New York-based painter Louise Belcourt recently returned from a quiet summer in the country, where she completed new work, which is on view through December 12 at the Locks Gallery in Philadelphia. The series comprises collages on paper made with painted gouache shapes, infusing the curvy hard-edge simplicity of Matisse […]
Tag: Ideas and Influences
Ideas and Influences: Björn Meyer-Ebrecht
In his second solo show at Matteawan Gallery, on view through Sunday, November 5, Brooklyn artist Björn Meyer-Ebrecht (b. Hamburg, Germany) presents abstract drawings and a site-specific installation that expand his ongoing interest in the basic elements of architecture. Readers may remember the unorthodox exhibitions Meyer-Ebrecht organized during Bushwick Open Studios […]
Ideas and Influences: Erika Ranee
Several years ago, Two Coats of Paint encountered Erika Ranee‘s paintings during an open studio event at the Marie Sharpe Walsh Foundation. Soaked with vibrant color, her large-scale abstractions were exuberant conglomerations of snippets culled from the overlooked details of everyday life. On the occasion of her “Zip-A-Dee-A,” a solo […]
Ideas and Influences: Brece Honeycutt
Artist and citizen naturalist�Brece Honeycutt�lives in Massachusetts, on a colonial farmhouse in�the foothills of the Berkshire mountains.�Fascinated�with�the history of her home and the surrounding land, she�reads handwritten�antique diaries�at�the�local�library,�gathers�old textiles,�and creates�natural dyes from the plants she collects�on her morning walks.�During her walks, she closely observes changes to the landscape, making notes […]
Ideas and Influences: Stephen Truax
Ever since I’ve known artist-writer-curator Stephen Truax he has been in a state of what curator Anne Luther calls “hopeful doubt,” perpetually examining what painting and art might be in the 21st century. On the occasion of “How Will I Know,” his first NYC solo show, Two Coats of Paint […]
Ideas and Influences: Adam Simon
Adam Simon could best be described as a conceptual painter. Based in Brooklyn, he has been painting and organizing community projects like Four Walls and the Fine Art Adoption Network for more than 25 years. Lately, though, he’s put community projects aside to work in the studio, where his ironically […]
10 ideas and influences: Joy Garnett
Joy Garnett is an artist and writer who, for the past ten years has served as the arts editor at Cultural Politics, a contemporary culture, politics and media journal published by Duke University Press. She also publishes the venerable art blog NEWSgrist. On the occasion of her solo exhibition of […]
Ideas and Influences: Mary Addison Hackett
I have followed Mary Addison Hackett’s blog Process since she left LA a few years ago and returned to Nashville where her mother was in the hospital. Unfortunately, as Hackett drove across country, she received word that her mother had died. Since then, Hackett has been dividing her time between […]
Ideas and Influences: Helen O’Leary
Helen O’Leary grew up in rural Ireland in the the 60s and 70s, where her mother’s philosophy was “if you can’t make it, you can’t have it.” In her 2010 Guggenheim application she wrote that this spirit of creativity and “making do” carries over into her work: Throughout my career, […]