Reviews
Abstracts @ Poem 88
ArtsATL
Rebecca Brantley reviews ABSTRACTS at Poem 88, Atlanta, on view through June 10, 2017. The show features works by Brendan Carroll, Ben Steele and Zuzka Vaclavik. “Each artist,” Brantley writes, “engages 20th-century traditions, albeit in markedly different ways.”
John Zurier @ Anglim Gilbert
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David M. Roth reviews John Zurier: Dust and Troubled Air at Anglim Gilbert, San Francisco, on view through June 10, 2017. Roth writes: “This sensation of looking at dense fields and then being drawn into irregularly shaped pools of light is unexpected, shocking even, because nothing in the quick-read indicates that possibility. I was also […]
Ridley Howard @ Marinaro Gallery
Arte Fuse
Kate Menard reviews Ridley Howard: Travel Pictures at Marinaro Gallery, New York, on view through June 18, 2017. Menard writes: “While loosely connected to specific locations, the figures in Howard’s Travel Pictures do not interact with their surroundings but seem isolated and caught up in their own private narratives. His meticulous attention to color and […]
Matisse in the Studio
ARTnews
Phyllis Tuchman reviews Matisse in the Studio at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on view through July 9, 2017. Tuchman writes: “Though he closely observed his subjects, [Matisse] generally rendered them with a twist depending on his interests of the moment. Has any other show in recent times made us so acutely aware of […]
Ginny Casey in Philadelphia
Two Coats of Paint
Becky Huff Hunter writes about the paintings of Ginny Casey, on view in the exhibition Ginny Casey & Jessi Reaves at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, through August 6, 2017. Hunter writes: “This impossible composition [of Moody Blue Studio, 2017], as well as those of the other ten paintings, is reminiscent of art school still […]
John Graham: Maverick Modernist
Hamptons Art Hub
James Croak reviews John Graham: Maverick Modernist at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY, on view through July 30, 2017. Croak writes: “Early Modernism in painting, loosely defined as artwork seeking an essentialism constructed between the late 19th century up until WWII, was an intellectual adventure of the first order, having its manifestation in […]
David Novros @ Paula Cooper
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David Rhodes reviews works by David Novros at Paula Cooper Gallery (through June 30). Rhodes writes: “Untitled (1975), and Untitled (Frog Altar) (1975) use right angles as pivotal compositional elements… Both the viewer and the painting are animated, provoking an experience like that of passing through a chapel or a cave, rather than analytically viewing […]
Object Permanence: William Bailey at the Century Club
Viewers are now free to roam exhibitions with both figurative and abstract associations, without ideological guilt. Bailey’s poetic equivocations invite this in peaceful contemplation.
The Vitality of the ‘Berlin Painter’
New York Review of Books
James Romm reviews The Berlin Painter and His World, on view at the Princeton University Art Museum through June 11, 2017. Romm writes: “The Berlin Painter began working at the end of the sixth century BC, when the red-figure technique of vase painting—in which black glaze fills the background, leaving silhouettes of unglazed red ceramic to […]
Painters’ Lives: Marguerite Loupe & Maurice Brianchon
Arte Fuse
Jonathan Goodman reviews Painters’ Lives: Marguerite Loupe and Maurice Brianchon at the Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Goodman writes: “Louppe and Brianchon may not have been painters of major insight, but their fine possession of craft made them practitioners of genuine realization. They helped maintain the general level of painting practice in France […]
Celia Reisman: A Moment Noticed
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Lev Feigin reviews Celia Reisman: A Moment Noticed at Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, on view through May 26, 2017. Feigin writes: “Only in ‘Echo Park Coral’ do we witness contact between two people. The couple at the lower end of the composition – we only see their heads and shoulders – face each other in […]
Julian Hatton’s Free Range Abstraction
Although resolutely abstract, Julian Hatton’s new paintings deliver the full, immersive effect of the landscape.
Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Mangold & David Novros
Hamptons Art Hub
Charles A. Riley II reviews three New York exhibitions: Ellsworth Kelly: Last Paintings and Plant Drawings at Matthew Marks Gallery (through June 24), Robert Mangold Paintings and Works on Paper 2013 – 2017 at Pace Gallery (through June 17), and works by David Novros at Paula Cooper Gallery (through June 30). Riley notes: “Touring this notably […]
Cynthia Daignault @ the Flag Art Foundation
Bomb Magazine
Ted Dodson reviews Cynthia Daignault: There is nothing I could say that I haven’t thought before, recently on view at the Flag Art Foundation, New York. Dodson writes that the show “collects three separate series of paintings. Together, they continue her signature conceptual methodology, expanding on previous considerations of viewership, representative painting, and existential feminism […]
Mercedes Matter @ Mark Borghi
Hyperallergic
Jennifer Samet reviews Mercedes Matter: A Survey: Paintings & Drawings from 1929 to 1998 at Mark Borghi Fine Art, New York, on view through May 26, 2017. Samet writes: “Matter’s insistence on the nude female body, and on still lifes of flowers, drapery, and skulls as the focus of observational painting — for herself and […]
Vanessa Bell @ Dulwich Picture Gallery
London Review of Books
Alice Spawls reviews Vanessa Bell: 1879-1941 at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, on view through June 4, 2017. Spawls writes: “Despite the obvious influence of Matisse on her work, the artist Bell often seems closest to in spirit is Bonnard. There is an affinity in their domestic playfulness, in the shimmer of marks and diffusive pinks […]
Joan Eardley: A Sense of Place
Studio International
Christiana Spens reviews Joan Eardley: A Sense of Place at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, on view through May 21, 2017. Spens writes: “By combining the freedom of abstract expressionism, along with the familiarity of local places, [Eardley] invoked a wild sublime in these Scottish scenes that remains unique and arresting… Eardley’s […]
Patrick Jones: No Pasaran
AbCrit
Len Green reviews Patrick Jones: No Pasaran recently on view at the PS45 Gallery, Exeter, March 10 – April 9, 2017. Green begins: “The exhibition “No Pasaran” represents a life-long artistic journey by Patrick Jones, a journey which illustrates how he and his work have been affected by artistic influences from America and Europe. The […]
Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry
James Kalm Report
James Kalm visits Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry at the Jewish Museum, New York, on view through September 4, 2017. Kalm notes: “Through her involvement in the art world Stettheimer came in contact with the most advanced members of the avant-garde who had flocked to New York, like Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia. Not having to […]
Philip Guston @ the Gallerie dell’Accademia
ARTnews
Sarah Douglas reviews Philip Guston and The Poets at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, on view through September 3, 2017. Douglas writes that “the show, curated by Guston scholar Kosme de Baranano, is built–somewhat loosely–around Guston’s reading of and relationships with poets. There are the whimsical works on paper he made to illustrate his wife Musa […]