Andy Parkinson reviews an exhibition of recent paintings by Callum Innes at Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, on view through June 16, 2013. Parkinson writes that in viewing the painting Untitled 31, "there’s something timeless... except that it also seems to mark the passing of time both of the artist in the making of it and
Brent Hallard in conversation with painter Jeffrey Cortland Jones. Hallard begins the dialogue by noting that Jones' works are typcially "no larger than 14 inches on the high side, and the fact that the internal dynamics don’t really push beyond the borders, urges us to focus on what is there, with our eyes and our
James Kalm video blogs a walk-through of the exhibition Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective at the Whitney Museum, New York, on view through June 2, 2013. Kalm's video provides a unique, virtual close-up look at DeFeo's masterpiece The Rose. As Kalm notes the show "allows viewers the opportunity to see the wider spectrum of works produced
A report on a talk by painter Thomas Lawson about his work and practice given recently at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. "Early in his talk, Lawson brought up the question of painting's current validity as a medium - an ongoing dialog in which he has had a significant voice. Perhaps not surprisingly, he
Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy visit the studio of painter Becky Yazdan. Yazdan describes how she works "from memories, personal narrative and storytelling… Painting for me, is a way to process all the stuff that's going on in my head, it's a way to get my own personal narrative. Those layers, thinking about things in
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung discusses her work in a new video produced by the Walker Art Center on the occasion of the exhibition Painter Painter at the Walker, on view through October 27, 2013. Zuckerman-Hartung comments: "Deconstructed painting would be the best possible term for it. That implies how it's operating for me and how I'm thinking
David Cohen reviews the exhibition Sandy Walker: In Nature at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, on view through March 9, 2013. Cohen writes that "while [Walker's] exuberantly brushed, improvisatory landscapes veer towards the pantheistic in a generalized evocation of nature, they also seem, and in fact are, rooted in direct observation of actual places to
Valerie Brennan interviews painter Jered Sprecher about his work and practice. Sprecher's paintings are currently on view in the solo exhibition I Always Lie at Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York through March 23, 2013. Sprecher comments: "Paintings usually start from two different places. Some paintings begin with a found image, something like a quilt, gemstone,
Katherine Aimone writes about the paintings of Matthew Dibble. Aimone notes that the "energy on [Dibble's] canvases is scrappy, adventurous, unapologetic, and direct... there is an active athleticism in the dynamic surfaces of his pieces." In painting Temple Hum, she continues, "painterly surfaces merge and commune with one another—visual sensations advance and recede to create
Matthew Hassell reviews the exhibition Linda Francis: We Can Build You at Minus Space, Brooklyn, on view through March 23, 2013 Hassell writes: "To put it simply, Francis’s work is something of an intellectual feast. She is one of those people whose baffling understanding paired with a grasp of such a wide range of ideas
Terry R. Myers reviews the exhibition Bernard Frize: Winter Diary at Pace Gallery, New York, on view through March 9, 2013. Myers begins: "Somehow the sum of 100 percent offhandedness and 100 percent calculation, Bernard Frize’s paintings continue to defy even their own expectations, provocatively dividing them from the work of his peers without coming
Thoughts on the paintings of George Shaw, an artist "not interested in entering a dialogue in which paint is believed to take on the properties of the thing it depicts. His use of Humbrol enamel - a substance used for painting toy models - is an amusing allusion to paint as an embodiment of childhood
Larry Groff interviews painter Lucy MacGillis about her work. MacGillis comments: "I always paint from life. In the landscape I remove and add where it works best for the painting, but I’m out there. The experience of being physically in the landscape I’m painting is important, the heat, the smells, the sounds of the nearby
Christopher Joy and Zachary Keeting interview painter Todd Kelly at his exhibition My Own Personal Rebus at Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, on view through March 9, 2013. Kelly, who employs a surprising range of style and subject matter in his work, describes how he thinks of painting "as a method of thinking... With this
Ben Street blogs about the paintings of Andrew Sendor whose exhibition messages.calendar.camera.jpg is on view at Sperone Westwater, New York, through March 30, 2013. Street notes that: "Andrew Sendor’s recent paintings describe the future in terms of the past. Interiors that recede efficiently according to fifteenth-century pictorial principles – this in front of that, the
Joanne Mattera provides an in-depth look at (mostly) abstract painting shows in Chelsea including: Stephen Antonakos: Pillows 1962-63 at Lori Bookstein Fine Art (through March 6), Mara Held at Gary Snyder Gallery, Matthew Weinstein: The Celestial Sea at Sonnabend Gallery, Todd Kelly: My Own Personal Rebus at Asya Geisberg Gallery (through March 9), Peter Wayne
Marielle Hehir reviews the exhibition Treatment at PS Mirabel, on view through March 9, 2013. The show features paintings by Laura Jane Blake, Neill Clements, Terry Greene, Mark Kennard, Matthew Macaulay, and Richard Ward. Hehir writes that "Treatment presents us a selection of current trends in abstract painting, with six contemporary UK based painters. The
James Kalm visits the exhibition Jim Dine: New Paintings at Pace Gallery, New York, on view through March 23, 2013. Kalm notes: "Dine's new works are a distinct departure form his previous imagistic works where he based his compositions of a frontal view of a heart or bathrobe. Along with a plunge in to pure
William Eckhardt Kohler reviews the exhibition Cora Cohen: The Responsibility of Forms at Guided By Invoices, New York, on view through March 16th, 2013. Kohler writes: "The resonant quiet of [Cohen's] work allows the viewer to contemplate and appreciate the various moves and counter moves that the artist chooses. First, she usually chooses to stretch
Valerie Brennan interviews painter Douglas Witmer about his work and process. Witmer's exhibition All Kinds of Ways to Your Garden was recently on view at Blank Space, New York. Witmer comments: "Even though my current work may be categorized as geometric, I think I'm quite 'gestural' in my approach to it. Almost every decision I