James Panero blogs about an exhibition of works by Cathy Nan Quinlan and Kurt Hoffman at Valentine Gallery, New York, on view through June 24, 2012. Panero notes: "Ms. Quinlan starts with Giorgio Morandi's iconic etchings and recasts them in oil, painting her own hatch-marks. The work has an intimate, cool feel, with unexpected colors
Paul Behnke blogs images of the exhibition Julie Torres: Bold As Love at Taller Boricua Gallery, New York, on view through July 14, 2012. Behnke writes: "Julie Torres took over two large rooms with her colorful, complex works on paper. Torres displayed the work in inventive groupings that activated, and interacted with the space, and
Lines and Colors
Charley Parker blogs about the exhibition Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum on view at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, TN from June 23 - September 30, 2012. Parker writes: "Constable in his sketches not only sought the truth of nature, but the fleeting effects of light and
Rachel Cooke visits the studio of painter Jenny Saville whose work is on view at Modern Art Oxford and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, from June 23 - September 16, 2012. Cooke writes: "...out of the corner of my eye, I see it. A portrait: a woman, her neck at a difficult angle, her head tipped
Danila Rumold reviews the recent exhibition My Broken Loom featuring works by Kimberly Trowbridge, Robert Hardgrave, Brian Cypher and Jenny Heishman at Gage Academy Steele Gallery. Rumold writes that "During the artist talk, given on opening night, Trowbridge shared the meaning behind the title of the exhibition explaining how the work included was not predetermined,
James Kalm interviews painter Regina Bogat and visits her exhibition Regina Bogat: Stars at Art 101, Brooklyn, NY, on view through July 1, 2012. Kalm notes: "This small selection of recent paintings presents works from Bogat's 'Star' series. Melding an inquiry of the geometry of star images with an unrestrained painterlyness these pictures, upon contemplation,
David Carrier reviews the exhibition André Masson: The Mythology of Desire - Masterworks from 1925 to 1945 at Blain/Di Donna, New York, on view through June 15, 2012. Carrier writes that "if some of Masson’s all-over figurative compositions lead towards Abstract Expressionism, his late 1930s works lead in a very different direction. They anticipate the
Tyler Green interviews art historian Jonathan Brown about his new book Murillo: Virtuoso Draftsman, a catalogue raisonne of Murillo's drawings published by Yale University Press. Brown discusses Murillo's drawing process in detail. He remarks that Murillo is "a very spirited draftsman, perhaps more spirited as a draftsman than he is as a painter." He continues:
Katarina Hybenova talks with Julie Torres about the exhibition ALLTOGETHERNOW at the Coin Locker during Bushwick Open Studios. Torres organized the show which brought painters from around the world together for a collaborative exhibition. The exhibition featured work by Brian Cypher, Brian Edmonds, David T. Miller, Ian White Williams, Inga Dalrymple, Julie Alexander, Justine Frischmann,
Painter's Bread
Michael Rutherford interviews artist Clinton King about his work and making a shift from sculpture to painting. In the sculptures, King remarks, "I often worked with a material in a 'natural way' letting the object and material 'just be.' Working in this way I developed sensitivity and a lightness of touch. This later grew into
Carmen Winant visits the exhibition Michael Berryhill: Incidental Western at Kansas Gallery, New York, on view through June 23, 2012. Winant posts a list of thoughts evoked by the exhibition. She writes: "I believe that this enumerated strategy will better serve objects that, by their very nature, elude clever and perspicuous description." Berryhill's work, she
Bill Hare writes about the work of Iain Robertson on the occasion of the exhibition Iain Roberston: Paintings 2007-2012 at 108 Fine Art, Harrogate, UK, through July 7, 2012. Hare notes: "Being an abstract artist is it appropriate to ask, what is the subject content of Robertson's paintings? Despite their non-mimetic appearance they are not
Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy visit painter Dushko Petrovich's studio to talk about his work and process. Describing his paintings of flowers, Petrovich remarks: "I was wondering about why we make a painting at all, why you would have an object, why you would represent an object… flowers struck me as the quintessential object, quintessential
Donald Kuspit reviews the recent exhibition Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Kuspit writes that "It seems possible to link Jukuchu's 18th-century Japanese nature paintings to 19th-century European paintings romanticizing nature... But European paintings that 'romanticize' nature, whether as ingratiatingly idyllic or in
Whitney Kimball interviews painter Judy Glantzman about her process and her new series of work. Kimball writes: " 'The beginnings of paintings are always really nice,' Judy Glantzman tells me, 'because the quality of touch, the hand, are almost the realest moments…and then you have to go the whole friggin' time to get back to
Peter Schjeldahl reports on Lisa Yuskavage's talk on Edouard Vuillard at the Jewish Museum. Schjeldahl writes: "Yuskavage’s analysis of Vuillard's art, and of her own, amounted to a clinic in painting for painting’s sake.... Painters naturally assume the importance of their subjects, she said. Meaning emerges by way of stroke-by-stroke discovery and invention: 'making painting
Jarrett Earnest interviews painter Dana Schutz about her work on the occasion of the exhibition Dana Schutz: Piano in the Rain at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, on view through June 16, 2012. Schutz comments: "This idea that narrative is 'bad' might be a leftover from Modernism; a notion that narrative is 'kitschy,' too illustrative,
Belgian painter Bram Bogart died May 2, 2012 at the age of 90. In The Guardian obituary, Michael McNay writes: "This sense in his work of the tangible, a coming together of his first job painting houses and his implacably wall-like landscapes, lasted throughout Bogart's lifetime, through to the overwhelming presence of his celebrated late
John Haber reviews the exhibition Tom McGrath: Profiles in Fugitive Light at Sue Scott Gallery, New York, on view through June 10, 2012. Haber writes: "A chain-link fence runs through [the paintings], parallel and close to the picture plane, while other barriers to entry run in and out of sight... The fence suggests a point
David Balzer reviews the exhibition Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940 at the Jewish Museum, New York, on view through September 23, 2012. Balzer writes that in the exhibition "one sees not only a fabulously talented painter at work, but also rich context, and multiple stories being told. One of these stories is