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Thursday, August 20, 2026
Contributed by Sharon Butler / On August 8, I visited Marion Wilson in Vineyard Haven at The Floating Gallery – a studio and gallery she created on a wooden boatbuilder’s mini-barge – to talk about the gallery project and the current show, “Catastrophe,’ on view through August 15. Louis Block, who has work in the show, joined us to talk about his painting.
On the occasion of their exhibition, “Artist Panel,” at Ptolemy, Two Coats of Paint invited Michele Araujo, Larry Greenberg, and Adam Simon to share part of their conversation with gallery owner Pat Reynolds.The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity, but the full conversation will be playing at the gallery through March 15, 2025.
On the occasion of “Slip,” Olivia Baldwin and Barbara Owen’s two-person exhibition at OVERLAP, an interesting artist-run space in Newport, RI, Two Coats of Paint invited the artists to contribute a conversation about their work. Each is engaged with personal history, found materials, and the emotional resonance of color. For both Baldwin and Owen, meaning emerges primarily through the process of making.
Posted in celebration of “Eyes on the City: Drawings by Susanna Heller and Karlis Rekevics,” an exhibition curated by Karen Wilkin, at the New York Studio School, and the 2023 publication of Susanna Heller, Beyond Pain: The Last Drawings.
Contributed by Sharon Butler / I went to visit Fran Shalom’s studio in Jersey City on the occasion of her first solo museum show, “Duck/Rabbit” at the Hunterdon in Clinton, New Jersey. Continuing a conversation we’d started at “Groping For the Elephant,” Shalom’s 2021 solo show at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Chelsea., we discussed surface, shape, ambiguity, and the confidence painters develop over time. “Duck/Rabbit” was curated by Mary Birmingham and opens on October 2.
Contributed by Caroline Wells Chandler/ I met Brandi Twilley back in 2008 when we started graduate school together at Yale. Both Southerners and eager for […]
Contributed by Patrick Neal / The painter Eric Wolf is someone I have known since we met as students at Skowhegan School of Art in […]
Contributed by Sangram Majumdar / In 2015 Susanna Coffey saw �In the Studio: Paintings,� an exhibition of canvases from the 1600s to the present that […]
Contributed by Jason Andrew / Lucy Mink was the first artist I came to know solely through Facebook. She didn�t live in Brooklyn but in rural Contoocook, […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / British painter Rachel Howard is in town this month, presenting “L�appel du vide,� her first New York solo show,�at Blain|Southern. […]
Contributed by Emma Stolarski / I spotted New York-based Japanese artist Sayaka Maruyama?s memorandom 0 by chance on the growing art book collection of my […]
Contributed by Joshua Abelow / “Abby’s Room” is a show at Freddy in Harris, New York, featuring Abby Lloyd’s new sculptures and childhood drawings by her […]
Contributed by Giovanni Garcia-Fenech / Initially I resisted Instagram, thinking of it dismissively as a repository of selfies, sunsets, and celebrities, but, soured by Facebook and […]
Contributed by Linn�a Borgo /�On a hot Brooklyn afternoon, Emma Soucek and I met at Safe Gallery to discuss her two-person show with the late […]
Contributed by Jennifer Coates / I met Caroline Wells Chandler when he was an MFA student at Yale, and we immediately connected in a lunatic […]
Contributed by Sangram Majumdar / Since I first visited Esteban Cabeza de Baca‘s studio when he was enrolled in Columbia�s MFA Program, his work has evolved, but his restlessness and unwillingness […]
Brooklyn artist Beth Dary thinks about the individual bubbles in which we all live. She was settled in a new house in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit, and […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / While I was a Visiting Artist at the Vermont Studio Center earlier this month, I met Lisa McCleary, an Australian-Irish artist who […]
Contributed by Julia Mont� / After “Night Feeding”, Sarah Slappey�s first solo exhibition in NYC at Crush Curatorial, I caught up with her to discuss her […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / I met Robert Yoder at a fair in Miami a few years back, and, since we have a similar aesthetic, he […]
