Judith H. Dobrzynski reviews the exhibition Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World on view at The Whitney Museum through October 16, 2011. The exhibition, Dobrzynski writes, shows "the full range of work of an artist whose reputation is not what it should be or who (perhaps) isn't well known... In Germany, Feininger is
Interview with painter Victoria Webb about her work. "I began as a representational artist and still love and appreciate good figurative work. And often I'll paint a landscape that’s absolutely recognizable. But my intent since the late 1980s has been focused on color and form..." Webb also comments on the local art scene in Atlanta
Libby Rosof writes about the visionary collages of artist Ann Irwin. Rosof notes: "Irwin’s work has diary elements expressed not through words but through images... [she] asked her paper and foil and twigs to function as a silent prayer, to anchor the dreamy images, to keep them real and material." Transmutation and Metamorphosis: The Collages
To celebrate the 4th, Charley Parker blogs about "One of the key figures in early American painting, Charles Wilson Peale... known in particular for his portraits of the Founding Fathers and other figures from the American Revolution." Parker also notes that in addition to being his achievements as a painter Peale was "a member of
Larry Groff interviews fellow painter Celia Reisman about her work, influences, and studio practice. Reisman states: "I came to representation backwards; abstraction first and then direct observation. As a student... I was influenced by my professors who were abstract expressionists. I wanted to paint the figure and interiors but no one was working from direct
Interview with London-based painter Sarah McNulty. McNulty describes her paintings as "primarily abstractions, often with ties to the physical world and destructive elements of it, though ultimately I'm far more concerned with the materiality than any subject… in materiality taking over, when images and objects turn and deceive, suddenly becoming foreign."
H. Haines posts about the exhibition Georg Baselitz: Between Eagles and Pioneers on view at White Cube, London through July 9, 2011. " The paintings "[continue Baselitz's] famous upside-down images while using three main motifs – eagles, dogs and double portraits..."
Martin Bromirski posts installation photos of the exhibition Susan Scott: Paintings at John Davis Gallery on view through July 17, 2011. Text from Scott's recent exhibition at the Danforth Museum (MA) describes her work as "Influenced by the aesthetics of contemporary painting, as well as the thrifty and improvised nature of folk art, Susan Scott
Maureen Mullarkey blogs about the exhibition Paul Resika: Flowers on view through August 5, 2011 at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York. "a survey of atypical floral still lifes that begins in the late 1980s and continues into the present. A dozen small scale... arrangements illustrate his coloristic verve, an inheritance from his youthful study
Mary Addison Hackett blogs images of self-taught and outsider art from the Anthony Petullo Collection including paintings by James Dixon (1887-early 1970's), Sylvia Levine (1911-1998), James Lloyd (1905-1974), Alfred Wallis, and Justin McCarthy.
Altoon Sultan blogs about 15th century manuscripts and rare books on view at the Rauner at Dartmouth College. Sultan writes "When I see the refinement and marvelous detail of the borders surrounding the illuminations, I have a feeling that the makers of these pages loved color, loved ornament, loved nature."
Sharon Butler blogs about the recent exhibition Susan Bee: Recalculating (New Paintings) at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn. Butler writes that Bee "presents three separate series of bright, small-scale paintings that explore emotional conflict, trauma, and personal narrative in a movingly idiosyncratic way."
Eric Zimmerman visits the Blinky Palermo Retrospective now on view at Dia:Beacon and CSS Bard on view through October 31, 2011. Referring to Palermo's Graue Schiebe (1970) Zimmerman notes "The painting's surface is as erratic as its shape, which draws you close and then promptly insists you back up again, a process that can continue
Cole Carothers shares thoughts on a painting by Gerhard Richter in the Cincinnati Art Museum. Carothers writes: "[Richter's] relationship with action painting feels different. Where the Americans, paint 'inside the painting' as if they are part of an heroic landscape that is new world/American, Richter's mindset is distinctly psychological... His expressiveness seems more tragic, introverted,
Christopher Knight reports on the "breathtaking Ardabil Carpet, an incomparable 16th-century masterpiece... one of the two greatest Persian rugs ever woven." The rug was created "While Titian was busy painting the voluptuous 'Venus of Urbino' in Italy," and, Knight continues, is "A Persian version of a Latin 'hortus conclusus' -- literally, an enclosed garden --
Joey Veltkamp interviews painter Allison Schulnik about her work. Schulnik notes: "For me, I work to liberate monsters. I see the paintings as monuments to the rejected, forlorn or foolish. The works are sanctuaries and I am happy to provide that. Happiness and balance is the goal."
A collection of shaped canvas paintings highlighting the variety of painterly possibilities beyond the rectangle - including work from modern masters such as Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly and Blinky Palermo alongside contemporary painters Jan Maarten Voskuil, Victor White, JCJ Vanderheyden, Till Orlando Frijns, and Rupprecht Geiger.
Geoff Tuck posts installation views of Margie Livingston's installation Twenty Gallons at LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exhibitions, on view through March 25, 2012. Of Livingston's brushstrokes, Tuck writes, "they are objects unto themselves. They are several removes away from the act of painting, and flirt with sculpture but then veer off in a
A. Bregman posts installation photos from Manet, the Man who Invented Modernity at the Musée d'Orsay on view through July 17, 2011. Bregman writes: "The exhibition is designed around 12 questions, as based in stylistic elements and evolution of the artist's life," that demonstrate how "[Manet's] vision of modernity was cemented with the revelation of
Lily Simonson interviews curators Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster about the exhibition Unfinished Paintings at LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions on view through August 28, 2011. The exhibition features "paintings by 38 different artists at various stages of completion" illuminating the process and decision making that occur in the development of a painting. Calabrese