Galleries are trying to spread the news: dour Zombie Formalism is out; pop-inflected, often casualist, representational imagery is in. This summer Jesse Greenberg and MacGregor […]
Tag: Casualism
The backstory: Supports/Surfaces survey at CANADA
In 2011, seeing a relationship to the casualist tendency in contemporary art, I posted about Claude Viallat’s work and the inventive art movement known as […]
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 […]
Speculating on Andy Boot and Zombie Formalism
A few weeks ago, Cary Smith sent me an email with a link to Australian artist Andy Boot’s work. A scroll through his page on […]
IMAGES: John O’Donnell considers mimesis
It’s hard to tell if John O’Donnell is serious, and he seems to want it that way. Although known for his outlandish performances and kitschy […]
The Casualist tendency
This essay, which builds upon an essay about contemporary abstract painting that I wrote for The Brooklyn Rail in 2011, was just published in the […]
Smart Painting in New Haven
The ten artists in “Smart Painting,” an upcoming exhibition at New Haven’s Artspace Gallery, are an inquisitive group, asking a range of questions, which, at […]
Sarah Faux : Report from Yale
Guest Contributor Sarah Faux just completed her first semester in the Yale MFA program. She writes about the changes in her work and the diversity […]
Christopher Wool’s poetry of errors
Christopher Wool is obsessed with doing things wrong. In his retrospective at the Guggenheim, comprising nearly 90 paintings, photographs, and works on paper, Wool demonstrates […]
Quick Study: Melissa Meyer, Llewyn Davis, forgery and Casualism at The Art Blog
UPCOMING: Melissa Meyer @ Lennon Weinberg, Chelsea, New York, NY. Opens Thursday, January 9, 6-8 pm. (Image above: Melissa Meyer, Shuffle, 2013, 16 x […]
By any other name: Casualism at DODGE
Guest contributor: Jonathan Stevenson / Casualism � the explicit basis for Garis & Hahn�s group show �Dying on Stage� this past summer � is merely […]
July 18: Panel discussion on Casualism (and other forms of abstraction)
Please join me from 6:30 – 8:30 PM, at Garis & Hahn for artist presentations and a roundtable discussion of contemporary abstraction with curator Kyle […]
Weekend report: Casualism's heredity, visit to The Brooklyn Museum,Museum Hours, studio update
At Hyperallergic, Thomas Micchelli still has Casualism on the brain. In his excellent review of “Reinventing Abstraction,” an exhibition of 1980s abstract painting curated […]
Questions for Casualists
Contributed by Sharon Butler / This weekend at Hyperallergic Thomas Micchelli reviews Dying on Stage: New Painting in New York, the Garis & Hahn […]
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 […]
“Sharon Butler: Precisionist Casual” at Pocket Utopia
From the press release: Pocket Utopia is pleased to present “Precisionist Casual,” a solo exhibition of new paintings by Sharon Butler. The exhibition will […]
Amy Feldman: Practiced and rehearsed
If the imprecision in Todd Chilton’s work (discussed in the previous post) is the result of a slow, intuitive process, the drips and imprecision in […]
MsBehavior in Chelsea
In Chelsea checking out the West Chelsea Open Studios on Saturday, I stopped at ArtBridge Drawing Room to see “MsBehavior,” an exhibition featuring work by […]
Handmade, utopic, urgent and obsessive
I just landed in DC, so I probably won’t get to Airplane before “Facture” closes on Sunday, but the installation shots on their website look […]
Raphael Rubinstein revisits Provisional Painting
Thank you, Art in America, for posting “Provisional Painting Part 2: To Rest Lightly on the Earth,” Raphael Rubinstein’s eagerly anticipated update to “Provisional Painting,” […]
