Gretchen Bennett explores the pop-culture iconography of the Seattle area through drawings of the band Nirvana and its lead singer Kurt Cobain. Bennett’s source materials include YouTube video footage and Gus Van Sant’s film, “Last Days.” In The Stranger, Jen Graves writes that everything Bennett makes is a sort of […]
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Short story: Rescue Center [Elizabeth Scheer]
Contributed by Elizabeth Scheer / I first discovered the Rescue Center while walking idly on... -
Confrontational color at Analog Diary
Contributed by Clare Gemima / Analog Diary’s group exhibition “Chromazones” – curated by Derek Eller,... -
Ed Ruscha’s retro spective
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / The work of the Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha is... -
Jo Baer: Space, position, and light
Contributed by David Carrier / Five smallish early Jo Baer paintings are on display in... -
Studio visit: Charles Clough’s audacious return to sculpture
Contributed by Jack Edson / A trip to Charles Clough’s studio, situated with his gallery... -
Yellow Chair Salon Introduces Symposia!
As the Yellow Chair Salon starts its fourth year, we are excited to introduce Symposia!,... -
Leigh Behnke’s fluid sense of time
Contributed by Riad Miah / What’s a ghostly-looking ship doing in the city? Probably the... -
Part 2: On “negative criticism”
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / It’s tempting to lament the demise of the takedown review.... -
Hudson Valley Selected Gallery Guide: September, 2023
Don't miss the last few days to see "The Summer Disaster Show," a big group... -
The real deal: James Brooks reconsidered
Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / “A Painting is a Real Thing,” the Parrish Museum’s current... -
Nola Zirin and the march of abstraction
Contributed by Michael Brennan / It has sometimes been assumed that abstraction is unlimited in... -
Selected Paintings from SPRING/BREAK NYC 2023
Contributed by Fay Sanders and Bob Szyantyr / In a shift befitting this year’s theme,...
Two Coats Obituaries
- Bushwick’s Tim Gowan August 12, 2023Even though making art is often an experience that happens in the solitude of one's studio, it rarely occurs in a vacuum. Artists rely on each other for support, reinforcement, inspiration, and challenge, forming communities to avoid feeling like fish out of water in this world. Tim Gowan was one of those artists who cherished […]
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Latest post, link in profile / Ed Ruscha’s retro spective / Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / The work of the Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha is often referred to as a West Coast version of Pop Art. The implication, of course, is that since it didn’t come out of New York, it must be inferior. His retrospective “Now Then,” his first at the Museum of Modern Art and first in New York since 1983, contains over 200 works from 1958 to the present…. Despite its outward similarity to conceptual art and New York Pop Art, Ruscha’s work feels decidedly different. Link in profile
Image: Ed Ruscha, The Los Angeles County Museum on Fire, 1965-68, oil on canvas, 135.89 x 339.09 cm
@edruschaofficial @themuseumofmodernart @lauriefendrich #edruscha #moma #lauriefendrich
New post, link in profile / Selected Paintings from SPRING/BREAK NYC 2023 / Contributed by Fay Sanders and Bob Szyantyr / In a shift befitting this year’s theme, !WILD CARD!, the Spring/Break Art Show departs from its past trajectory of more-and-bigger spectacle, year after year. Building on the “Secret Show” of this past spring, which returned to the Old School where the fair began, the organizers asked artists for this year’s show at 625 Madison to revisit past themes with a mix of nostalgia, homage, and cheekiness. Link in profile
Image: Jackson Hill (detail) / Booth 1018 “Backyards” curated by Todd Cramer. Featuring artists Todd Cramer + Jackson Hill + Guillermo Amat. Theme: Fact and Fiction (2019)
#springbreakartshow #springbreakartshow2023 @faysanders_ @blahbert @springbreakartshow @ambrekelly @andrewgoriandfriends @jacksonhillart @debbikenote
When I got the email from @alexandregallery yesterday, announcing that they were presenting a clutch of #lorenmaciver paintings @independent_hq, I scrambled for a press ticket to the preview so I could see the work one more time before it passed into private hands. The fair, located on the waterfront next to the Staten Island Ferry, was nothing if not elegant, and the MacIvers didn’t disappoint. Here are details of a MacIver and some other pieces that caught my eye. Then I walked over to Pier 11 and took the ferry back to the studio in Dumbo. Great morning 💥Sorry not to have images of the Sigmar Polke photographs — knockout @sieshoeke — Kenwyn Critchlow paintings @dianerosenstein, the Mary Dill Henry paintings and notes @hauserwirth, Emilio Cruz @corbettvsdempsey, and others. If you can’t make it to the fair, go look them up. Tags to come, but feel free to identify in the comments.
