Matthew Neil Gehring blogs about two shows at Brian Morris Gallery, New York: On the Money (through May 17), featuring works by Alison Hall, Suzanne Jolson, Zachary Keeting, Jenna Pirelli, David Rhodes, and Gary Stephan; and From Now On In (closed) featuring works by Michael Berryhill, Tom Burkhardt, Steve DiBenedetto, Lydia Dona, Fabian Marcaccio, Carrie
Etty Yaniv reviews Karen Schwartz: Down the Rabbit Hole and works on paper by Margrit Lewczuk at Life on Mars Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, on view through May 31, 2015. Yaniv writes that Schwartz's paintings "conjure a sense of grief with the gusto of life. Equipped with her intense inward gaze as a professional therapist, Schwartz
Thomas Gebremedhin interviews painter Lisa Yuskavage whose work is on view at David Zwirner, New York, through June 13, 2015. Yuskavage comments: "I’ve gotten cease and desist letters. They’ve called me pornographic, like it’s a bad thing. We are living in a world where you have to go to battle to have an open mind.
Jenny Uglow reviews Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album at the Courtauld Gallery, London, on view through May 25, 2015. Uglow writes: "Most of the drawings date from 1819 to 1820, when Goya was in his early seventies. In 1819 he had bought his house in the country, where he covered the walls with
Roman Kalinovski reviews the recent exhibition Alexi Worth: Green Glass Doors at DC Moore Gallery, New York. Kalinovski observes: "Worth uses non-traditional supports and techniques in his work. Painting with airbrushed acrylic on nylon mesh or Mylar has the effect of layering illusionistic space on top of the painting’s actual, material space. In areas where
Kerry Cardoza reviews works by Todd Kelly & Morgan Mandalay at LVL3, Chicago, on view through May 10, 2015. Cardoza writes: "The works by Todd Kelly and Morgan Mandalay ... help bring the concept of the still life into the twenty-first century. Kelly’s pieces are the more straightforward of the two, with influences ranging from
Mark Skilton, Hilde Skilton, John Bunker, Nick Moore, Sam Cornish, Robin Greenwood, Sarah Greenwood, Anne Smart, Anthony Smart, Ben Wiedel- Kaufmann, Noela James, and Emyr Williams visit the studio of painter Patrick Jones. Jones introduces the work noting that "the paintings, to me, are to do with the fact that I work very, very thinly,
Alice Spawls reviews an exhibition of works by Leonora Carrington at Tate Liverpool, on view through May 31, 2015. Spawls writes: "[Carrington] refused to explain her personal symbolism, but called reading The White Goddess ‘the greatest revelation of my life’. The figure of the muse, Robert Graves’s ‘Mother of all Living, the ancient power of
Annie Correal profiles painter Leo J. Bates (1944-2013). Correal writes: "Looking at Mr. Bates’s work, it is clear that something happened when he left Manhattan and moved to Brooklyn. When he plunged into deep solitude, he found something new... Mr. Bates’s last paintings were huge X’s and chevrons that when examined closely revealed tiny grids
Altoon Sultan blogs about the recent exhibition Palermo Works 1973-1976 at David Zwirner Gallery, New York. Sultan observes: "Looking at the long black line on the left wall, I see that it has some weight and presence, but it's not quite a sculpture. It is, rather, a long narrow, irregular painting, pointed on both ends
Anne Blood reviews One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Works at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, on view through September 7, 2014. Blood writes: "Lawrence conceived the Migration Series as a single work composed of 60 parts ... He began by writing the captions, which were then edited by his
Alexis Clements reviews works by Etel Adnan at Galerie Lelong, New York, on view through May 8, 2015. Clements writes: "On Adnan’s uncluttered canvases the color vibrates and pulses with an ecstatic fluorescence that lends many of the abstract works on display an energy and life that I could not look away from... Beyond Adnan’s
John Goodrich reviews John Dubrow: Transformations at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, on view through April 25, 2015. Goodrich writes that "what is especially rewarding about [Dubrow's] latest work... is the way it continues to explore and evolve. In his case, the evolution isn’t towards a more provocative technique or motif – if anything,
David Cohen moderates an email roundtable discussion on the work of Thomas Nozkowski, on view at Pace Gallery, New York, through April 25, 2015. Participants include: Joseph Masheck, David Brody, Alexander Ross, Marjorie Welish, Jennifer Riley and Raphael Rubinstein. Rubinstein comments: "Putting aside for the moment the question of why Nozkowski and others have been
Benjamin Britton considers Julie Mehretu's Mogamma (A Painting in Four Parts): Part II in the collection of the High Museum of Art. Britton writes: "From my first introduction to Mehretu’s work, I was struck by its speed and multiplicity of transparent perspectives. The paintings gave the sensation of lives lived in multiple locations, the architecture
Steven Alexander blogs about Julian Hatton: New Season at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, on view through May 9, 2015. Alexander writes: "Working with aspects of observed landscape as his starting point, Hatton builds abstract compositions comprised of many layers of shapes and spaces -- beautiful contrasts of linear and planar dynamics laid out in
Alteronce Gumby conducts an extensive oral history interview with painter Stanley Whitney. Whitney comments: "... my big goal.[was that] I wanted to open the work up—not relying on the color, but on structure. I thought that Color Field artists were weak with their structure. And the color in those days was weak too. They used
John Goodrich reviews Summer Wheat: Walk-In Pantry at Fridman Gallery, New York, on view through April 25, 2015. Goodrich writes: " Lining the black-painted walls are 11 six-foot-tall paintings, each a brushy, schematic depiction of kitchenware-laden shelves. Caught in florid strokes of black enamel paint and charcoal dust, the depicted objects have a cartoon-like life
Janet McKenzie reviews Cubism 2.0 at Hanina Fine Arts, London, on view through July 8, 2015. The show features works by André Beaudin, Étienne Béothy, Róbert Bérény, Jacques Busse, Youla (Jules) Chapoval, Serge Charchoune, Jean Chevolleau, Jean Isy De Botton, Maurice-Henri Gaudefroy, Léon Gischia, Gino Gregori, Raymond Guerrier, André Lhote, Bill Parker, Ferdinand Parpan, Jean
Dennis Kardon reviews From Now On In at Brian Morris Gallery and Buddy Warren Inc., New York, on view through April 25, 2015. The show features works by Michael Berryhill, Tom Burckhardt, Steve DiBenedetto, Lydia Dona, Fabian Marcaccio, Carrie Moyer, and Alexi Worth. Kardon notes: "Significant painting is so difficult to attain today because it