Contributed by Adam Simon / The five abstract paintings in Medrie MacPhee’s “The Repair,” at Tibor de Nagy, have just enough indications of figure/ground and observed reality to evoke landscape, interior space, aerial view, blueprint. What also connects these paintings to the physical world, as we perceive it, are minor shifts of line, contour, or color that activate the surface and keep the paintings from being flat. While the paintings are large, all but one measuring 64 x 84 inches, somehow the small gallery doesn’t feel crowded.
Tag: Lee Krasner
Book report: Mary Gabriel’s Ninth Street Women
Contributed by Brece Honeycutt and Anne Lindberg / Mary Gabriel’s Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler […]
Congratulations to all the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipients!
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, now starting its 25th year of grant-making, has announced 125 grants totaling $2,093,140 to individual artists and arts organizations for fiscal 2008-09 […]
New obsession: Smithsonian’s Pollock and Krasner archive now online
Portraits of lee Krasner by Maurice Berezov, circa 1942, 1956. Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock at the beach, circa 1950 In 2006 the Smithsonian Archives […]
Neo-Maternalism: Contemporary artists’ approach to motherhood
The December/January issue of The Brooklyn Rail is online, so go check out my article about contemporary artists’ approach to motherhood. I mean, come on, […]
Out on the Island: Knoebel, Rivers and Krasner
“Imi Knoebel: Knife Cuts,” Dan Flavin Institute, Bridgehampton, NY. Through October 12. Ben Genocchio reports in the NYTimes that Dia is featuring two Imi Knoebel […]




















