An award-winning NYC blogazine, primarily about painting
Monday, February 2, 2026
Contributed by Leslie Wayne / For as long as I’ve known Suzanne Joelson – over 40 years now – she has pushed the limits of painting, much as I have tried to do. In what is now an abundantly expanded field, though, I have wondered whether we have much to push against anymore, which makes the endeavor all the more challenging.
Contributed by Adam Simon / The modus operandi behind much of Barbara Friedman’s work, including her current exhibition “All Rude and Lumpy Matter” at Frosch & Co., has a name, pareidolia, which refers to finding images within abstraction. Think of the age-old pastime of finding faces in clouds.
