Julia Schwartz interviews artist Mark Dutcher whose show Transfer was recently on view at Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles. Dutcher comments: "I love the idea of trying build a utopian structure with the idea that the monument being built won’t last forever. I think that is glorious and absurd and very human... A monument. a ruin.
Sam Phillips visits the Barcelona studio of painter Sean Scully in advance of the exhibition Sean Scully: Triptychs at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, on view from November 2 – January 26, 2014. Scully tells Phillips: "Painting is an animal that is not a dodo: it will not become extinct...It always has the ability to shape-shift
Photo blog of Nicole Eisenman's works on view in the 2013 Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, on view through March 16, 2014. The exhibition website notes that "the work of Nicole Eisenman spans the absurd and abject to the introspective and irreverent, drawing on sources as varied as the iconography of
Thaddeus Radell reviews the exhibition See It Loud: Seven Post-War American Painters at the National Academy Museum, New York, on view through January 26, 2014. The show features work by Leland Bell, Paul Georges, Peter Heinemann, Albert Kresch, Stanley Lewis, Paul Resika and Neil Welliver. Radell writes that "after slogging through the demoralizing, conceptually sodden
Matthew Krishanu interviews painter Claudia Böse about her work. Böse comments that her works "are domestic. There is something about the domestic because they could be table mats, they could be screens. My work is also about things you handle every day. It’s not so explicit in this show but I’ve used the format of
Natasha Kurchanova interviews artist Dorothea Rockburne on the occasion of the exhibition Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on view through January 20, 2014. Kurchanova writes: "Drawing enters our bones, so to speak, when we begin to visualise Rockburne crafting delicate lines and fragile spaces with chosen
Blog post about the exhibition Volker Hüller: New Paintings at Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, on view through November 9, 2013. "Created from lengths of material, oil paint and pencil, Hüller’s large-scale canvases are shot through with sinuous lines arching and rebounding, demarcating the canvases and playing with the paintings’ sense of supposed authority. Meanwhile, smudges
Anne Russinof posts a 4 part photo-blog of paintings from the mega exhibition Come Together: Surviving Sandy. Conceived by the Dedalus Foundation in collaboration with Phong Bui, at Industry City, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, October 20 – December 15, 2013. (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four) The 100,000 square foot exhibition is "centered on
Jackie Wullschlager reviews the exhibition Raw Truth Auerbach − Rembrandt at Ordovas Gallery, London, on view from October 4 - December 1, 2013. Wullschlager writes that both artists "share muted earthy palettes – but as light emerges from dark tonalities, their paintings are radiant. Paint for both is a vehicle to convey a vision of
John Bunker, Anne Smart, Anthony Smart, Robin Greenwood, Sarah Greenwood, and Alexandra Harley visit the studio of painter Emyr Williams. Asked about an interest in controlling elements in the paintings, Williams remarks that control in painting means "Having an intent, so it’s not random. It’s the choice of how I want particular colours to appear…
Edward M. Epstein reviews the recent exhibition of works by Jack Whitten at Alexander Gray Associates, New York. Epstein writes: "Exuberant is the word I would use to describe Jack Whitten’s work over the years. While it is certainly possible to link the artist’s work to his African American background, to political turmoil current and
Dana Schutz comments on her recent paintings which are on view at The Hepworth Wakefield through January 26, 2014. Schutz comments: "Painting has many acts that are put together as one. My exhibition at the Hepworth revolves around canvases that show figures demonstrating simple actions as vehicles for painting. There’s one painting, for instance, where
Andrew Russeth reviews the exhibition New Paintings By at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York (through November 10), featuring works by Tisch Abelow, Matthew Fischer, Heather Guertin, Heidi Hahn, and Ariel Dill. Russeth writes that the works are "joyfully brash, lively and sophisticated. It’s a counter survey of sorts, fixed on pleasure... These people, and these
Veronika Vogler interviews painter Scott Olson about his work. Olson comments: "I am attracted to painting because of its problems. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish inherent problems in painting from the ones we make for it. I am drawn to them especially as they change over time through different periods of art history. I
Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco reviews a book on Sargy Mann, a painter who has continued to make perceptual-based work even as his eyesight has deteriorated. A short film trailer about Mann and information on both ebook and print copies are available via the book's kickstarter page. Del Turco writes that the book is a "go-back-to
Photo blog of the exhibition Gladys Nilsson, Julia Benjamin at The National Exemplar, New York, on view through October 19, 2013. The gallery press release states that Nilsson's paintings "depict a labyrinth of images, dense masses of people in motion, small figures balancing atop much bigger ones, overlapping and fighting with each other for space,
Larry Groff blogs about the new film Patrick George – A Likeness. Discussing plein-air painting in the film's trailer, George comments: "You can only suggest how it might be - 'it looks something like this' - to the best of my ability. When I come from London to the country, I'm always amazed at the
Christopher Knight reviews the exhibition Mark Dutcher: Transfer at Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles, on view through October 19, 2013. Knight writes: "Together, Joan Mitchell and Jasper Johns would seem to be an unlikely pair of inspirations for a new body of paintings, but there they are hovering in the background of 10 lovely recent works
John Seed interviews painter Julie Heffernan on the occasion of the exhibition Julie Heffernan: Sky is Falling at PPOW Gallery, New York, on view from October 17 - November 16, 2013. Introducing the interview Seed writes that Heffernan's works are "imaginative visions of a world that is blighted and chaotic yet somehow still transcendent. Each
David Evison reviews the recent exhibition Hans Hofmann: Magnum Opus at the Museum Pfalzgalerie. Kaiserlautern. A video (in English and German featuring Karen Wilkin and William Agee) about the show is available here. Evison writes: "From the evidence of this exhibition, Hofmann does not make a sudden breakthrough but gets to the top gradually. The