Tag: Edvard Munch

Solo Shows

The visual poetics of Alison Hall and Pete Schulte

Contributed by Jacob Cartwright / There’s a quiet conversation happening on either side of the Grand Street subway stop between two artists who, measured as they are, have a lot to say to each other. To the west is Alison Hall’s “spirits (where the water tastes like wine)” at Kate Werble Gallery, to the east Pete Schulte’s “Neither-Nor Stone or Not Not-a-Rock” at McKenzie Fine Art. The more you look for correspondences the more you find, and the fact that their bodies of work are not overtly similar means that each stands to illuminate the other.

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Group Shows

Evolving horror at Management

Contributed by Patrick Bell / When the world stops making sense so does the body; the figure comes apart at the seams and becomes grotesque. “New Grotesque” at Management gathers 15 artists around this idea and the fact that the horror of the 2020s isn’t just lived but also streamed and thereby exaggerated and filtered. Where Bosch, Goya, and Ensor had war and plague of their own, a different kind of suffering is fed to us through the endless scroll. Management’s current show reflects the view that the grotesque has had to mutate to keep pace with the world. The distended, leaking forms here often make humans seem more like animals, machines, or meat than people.

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Out of Town Studio Visit

Torild Stray: Between Bergen and Brooklyn, circuitously

Contributed by Patrick Neal / This time of year in Norway, the sun sets around 10 o’clock at night and rises at 3 a.m., and the day shifts from misty drizzles of rain to clear, sunny skies. Whether in a city or further afield, the country’s natural topography is stunningly beautiful. Fjords, carved out by glaciers, are placid, meandering and surrounded by steep cliffs. Waterfalls cascade and zigzag down mountains, and everywhere are bright green meadows and deep, forested hills and valleys. It’s no surprise that the painter, Torild Stray mentions these climatic factors as influential to her work. As someone who has straddled dramatic atmospheric conditions, and has divided her time between North America and northern Europe, Stray has absorbed the intercontinental shifts and characteristics of different cultures.

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Artist's Notebook

Sharon’s Substack / April 1, 2026

Contributed by Sharon Butler / Reading Gary Garrels’ remembrance of Brice Marden in Artforum in 2023, I encountered a Rothko quote to the effect that paintings are about basic human emotions – tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. I was not inclined to think about my work in that way, so I spent some time reading about basic human emotions, which, in my placid New England family, were generally dismissed without much examination….

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Out of Town Solo Shows

Nicole Wittenberg’s vacationland

Contributed by Katy Crowe / Upon entering Fernberger Gallery, a welcome transplant from New York, the faint smell of oil paint introduces Nicole Wittenberg’s “Jumpin’ at the Woodside,” the gallery’s inaugural show in Los Angeles. The title references a Count Basie composition, and the work does have the freewheeling feel of jazz. 

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