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James Hyde reviews the recent exhibition Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975 at Gagosian Gallery, New York. Hyde writes: "Part of the interest of the work, then and now, is how it distills painterliness. The schema is simple—each painting contains roughly a dozen horizontal bands of red or black alternating with white or off-white. The canvas

Christopher Benfey reviews The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on view through May 21, 2017. Benfey writes: "An air of unreality hangs over the astonishing exhibition of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Hercules Segers ... More than once, I found myself wondering whether this extraordinary etcher and painter—the creator

Peter Malone reviews Elliott Green: Human Nature at Pierogi Gallery, New York, through March 26, 2017. Malone writes: "What’s unique about Elliott Green is how he strides confidently right over the rumbling fracture. Brandishing all manner of surface gymnastics, he takes the staid genre of landscape painting and puts it through a gantlet of techniques

John Seed interviews painter Marc Trujillo on the occasion of the exhibition Marc Trujillo: Urban Ubiquity at The Bakersfield Museum of Art, on view through May 7, 2017. Trujillo comments: "The chill of the void is alluring to me. These places that are nowhere and everywhere, big stretches of concrete and linoleum give me a

Debbi Kenote and Til Will interview painter Tirtzah Bassel whose work was recently on view with Slag Gallery at the Volta Art Fair, New York. Bassel comments: "... a lot of times the images in my paintings start from just an everyday situation that you would kind of see anywhere, right, at this point. You’re

Larry Groff interviews painter Donald Beal whose work will be on view in On the Shoulder of Giants, curated by Thaddeus Radell, at Westbeth Gallery, New York, on view through March 25, 2017. Beal comments: "The paintings done from life have given me the chops I need to meaningfully push color and tone around until

David Cohen's 2003 interview with painter R.B.Kitaj, republished on the occasion of the exhibition R.B.Kitaj: The Exile at Home, curated by Barry Schwabsky, at Marlborough Contemporary, New York, on view through April 8, 2017. "[Kitaj] is living proof of some traits his critic enemies picked up on: a promiscuous lover of big ideas, an inveterate

Susan Hodara reviews Alfred Sisley (1839-1899): Impressionist Master, an exhibition of 50 paintings at the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, on view through May 21, 2017. Hodara notes that the show "is the artist’s first retrospective in the United States in more than 20 years... [curator MaryAnne Stevens] described Sisley as 'a pure Impressionist.' A dedicated

Becky Huff Hunter reviews Douglas Witmer: Dubh Glas at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, on view through March 12, 2017. Hunter writes: "Each work in Witmer’s austere Winterbrook (2015‒17) series of six small panels brings out a different relational quality between paint and canvas: black wash opens up the flawed pores of the canvas grain; dense,

Phong Bui interviews painter Katharina Grosse whose work is on view at Gagosian Gallery, New York, through March 11, 2017. Grosse comments: "I think color is such an interesting analytical aspect of painting. It can sit anywhere. It can fit into anything. It can unify or break up the hierarchical orderliness of how we see

Natasha Kurchanova reviews Alexei Jawlensky at the Neue Galerie, New York, on view through May 29, 2017. Kurchanova writes: "Jawlensky was close to many of his well-known compatriots and colleagues who either migrated to Germany or resided there, including Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, Paul Klee and Ferdinand Hodler. The influence of these artists becomes manifest

Robert Barry reviews Antoni Tàpies: Revulsion and Desire at Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, on view through March 18, 2017. Barry writes: "There is a remarkable consistency in the work here, made between 1999 and 2011. All eight paintings eschew canvas for wood, often left raw and unvarnished, and share a sepia-toned palette of browns and

Yevgeniya Traps interviews painter Jack Whitten whose work is on view at Hauser & Wirth, New York through April 8, 2017. Whitten remarks: "I’m working with these units of paint, which I call tesserae—originally the word for ancient mosaics... The tesserae, in my mind, is the unit, it’s the thing that makes them. I can

Clarity Haynes and Kate Hawes talk to painter Brenda Goodman whose work will be on view at Jeff Bailey Gallery (Booth 4.07) at NADA Art Fair, New York from March 2 - 5, 2017. Goodman comments: "I did [abstract paintings] for ten years and I felt like 'I need more than this' and that's when

Raymond Foye and Peter Lamborn Wilson interview painter Tamara Gonzales whose work was recently on view at at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York. Gonzales comments: "Art school was so much fun, it seemed like a vacation from my life—a pleasure... But the idea that then you come out and you’re making art about the

Jana Prikryl writes about the paintings of Elliott Green which are on view at Pierogi Gallery, New York, through March 26, 2017. Prikryl begins: "Elliott Green’s paintings appear to be in continuous motion, the way animals, plants, and ultimately rocks and mountains are in continuous motion, even when our human vision fails to apprehend it.

Jason Stopa interviews painter Beverly Fishman on the occasion of her show DOSE, curated by Nick Cave, at the CUE Art Foundation, New York, on view through April 5, 2017. Fishman comments: "I believe that it’s important that the viewer know my content. That’s why I think my titles are significant, because they help to

Christian Viveros-Fauné reviews Alice Neel, Uptown, curated by Hilton Als, at David Zwirner Gallery, New York, on view through April 22, 2017. Viveros-Fauné writes: "An argument can be made that Neel reserved her best, most perceptive nose for difference for her less known sitters... These pictures and others are not only unmarred by agendas of

Phyllis Tuchman reviews Seurat's Circus Sideshow at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on view through May 29, 2017. Tuchman writes: "As in his other major works, Seurat was portraying an actual place in Circus Sideshow (Parade de Cirque)... A sequence of nine gas lamps perched above the temporary stage illuminates the scene; another

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