An award-winning NYC blogazine, primarily about painting
Thursday, March 12, 2026
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.
Artist Sue McNally, a 2015 Two Coats of Paint Resident Artist, lives in Newport, Rhode Island, where her recent work is on view at Overlap, a new artist-run space in the neighborhood. Overlap founder Susie Matthews, who has been making and showing her artwork in Rhode Island for over 25 years, wants the space to appeal to creative thinkers who live amid a bustling tourist trade that favors seascapes over more challenging propositions. To celebrate the opening of the gallery and Sue’s show, Two Coats of Paint invited her to share some of the ideas and influences that have helped shape her work over the years.
