosmicmother #modernamuseet #stockholm
In the studio of Prince Eugen Napoleon Nicolaus of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Närke (1 August 1865 – 17 August 1947) was a Swedish painter, art collector, and patron of artists. Swipe through for a wide angle of his attic studio. Yes, it has a water view :) #stockholmartist #Waldemarsudde #Djurgården #princeeugen #landscapepainting
Save the date: Two Coats of Paint is hosting our first Hudson Valley Gallery Crawl on Oct 14 and 15. 💥 To kick off the weekend, we`re organizing a live conversation on the evening of Friday, October 13, moderated by Two Coats of Paint publisher @sharon_butler / Details to come ✍️
Participating galleries include:
Analog Diary
Art Sales & Research
Artport Kingston
Buster Levi
Collar Works
D’Arcy Simpson Art Works
Susan Eley Fine Art
Elijah Wheat Showroom
Front Room Gallery
Galerie Gris
Garage Gallery
Garrison Art Center
Geary
Joyce Goldstein Gallery
Alexander Gray Associates
Carrie Haddad Gallery
Hudson Hall
LABspace
Lightforms Art Center
Lockwood Gallery
Mother Gallery
Opalka Gallery
Private Public Gallery
The Re Institute
SEPTEMBER
Pamela Salisbury Gallery
Turley Gallery
Visitor Center
Woodstock Artists Association & Museum
@analogdiary.art @artsalesandresearch @artportkingston @busterlevi_gallery @collarworks @darcysimpsonartworks @sefa_gallery @elijah_wheat_showroom @frontroomnyc @galerie_gris @garagegallerybeacon @garrisonartcenter @gearycontemporary @joycegoldsteingallery @alexandergrayassociates @carriehaddadgallery @hudsonhallny @labspace_art @lightforms_art_center @thelockwoodgallery1 @mothergallery @opalka_gallery @privatepublicgalleryhudson @the_re_instititute @septembergallery @pamelasalisburyhudson @turleygallery @visitorcenterspace @waamart
Look for more info both here and on www.twocoatsofpaint (link in profile)
See you there 😎 🍻
Latest post, link in profile / Ed Ruscha’s retro spective / Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / The work of the Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha is often referred to as a West Coast version of Pop Art. The implication, of course, is that since it didn’t come out of New York, it must be inferior. His retrospective “Now Then,” his first at the Museum of Modern Art and first in New York since 1983, contains over 200 works from 1958 to the present…. Despite its outward similarity to conceptual art and New York Pop Art, Ruscha’s work feels decidedly different. Link in profile
Image: Ed Ruscha, The Los Angeles County Museum on Fire, 1965-68, oil on canvas, 135.89 x 339.09 cm
@edruschaofficial @themuseumofmodernart @lauriefendrich #edruscha #moma #lauriefendrich
New post, link in profile / Selected Paintings from SPRING/BREAK NYC 2023 / Contributed by Fay Sanders and Bob Szyantyr / In a shift befitting this year’s theme, !WILD CARD!, the Spring/Break Art Show departs from its past trajectory of more-and-bigger spectacle, year after year. Building on the “Secret Show” of this past spring, which returned to the Old School where the fair began, the organizers asked artists for this year’s show at 625 Madison to revisit past themes with a mix of nostalgia, homage, and cheekiness. Link in profile
Image: Jackson Hill (detail) / Booth 1018 “Backyards” curated by Todd Cramer. Featuring artists Todd Cramer + Jackson Hill + Guillermo Amat. Theme: Fact and Fiction (2019)
#springbreakartshow #springbreakartshow2023 @faysanders_ @blahbert @springbreakartshow @ambrekelly @andrewgoriandfriends @jacksonhillart @debbikenote
When I got the email from @alexandregallery yesterday, announcing that they were presenting a clutch of #lorenmaciver paintings @independent_hq, I scrambled for a press ticket to the preview so I could see the work one more time before it passed into private hands. The fair, located on the waterfront next to the Staten Island Ferry, was nothing if not elegant, and the MacIvers didn’t disappoint. Here are details of a MacIver and some other pieces that caught my eye. Then I walked over to Pier 11 and took the ferry back to the studio in Dumbo. Great morning 💥Sorry not to have images of the Sigmar Polke photographs — knockout @sieshoeke — Kenwyn Critchlow paintings @dianerosenstein, the Mary Dill Henry paintings and notes @hauserwirth, Emilio Cruz @corbettvsdempsey, and others. If you can’t make it to the fair, go look them up. Tags to come, but feel free to identify in the comments.
#independent20thcentury #painting #lorenmaciver #alexandregallery
