Elizabeth Peyton’s paintings, based on photographs, can be read in chapters, each of which feature portraits of friends, family, personal heroes, and, of course, fleeting passions. In October, The New Museum is presenting Peyton’s first big museum survey, “Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton,” which will feature over 100 pieces made over […]
Tag: Karen Rosenberg
NY Times Art in Review: Danica Phelps and Ata Kwami
“Danica Phelps,” Zach Feuer, New York, NY. Through July 18. Karen Rosenberg: “For the last decade Danica Phelps has chronicled her personal and financial lives with an exhaustive system of lists and charts accompanied by diagrams of colored stripes. In this show, her fifth at the gallery, she clears the […]
Where the paintings are
“If you emerged from the Whitney Biennial wondering where all the painting went, don�t despair,” Karen Rosenberg informs us in the NY Times this morning. “An alternative view of the state of contemporary art can be found at the National Academy�s annual exhibition. This year�s show is a non-member affair […]
NY Times Art in Review: Nelson, Mitchell, Rauch
“Dona Nelson: In Situ, Paintings, 1973-Present,” Thomas Erben, New York, NY. Through May 31. Roberta Smith: “There are many ways a New York museum could avoid merely validating the art market; one would be to surprise us all and give the New York painter Dona Nelson a survey. She has […]
NY Times Art in Review: Kannemeyer, Quabeck, Bessone, Nilsson, Dodge
“Anton Kannemeyer: The Haunt of Fears,” Jack Shainman, New York, NY. Through May 17. Ken Johnson: “A Tintin-style painting for a Bittercomix cover shows a happy white man on safari in an antique car driven by a black servant. The car is filled with boxes labeled Texaco and Halliburton. As […]
NY Times Art in Review: Substraction, Dieter Roth
“Substraction,” curated by Nicola Vassell. Deitch Projects, New York, NY. Through May 24. Artist include Kristin Baker, Dan Colen, Rosson Crow, Elizabeth Neel, Sterling Ruby, Aaron Young. Roberta Smith: “The idea is that the artists in this show fuse the scale, painterliness and frequent performance aspects of postwar abstraction with […]
“Someone is going to come �round here and buy all my paintings at one time for $40,000.”
Earl Cunningham (1893 – 1977), a prolific landscape artist who worked from memory, is considered a “folk modernist” whose work conveys some of the complex meanings about the nature of American life. In the NYTimes, Karen Rosenberg writes that Cunningham’s style may have been childlike, but he was hardly na�ve. […]
Readymade color at MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art’s “Color Chart”explores what happens when contemporary artists assign color decisions to chance, readymade source, or arbitrary system. Midway through the twentieth century, long-held convictions regarding the spiritual truth or scientific validity of particular colors gave way to an excitement about color as a mass-produced and […]
NYTimes Art in Review: Martin, Bradford, Poons
“Chris Martin,” (click through for good set of images) Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY. Through March 1. Roberta Smith: “It makes sense that Mr. Martin had his first solo show in 1988. Although he rightfully counts the painters Alfred Jensen and Forrest Bess among his inspirations, his style might […]
PaintersNYC returns with Karen Kilimnik
After a six week respite, a new painter has been forced to walk the plank at the unsparing art-crit blog PaintersNYC. Karen Kilimnik, whose paintings are on view at 303 Gallery, NYC, through February 23, is this week’s chum. According to the press release for the show, her paintings and […]
