Simon Bayliss reviews the Jerwood Painting Fellowships 2013 exhibition at Jerwood Space, London, through April 28, 2013. The show features work by Anthony Faroux, Susan Sluglett and Sophia Starling. Bayliss begins: "Painting can now be considered a mode of thought or a philosophy which can be applied outside of the confines of the medium and
Brendan Dooley reviews the exhibition Painterly Pasted Pictures at Freedman Art, New York, on view through May 18, 2013. Dooley writes that the exhibtion "brings together a group of collages from the 20th century united by the stylistic trait of 'painterliness.' ... Though painterliness obviously has its roots in painting, this exhibition shows how easily
Altoon Sultan blogs about the exhibition Piero della Francesca in America at The Frick Collection, New York, on view through May 19, 2013. Sultan writes: "When people speak of his work as being calm, I would say 'still.' Rather than calm I see an austere presence, a severity of form and mien, in the sense
Sharon Butler posts installation photos from the exhibition Emergence at Hôtel de Sauroy, Paris, on view through April 27, 2013. The show features works by Eve Aschheim, A.T Biltereyst, Katrin Bremermann, Sharon Butler, Claire Chesnier, Clem Crosby, Fieroza Doorsen, Amy Feldman, Yifat Gat, Kevin Monot, Erin Lawlor, Paul Pagk, Marine Pages, Andrew Seto, Radu Tuian,
Xico Greenwald interviews painter John Dubrow. A solo show of Dubrow's recent work is currently on view at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York (through April 20) and a retrospective of his paintings, A Formal Realist: The Works of John Dubrow is on view at the Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA (through May 19). Asked about
Janet McKenzie considers the exhibition Portraiture In Focus: Irene Barberis, Anita Taylor and Helen Sturgess at Langford 120, North Melbourne, Australia (through April 21, 2013) in the context of post-war British portraiture and recent Australian art. McKenzie writes: "With a revival of figurative art in the 1980s came a renewed interest in drawing, an art
John Yau writes about the exhibition Sanford Wurmfeld: Color Visions 1966 – 2013 at the Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, on view through April 30, 2013. Yau notes: "Wurmfeld’s deep historical research in the field of color theory is unrivaled. He is, in that regard, both a painter and a scholar, a combination the
Holly Myers reviews the exhibition Lisa Adams: Second Life at CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, on view through May 12, 2013. Myers writes that "If painting can be said to live at the threshold between the external visual world of objects and the internal visual world of the imagination, the relative pull of either pole varies
Mary Negro visits the studio of painter Greg Goldberg on the occasion of the exhibition Greg Goldberg: Northern Light at Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, on view April 17 - May 31, 2013. Negro begins: "There is a welcoming demeanor to Greg Goldberg’s bright, airy Manhattan studio that compliments his own as he places canvas
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Thomas Micchelli reviews the exhibition Post-War Italian Art: Accardi, Dorazio, Fontana, Schifano at Sperone Westwater, New York, on view through May 4, 2013. Micchelli writes: "The works in this show have in common an enduring simplicity of means, a Classicism pliant enough to encompass minimalist analytics, anti-art stratagems and the headiness of Pop. The work
Mira Schor writes about the exhibition Susanna Heller: Phantom Pain at Magnan Metz Gallery, New York, on view through April 20, 2013. Schor directs her attention specifically to a group of paintings Heller made of her husband while he recovered from a serious illness. Schor writes that "[Heller] sat in the hospital making hundreds of
Part of the In Process blog series, Paul Behnke posts about the development of two paintings by Gabriel Phipps. Of his process, Phipps remarks: "My painting process combines critical thinking and intuition. I have no single method of making a painting. There are times when I find an image purely through the act of painting.
Rachel Spence reviews the exhibition Tiziano at the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, on view through June 16, 2013. Spence writes: "Whatever his subject, the Venetian master always dissolved intellect into imagination; conceptuality into organic compositions. No wonder he is the painter’s painter; the touchstone for Rubens, Velázquez and Delacroix. (The latter said that all great
Christopher Joy and Zachary Keeting talk with Catherine Murphy about the work in her exhibition Catherine Murphy: Recent Work at Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, on view through April 27, 2013. Murphy discusses her process and how she came to care "about the whole surface." She explains: "It's a kind of way of seeing that
After visiting the recent exhibition Steve Wheeler: The Oracle Visiting the 21st Century at David Findlay Jr. Gallery, David Brody and Drew Lowenstein discuss the art and lasting influence of painter Steve Wheeler. Brody remarks that Wheeler "always had fans –– the work’s sheer persistent quality keeps it alive. As the wheel of poetic injustice
William Poundstone blogs about the late paintings of Giorgio de Chirico. Poundstone writes that recently "De Chirico was the only canonical modernist who spent most of his life proclaiming that modern art was junk. He called for a return to Old Master values as early as 1919, just as his career was taking off. The
Valerie Brennan interviews painter James Austin Murray about his work and process. Murray comments: "When I've got good flow it's like the painting is a partner and we're having a discussion. It lets me know what it wants and I try to work with it... As I've gotten older I've realized how important it is
Daniel Sturgis interviews painter Sophia Starling whose work is on view at the Jerwood Painting Fellowships 2013 exhibition at Jerwood Space, London, through April 28, 2013. Starling remarks: "I became interested in what abstract painting could be, so I developed this process where the support, the paint and the material all have equal weight, they
Review of the exhibition Antonio Adriano Puleo: Sculpted Paintings & Painted Sculptures at Luckman Gallery, on view through June 1, 2013. The paintings "hold together under the well established tradition of painterly exploration. The gallery's website mentions Frank Stella, Josef Albers, Ad Reinhardt, and Robert Ryman as some of Puleo's influences - all artists who
A blog post that disputes the commonly held notion that Jean-Michel Basquiat was an "angry" artist. "This designation is partly due to a 1983 interview with Henry Geldzahler where Basquiat described his work as being 80% about anger. But as a descriptor, 'anger' fails to explain the manifold conditions of art-making... You have to be