#independent20thcentury #painting #lorenmaciver #alexandregallery
Latest post, link in profile / Rescue Center [Elizabeth Scheer] / I first discovered the Rescue Center while walking idly on the Upper West Side. I rang the bell and then stood in the atrium. A person came to the door and wrote my name on a clipboard. “You’ll be added to our mailing list,” they said. I cannot recall if that individual was a man or a woman. Gender, race and so forth were not of consequence in such a place. The humans formed, in aggregate, a giant hand filled with seeds…. Link in profile
#fiction #elizabethscheer #lizscheer @liz__scheer
Latest post, link in profile / Confrontational color at Analog Diary / Contributed by Clare Gemima / Analog Diary’s group exhibition “Chromazones” – curated by Derek Eller, Abby Messitte, Katharine Overgaard and Franklin Parrasch – features a wide, intergenerational array of artists. Many works, including Clare Grill’s Plant, Pam Glick’s Cat, Dog, Car, Sky, and Yukine Yanagi’s Chrysalis, are traditional oil paintings. Others utilize unconventional materials, such as glitter, which is found in Chris Martin’s Fireflies, or gemstones, which appear in Alteronce Gumby’s I can’t stop thinking about love. And there are ceramic sculptures, like Peter Shire’s Scozzese and Ken Price’s Iggy. The show confronts viewers with abundant color. While that may be a narrow parameter, here it provides insight into each artist’s approach to material and method of application. Link in profile.
Images:
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein. No. 535, 1957. Oil on masonite. 24 x 24 inches
Sylvia Snowden. Minnie’s Stitch, 1990, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 66 x 54 inches
@analogdiary.art @claregemima #analogdiary #claregemima #colorfulpainting #summergroupshow #hudsonvalley #hvartgallery
Spring/Break, part 2. Miscellaneous objects and installations. Now back at the studio drinking ice coffee with my feet up. Tags to come, but feel free to identify and tag artists and curators in the comments. #springbreakartshow2023 @springbreakartshow
Spring \Break Art Show, where every picture, no matter how colorful, seems to have a grim story to tell. Lots of tarot. A return to punk. Bio anxiety. Plenty of kitsch. It’s OK, though. @drlisalevysp says so 🙂 Details and tags to come, but feel free to identify images in the comments. #wildcard #springbreakartshow2023 #mosaicartspacelongislandcity #dreamsymbolism #contemporarymedievalart #newpreraphaelites
Latest post, link in profile / NYC Selected Gallery Guide: September, 2023 / Here are a few shows that stand out this month: Joan Snitzer at AIR in Brooklyn, Rebecca Morris at Bortolami, Leslie Smith III at Chart, Wade Guyton at Mathew Marks, Charline von Heyl at Petzel, and Sam Gilliam, Julian Schnabel, and Jules de Balincourt solos at Pace. We also got an announcement for a show of new Cady Noland sculptures at Gagosian in the 871 Park Avenue space. Is this a prank, we wondered (as we posted the news immediately on social media). A bunch of art fairs are in town this month, including the indefatigable Spring/Break Art Show. Art fair addresses, links, and dates are all posted at the end of the gallery listings. Summer’s over everyone — welcome back. Link in profile
Images
The Painting Center: Sue Havens, Untitled (Round XXXX), 2023, Acrylic on 150 lb. paper, 22” x 30” @thepaintingcenter
Amos Enos Gallery: Elena Barenghi, The Golden Rule #2, acrylic on wood board, 18 x 24 inches @amosenogallery
Tappeto Volante Projects: Jenny Kanzler, Cicada Purse, 2023, Oil on panel, 4 × 6 inches
@tvprojects.bk
@artsmith3 @____chart____ @joansnitzer @airgallery @wadeguyton @matthewmarksgallery @nolandcady @gagosian @julesdebalincourt @pacegallery
