Reviews
Merlin James at Sikkema Jenkins
Hyperallergic
John Yau reviews Merlin James: Paintings For Persons at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., on view through November 12, 2016. Yau writes that James “gets at all sorts of feelings without ever locking them into a narrative. He doesn’t tell us how to read his paintings. He gives us that responsibility and, in that regard, he is […]
McArthur Binion @ Kavi Gupta
New City Art
Elizabeth Lalley reviews McArthur Binion: Seasons at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, on view through November 22, 2016. Lalley writes: “In ‘Seasons,’ Binion’s layered marks form a series of grids. The physicality and repetition of the artist’s cross-hatching process results in pieces that are deceptively uniform from a distance, but upon closer inspection, are filled with […]
Paul Feiler @ Jessica Carlisle
Studio International
Angeria Rigamonti di Cutó reviews works by Paul Feiler recently on view at Jessica Carlisle Gallery, London. Rigamonti Di Cutó writes: “As with other artists working in a constructivist-concrete vein, Feiler’s arrangements of rational, geometric forms yield curiously otherworldly sensations and suggest the tension between what the eye perceives and the brain imagines.”
Helene Appel @ P420
Ruminations
Geoff Hands reviews Helene Appel: Washing up at P420, Bologna, on view through November 12, 2016. Hands writes: “[Appel] may have painted the images from life, eidetic memory or from reproductions (e.g. a photographic image). We do not know (without asking her) and have the option of constructing our own mini-histories for the making and […]
Agnes Martin: A Resolutely Solitary Endeavor
Two Coats of Paint
Sharon Butler blogs about the Agnes Martin retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, on view through January 11, 2017. Butler writes: “Martin’s austere paintings, with neutral palette and delicate line, are beautifully installed in the Guggenheim’s warm white ramp. Unlike other artists, Martin didn’t find her voice until she was well past forty and […]
Leslie Roberts: FYEO @ Minus Space
James Kalm Report
James Kalm visits the exhibition Leslie Roberts: FYEO at Minus Space, New York, and talks with the artist about her work. The show is on view through October 29, 2016. Kalm notes: “Making works on panel created through a process of textual coding and graphic design, Roberts has created one of the most inventive and […]
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry @ the Met Breuer
Artnet News
Christian Viveros-Fauné reviews Kerry James Marshall: Mastry at the Met Breuer, New York, on view through January 29, 2017. Viveros-Fauné writes: “Self-portraiture, religious painting, history painting, landscapes, nudes, fêtes champêtres, abstraction and other tropes have all been mobilized by [Kerry James Marshall] to achieve his lofty artistic goal of painterly self-representation. But rather than aspire […]
Sean Scully @ Mnuchin
artcritical
David Rhodes reviews Sean Scully: The Eighties recently on view at Mnuchin Gallery, New York. Rhodes writes: “Longing, melancholy and urgency all prevail in these paintings. This denies a place for complacency and evinces a drive and focus that both address art-historical connections, and the contemporary world vis-à-vis the particularity of Scully’s own experience, be it emotional […]
Don Voisine’s Universe of Shapes
Hyperallergic
John Yau reviews Don Voisine: X/V at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine, on view through October 28, 2016. Yau writes: “Voisine’s pieces demand attention; you need to study them up close and from a distance to fully appreciate the illusions the artist creates by way of a handful of shapes and a […]
Rosalyn Drexler: Varieties of Reclamation
Art in America
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 […]
Carmen Herrera: A Passionate Visual Idiom
artcritical
David Carrier reviews Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight at the Whitney Museum of American Art, on view through January 2, 2017. Carrier concludes: “… because this relatively small exhibition, which certainly doesn’t present her entire career, or even, so I imagine, identify her starting point, offers such a limited selection of her art, it’s impossible […]
Gregory Amenoff: Eclectic Mysticism Rooted in Modernism
Hyperallergic
John Goodrich reviews Gregory Amenoff: New Paintings at Alexandre Gallery, New York, on view through October 29, 2016. Goodrich writes: “While the natural landscape, exotic and enveloping, underpins all of Amenoff’s scenes, they depart from boiler-plate realism by several routes. A number of especially romantic paintings are notable for their brushy, atmospheric depths; they depict more-or-less […]
Julie Mehretu: Can Social Abstraction Succeed?
Art F City
Paddy Johnson reviews Julie Mehretu: Hoodnyx, Voodoo and Stelae at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, on view through October 29, 2016. Johnson writes: “Without the titles, there’s no way to identify the grim events that inspire [Mehretu’s] work. The paintings add little to a path of abstract artist well trodden by now. With them, the mass […]
Celia Paul @ Victoria Miro
Studio International
Joe Lloyd reviews Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia at Victoria Miro Mayfair, London, on view through October 29, 2016. Lloyd writes: “Three self-portraits, a painting of her sister, a depiction of a room, and a seascape sequence: these are the components that combine to form the English painter Celia Paul’s Desdemona for Hilton […]
Zak Prekop @ Shane Campbell
New City Art
Chris Miller reviews paintings by Zak Prekop at Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, on view through October 22, 2016. Miller writes: “Some works seem to be exploding; others collect the shrapnel that follows. A few feel quiet and mysterious, especially when patterns have been painted, or glued, on the reverse, so images emerge dimly from the back… […]
Daubigny: Inspiring Impressionism
Apollo Magazine
Sam Kitchener reviews the recent exhibition Inspiring Impressionism: Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh at the Scottish National Gallery. Kitchener writes: “Just how far Daubigny influenced Monet and vice versa is left open to interpretation here. But a startling use, or rather perception, of colour, had long been a feature of Daubigny’s work… Van Gogh’s work during […]
Joan Semmel: A Woman’s Body
Two Coats of Paint
Sharon Butler blogs about Joan Semmel: New Work at Alexander Gray Associates, New York, on view through October 15, 2016. Butler writes: “Semmel’s lively, lyrical new paintings … depict fragmented sections of the aging female body, often from angles that can only be seen by women themselves. The gloriously large-scale nudes, all self portraits and […]
Hearne Pardee @ Bowery Gallery
On View At
John Goodrich reviews a recent exhibition of works by Hearne Pardee at Bowery Gallery, New York. Goodrich writes: “When artists share their process, they usually call our attention to particularly evocative materials and techniques. Pardee, however, focuses on a different kind of process, one that’s arguably even more fundamental to visual experience: the challenges of […]
Gregory Amenoff: Mind’s Eye
New York Sun Arts
Xico Greenwald reviews Gregory Amenoff: New Paintings at Alexandre Gallery, New York, on view through October 29, 2016. Greenwald writes that Amenoff’s “landscape-based abstractions teeming with organic shapes that suggest trees, caves, plant cells, soil, sky and water. But the forms here are not based on careful observation of the natural world. Rather, these are […]
Ed Moses @ Albertz Benda
Steven Alexander Journal
Steven Alexander blogs about Ed Moses: Painting as Process at Albertz Benda, New York, on view through October 15, 2016. Alexander writes: “Central to Moses’ work is the notion of constructing a painting through a process of interacting with materials, of setting a process in motion, and accepting the results… Bolstered by a large selection of […]