Tag: Glenn Goldberg

Group Shows

Spring Projects’ epic subway series

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Most New Yorkers couldn’t live without the subway. It is their savior if occasionally their oppressor. They love it so much that they hate it when it lets them down, but the opprobrium is often oddly affectionate. Barroom arguments have fulminated and flourished over which subway line is worse – the F or the 7, the 2 or the L. Patronizing the subway can be a point of gritty cosmopolitan pride: real New Yorkers don’t use Uber. And it’s a great social equalizer, as reflected in Ralph Fasanella’s 1950 folk-art painting Subway Riders, now ensconced in the wall of 53rd Street/Fifth Avenue Station and as idealistic as ever. “Subway Riders” the group show is now up at Springs Projects. It keenly captures the subway’s pervasive, multivalent thrum through New York life with work by over 100 artists and a few eager amateurs (one is me).

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Conversation Solo Shows

Glenn Goldberg and Mary DeVincentis

Artist Glenn Goldberg sat down with painter Mary DeVincentis during her recent solo show at Tappeto Volante Projects to explore the connections between personal experience and artistic expression. Their conversation reveals an artist whose work emerges from a lifetime of witnessing — from childhood visits to a state hospital where her mother worked as an art therapist, to her journey through loss and spiritual questioning. They discuss her latest series — paintings of solitary women who inhabit liminal spaces between memory and projection. DeVincentis discusses how her recent discovery of aphantasia — the inability to form mental images — has shaped her simplified visual vocabulary. She also draws inspiration from mythological women punished for disobedience, reimagining them as empowered by their behavior.

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Ideas & Influences

Artist’s Notebook: Jim Condron

In addition to his regular practice of solitary drawing, painting, and sculpture, Jim Condron is working on a project that involves an array of other artists, writers, and thinkers. The pieces produced are on display in “Collected Things,” a solo exhibition at Art Cake, through June 17. On the occasion of this charming and poignant show, _Two Coats of Paint_ invited Condron to share some of the artists, objects, and ideas that inform his work. Here’s his list.

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