Abstraction
Dan Ramirez @ the National Museum of Mexican Art
New City Art
Mark Pohlad reviews Contemplations: Dan Ramirez Works from the Permanent Collection at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, on view through October 9, 2016. Pohlad writes: “Ramirez’s works reward careful viewing. Lines gradually attenuate and vanish, the edges of pieces are painted, and shadows are cast by slightly askew interstices. But all this formal […]
Etel Adnan’s Vibrant, Visual Poems
Hyperallergic
Maria Howard reviews Etal Adnan: The Weight of the World at the Serpentine Gallery, London, on view through September 11, 2016. Howard writes: “[Adnan’s] paintings evoke sheer joy, their style unpretentious, not naive but innocent, at odds with her poetry and writings that bear witness to the violence of the world. They may seem like […]
Carmen Herrera: Interview
Brooklyn Rail
Laila Pedro interviews painter Carmen Herrera on the occasion of Herrera’s retrospective Lines of Sight at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. The show will be on view from September 16, 2016 – January 2, 2017. In her introduction Pedro notes: “that [Herrera refers to her works as] not paintings, they’re not sculptures—they’re […]
Curt Barnes on Morris Louis
Painters on Paintings
Curt Barnes writes about painter Morris Louis. Barnes writes that although Pollock and Frankenthaler made great achievements in “painting as phenomenon,” Louis “remains the most vivid for me. The usually monumental size of his work could suggest a towering ego, yet somehow it needs to fill your field of vision, occupy an entire wall to […]
Jessica Stockholder: Interview
TimeOut New York
Paul Laster interviews artist Jessica Stockholder on the occasion of her exhibition The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, on view through October 1, 2016. Stockholder comments: “I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making. I’m interested in the idea of framing—the notion that artworks […]
The Abstract Image: Panel Discussion
Tom Burckhardt, Clare Grill, and Sangram Majumdar discuss their painting process and its relation to image-making.
Helen O’Leary: The Shelf Life of Facts
Artist Helen O’Leary discusses her artistic background and the origins of her current body of work.
John Hoyland @ Newport Street Gallery, London
For the inaugural show at Damian Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery, the artist has curated a show of paintings by the late John Hoyland.
Eating Painting
Eating Painting presents works that embody painting as an immersive sensory experience – the “consumption of paint as color and substance.”
Sarah Faux: Merging Sensibilities
Painter's Bread
Michael Rutherford blogs about paintings by Sarah Faux. Rutherford writes: “There’s been much said about how abstraction is very prevalent in contemporary painting these days, but there are those who are producing some wonderful work in a unique figurative vein as well, with precedence found in artists such as George McNeil and Amy Sillman. The […]
Brett Baker: Recent Paintings @ Elizabeth Harris Gallery
Painters’ Table readers are invited to an exhibition of recent paintings at the Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York.
Stanley Whitney: Care of the Brush
Whitney’s abstractions remind us of the sumptuousness that surrounds us, then propel us back out into the world to see it for ourselves.
Ken Weathersby: Interview
Painter's Bread
Michael Rutherford interviews painter Ken Weathersby about his work. Weathersby comments: "There is a certain territory that I’ve been involved in for eight or nine years, to do with reshuffling the given parts of painting. By 'given parts' I mean the wooden stretcher, the canvas or linen, the paint film, staples or hardware—the things paintings […]
Andrew Seto: The After Life of Paintings
Seto’s paintings never completely disavow the natural world for a purely intellectual one, existing instead as an open means of representation situated somewhere between.
Pat Passlof: Paintings from the 50s
An exhibition of early works by Pat Passlof tells the story of a talented, audacious painter coming of age during a legendary decade of New York painting.
What’s at Stake for Abstract Painting Today?
Joanne Greenbaum, Philip Taaffe, and Stanley Whitney discuss themes of authenticity and painting as a worthy, and a necessarily lifelong pursuit.
Brenda Goodman: Interview
Goodman explores powerfully personal narratives animated by a visual language that moves that moves freely between abstraction and representation.
Ying Li: Foreign Terrain
Ying Li’s recent paintings, on view at the College of Staten Island, fuse natural phenomena and the act of painting.