Art in America

Ewelina Bochenska @ The Fortnight Institute
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Elizabeth Buhe reviews Ewelina Bochenska: A Hole Was Placed in the Sky and Sealed with Water recently on view at The Fortnight Institute. Buhe writes that the show “featured nearly thirty jewellike oil paintings—most around eight by ten inches, though two could fit in the palm of your hand—that seemed to transform Fortnight Institute into a site […]

Laura Owens: Moving Targets
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Nancy Princenthal reviews a mid-career retrospective of Laura Owens’ work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, on view through February 4, 2018. Princenthal writes: “What critics offer often in defense of abstract painting amounts to proclaiming its unique sincerity—the argument is that good painting is, perhaps singularly, unironic in its quest for transcendent […]

Thomas Trosch @ Fredericks & Freiser
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Eric Sutphin reviews the recent exhibition Thomas Trosch: Paintings: New And Old at Fredericks & Freiser, New York. Sutphin writes: “Trosch has mastered the art of suggestion: one gets a sense of the ages and affects of the figures through dashes and globs of paint. He accomplishes the difficult task of marrying subject matter and […]

Florine Stettheimer: Rococo Subversive
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Blog post featuring Linda Nochlin’s 1980 article re-published on the occasion of Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry, on view at The Jewish Museum, New York, through September 24, 2017. Nochlin writes: “… one might well raise some questions about conventional notions of an art of social concern itself, especially as these have recently been articulated in […]

David Reed: Poems Without Words
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Raphael Rubinstein reviews Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975 on view through May 21, 2017 at 356 S. Mission Rd, Los Angeles, California (previously on view at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University and Gagosian Gallery, New York). Rubinstein writes: “I came out of ‘Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975’ at Gagosian, where I saw this exhibition, thinking that […]

Inside Out: Henry Taylor’s Painting
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Tatiana Istomina profiles painter Henry Taylor whose work is included in the The 2017 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, on view through June 11, 2017. Istomina begins: “Henry Taylor’s painting has often been discussed in the context of outsider art not only because of his vivid and somewhat reductive figuration, […]

Beverly Fishman: The Drug of Abstraction
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Jason Stopa interviews painter Beverly Fishman on the occasion of her show DOSE, curated by Nick Cave, at the CUE Art Foundation, New York, on view through April 5, 2017. Fishman comments: “I believe that it’s important that the viewer know my content. That’s why I think my titles are significant, because they help to […]

Lee Lozano @ KARMA
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Eric Sutphin reviews a recent exhibition of paintings by Lee Lozano: c. 1962 at KARMA, New York. Sutphin writes: “The recent exhibition at Karma offered an important and illuminating look at Lozano’s rarely seen early work, from around 1962 … The paintings here (all untitled) can be read as studies made on the path toward […]

Mimi Gross: In Her World
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Dan Nadel profiles painter Mimi Gross who designed the sets and costumes for Douglas Dunn + Dancers: Antipodes at Danspace Project, New York, February 2–4, 2017. Nadel writes: “Gross told me that she is guided by a ‘fanaticism for Titian,’ which is to say, she builds compositions from planes of color. No matter how casual, […]

Before Realism: Valentin de Boulogne & the Brothers Le Nain
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Richard Neer writes: “Valentin [de Boulogne] … was … a leading exponent of a style of painting that Caravaggio had pioneered a generation earlier: shadowy, dramatically lit scenes drawn directly from life that pushed the boundaries of good taste through a commitment to verisimilitude and déclassé subject matter. With his death, that Caravaggesque tradition lost […]

Ginny Casey @ Half Gallery
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Eric Sutphin reviews a recent exhibition of works by Ginny Casey at Half Gallery, New York. Sutphin writes: “Casey synthesizes the influences of painters ranging from Milton Avery to Morandi to Guston in wholly original paintings that cast a universe of specific objects (invented or real) in scenes that celebrate play and creative mischief… Casey […]

Etal Adnan: The Weight of the World
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Elizabeth Fullerton reviews the recent exhibition Etal Adnan: The Weight of the World at the Serpentine Gallery, London. Fullerton writes: “Nature and war thread like twin strands through the multifaceted practice of this artist, who is also a poet, writer, and activist … while her vibrant visual output is largely inspired by nature, much of […]

Rosalyn Drexler: Varieties of Reclamation
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Raphael Rubinstein reviews Who Does She Think She Is? a retrospective of works by Rosalyn Drexler, recently on view at the Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum. Rubinstein writes : “Although she never ceased to rely on preexisting images, Drexler described to [interviews Roberta] Fallon sometimes feeling ‘very guilty’ about building her paintings from ‘something not […]

Rochelle Feinstein: The Big Picture
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Faye Hirsch reviews the recent exhibition Rochelle Feinstein: I Made a Terrible Mistake at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. The show will be on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts from June 27 – September 22, 2018. Hirsch begins: “Rochelle Feinstein is tough on painting while remaining a true believer. Work by […]

Rubens Ghenov @ Morgan Lehman
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Julian Kreimer reviews the recent exhibition Rubens Ghenov: Accoutrements in Marwa, an Interlude in Sliver at Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York. Kreimer writes: “Ghenov has absorbed the poet’s mantra that the fewer elements in a work, the more each of them matters… [his] ability to balance a powerful sense of nostalgia with an intensely slippery […]