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.
Tag: Mira Schor
Mira Schor: Insistently personal
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Mira Schors galvanizingly insistent new paintings continue her exploration of self and the disembodied mind. Many painters traffic in purposeful ambiguity, using metaphor and abstraction to leave meaning-making for the viewer. Schors work, however, is not mysterious or enigmatic: her intention is to tell us […]
Meet the 2019 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program recipients
This year the 17 artists who get free studio space in DUMBO were selected by jurors Ellen Altfest, Phong Bui, Deborah Kass, Philip Pearlstein, and Daniel Turner from (gasp) 1700 applicants. As usual, the residency period will last from September 2019 through August 2020, with an open studios weekend to […]
Mira Schor casts a spell
Contributed by Heike Moras / A strand of melancholic stillness runs through each of Mira Schor�s early Californian paintings, on view at Lyles & King through May 19. Done roughly around the time the artist spent at Cal Arts in the early 1970s and heavily influenced by her work with the fabled […]
Tworkov’s first comprehensive NYC survey opens this week
Jack Tworkov in his Provincetown studio. Photo by � Arnold Newman, for an article written by Robert Hatch, “At The Tip Of Cape Cod,” July 1961 issue of Horizon.Via the Provincetown Artist Registry. The UBS Art Gallery presents New York City�s first comprehensive survey of the work of American painter […]
Painter Mira Schor edits a collection of Jack Tworkov’s writing
I wrote another guest post for Art21 last week about Jack Tworkov’s new collection of writing. I’m just getting around to posting it on Two Coats. Sorry for the delay. Here’s an excerpt. “Owing to its timeless insights about artmaking and life, art teachers traditionally assign Ashcan School painter Robert […]
Alice Neel at the Zwirners
David Zwirner has two concurrent exhibitions of Alice Neel�s work, “Alice Neel: Selected Works” at the Chelsea branch, and “Alice Neel: Nudes of the 1930s” uptown at Zwirner & Wirth. According to Zwirner, who now represents her estate with a couple other galleries, Neel (1900-1984) is one of the most […]
Suddenly, Mira Schor
For the April issue of The Brooklyn Rail, which is probably already in the racks and should go online shortly, I wrote about a show at Momenta Art called “The Mood Back Home.” The show, organized by Leslie Brack and Suzy Spence, was inspired by the 1972 feminist art project, […]
