Contributed by Sharon Butler / Farley Aguilar�s paintings, on view at Lyles & King, are based on vintage photographs of 1920s and �30s seaside beauty […]
Tag: figurative
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Call it soulfulness
Contributed by Matt Mitchell / Reviewers have compulsively apprehended Lynette Yiadom-Boakye�s loving images of dark-skinned people as manifestations of black identity politics, despite the artist�s insistence that […]
Elena Sisto: A new kind of freedom
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Elena Sisto�s new paintings, on view at Bookstein Projects through October 27, focus smartly on hair. Lively thick brushstrokes snake […]
Soberly upbeat: Summer shows at DC Moore
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Summer is irrevocably a time for diversion and good cheer, but how much escapism can be indulged in good conscience is relative […]
Karin Campbell�s grins and grimaces
Karin Campbell�s glistening paintings of disjointed mouths, eyes, and teeth hide in plain site. Both densely layered and sparse, her recent abstract canvases are cartoonish takes on […]
Haley Josephs talks to Austin Lee about her new paintings
Brooklyn-based painter Haley Josephs makes enigmatic paintings of powerful, archetypal women, often engaged in private activities or rituals that can be both disturbing and absurd. Painted on black canvases, her […]
Robin Lowe�s exquisitely eerie paintings
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / It goes almost without saying that paintings of people need to bring more to the table than faithful visual representations of […]
Anything but random: Jamian Juliano-Villani
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Last week the Visiting Artist Lecture Series kicked off at Parsons� Kellen Auditorium with a lecture by Jamian Juliano-Villani, a […]
Studio Visit: James Rauchman
Contributed by Sharon Butler / We were born several years apart, but James Rauchman and I have the same severe late-February birthday. Babies born in the northeast […]
Jay Senetchko: A tale of two empires
Contributed by Dion Kliner / Looking from painting to painting at “The Course of a Distant Empire,” Jay Senetchko’s fine solo exhibition at Winsor Gallery […]
Studio visit with Peter Schenck
Contributed by Julia Gray / Painter Peter Schenck combines hard-edge abstraction with gestural brushwork and vivid color to create densely patterned scenes that capture a […]
Lunchtime dystopia: CON-Figuration at Postmasters
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Not far from the courthouse, wandering jurors like myself might happen upon Postmasters Gallery on Franklin Street during the mandated […]
New subjectivity: Figurative painting at Pratt Manhattan Gallery
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In a lively group show of large canvases at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery, curator Jason Stopa makes a strong case […]
