Contributed by Mary Jones / One of many pleasures in “Mashups,” Nancy Evans’s show at Sargent’s Daughters, is the sensation of immersive color. Eight abstract paintings, all 26 x 20 inches, reverberate softly with veils of translucent gradients and undulating organic form. The work is grounded in American Modernism, and a baseline of particular influences come to mind: Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keefe, Charles Burchfield, and, as a watercolorist, Helen Frankenthaler. But Evans finds her own domain through a mediated technical process that generates luminous depth.
Tag: Carrie Moyer
Images: Carrie Moyer at Mary Boone
Contributed by Sharon Butler / What you can�t see clearly in online images of Carrie Moyer�s new paintings, on view at Mary Boone (in conjunction with […]
Catalogue essay: COVER THE EARTH by Stephen Maine
Curated by artists Elisabeth Condon and Carol Prusa, “POUR,” an exhibition that examines the use of poured paint in contemporary art practice, opens this week at the Schmidt Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, in Boca Raton, Florida. Condon, a painting professor at University of South Florida and Prusa, a painting prof at FAU, tapped Stephen Maine to write the essay, which references Pollock, Kaprow, Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, James Brooks and others.
Painting of the Week: Lucky (Mr. Torso)
Contributed by Sharon Butler / This week, wandering around Chelsea, I was struck by Andrea Champlin’s gutsy little painting in “Vivid,” an exhibition […]
Pepe brings old-school lesbian feminist imagery to Las Vegas
Sheila Pepe’s collaborative installation, “Yo Mama” is on view in Las Vegas through the end of the month. In the Las Vegas Weekly Danielle Kelly […]
Jukkala doesn’t name names in New Haven
The current show at Artspace in New Haven, CT, highlights seven painters whose abstract work focuses on elements of color, shape, and surface. The imagery […]




















