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Adrian Ghenie @ Pace
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Roman Kalinovski reviews a recent exhibition of works by Adrian Ghenie at Pace Gallery, New York. Kalinovski writes: “Ghenie has become, for one reason or another, the figurehead of the Cluj school of figurative painters. A decade ago, he captivated the art world with bleak images of life under Ceaușescu during the waning days of […]
Postwar: A Revisionist Vision
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David Carrier reviews Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945–1965 at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, on view through March 26, 2017. Carrier concludes: “This powerful exhibition changes permanently your sense of the history of postwar art. It demonstrates that it is now possible to present a world art history in which the […]
John McLaughlin: The Marvelous Void
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Joan Boykoff Baron and Reuben M. Baron review two exhibitions: John McLaughlin Paintings: Total Abstraction at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (through April 16) and John McLaughlin: Marvelous Void at Van Doren Waxter, New York (closed). The reviewers write: “[McLaughlin] sought a purer basis for abstraction in the Zen concept of the ‘marvelous […]
Dennis Kardon & Alexi Worth in Conversation
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Dennis Kardon and Alexi Worth discuss their paintings on the occasion of the recent exhibition Dennis Kardon & Alexi Worth: Within Reach at Myers School of Art, the University of Akron. Exhibition curator Matthew Kolodziej noted that Kardon and Worth “share a mutual engagement with how narrative, material, and perception intersect. Within these visual narratives, the […]
Mary Jones: Interview
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Brenda Zlamany interviews painter Mary Jones whose exhibition Proxima b is on view at John Molloy Gallery, New York, through November 26, 2016. Jones comments: “When I use a roller it has a motion and a weight that’s specific to the tool, and an extension of my body. I want it to be physical. It’s […]
Walter Darby Bannard: Modernism isn’t a style … it’s a working attitude
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Franklin Einspruch remembers painter Walter Darby Bannard (1934 – 2016) and considers Bannard’s recent paintings as the culmination of a lifelong exploration of abstraction: “Modernism isn’t a style, [Bannard] insisted, it’s a working attitude oriented toward visual excellence. ‘Modernism is aspiring, authoritarian, hierarchical, self-critical, exclusive, vertically structured, and aims for the best,’ he wrote in 1984. But […]
Sean Scully @ Mnuchin
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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 […]
Carmen Herrera: A Passionate Visual Idiom
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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 […]
Sarah Walker: Interview
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Mary Jones interviews painter Sarah Walker on the occasion of Walker’s show Space Machines at Pierogi, New York, on view through October 9, 2016. Walker comments: “I feel the title ‘Space Machines’ is relevant here, in that my work can generate a different sensibility of existing in space, an alternate form of cosmos. I feel they […]
Irving Sandler on Tenth Street Painting
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Franklin Einspruch interviews Irving Sandler about the Tenth Street painters and sculptors on the occasion of the exhibition Irving Sandler: Out of Tenth Street and Into the 1960s at Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, on view through October 11, 2014. Einspruch introduces the conversation by noting: "While there are only eight objects on display in […]
Milton Resnick at Mana Contemporary
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Jonathan Goodman reviews the exhibiton Milton Resnick (1917-2004): Paintings and Works on Paper from the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey, on view through August 1, 2014. Goodman writes: “Resnick lived his artistic life under the shadow of more famous painters, but that fact should not be allowed to […]