Abstraction
Grand Gestures
Three artists exhibiting side-by-side at the Painting Center are presenting refreshingly straightforward abstractions.
Conversation with Alfredo Gisholt
Gisholt paints timeless, poetic worlds where the everyday and the grand tradition of painting merge.
The Ability of Paint
Interview with painter Paul Behnke, curator of the exhibition Eight Painters at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York.
Joan Thorne’s Musical Paintings
Supreme Fiction
James Panero reviews an exhibition of recent paintings by Joan Thorne at Sideshow Gallery, on view through November 10, 2013. Panero writes: “One of abstract painting’s earliest interests was the depiction of sound… Joan Thorne explores this legacy with a finely tuned suite of work.Like the recent sculptures of Frank Stella, which visualized Scarlatti, Thorne’s abstractions have […]
The Edge and a Little Beyond
Six abstract artists push out the edge of the painting. The work, verging on sculpture, clearly comes from a painter’s mind.
DeShawn Dumas: Interview
DeShawn Dumas prefers materials that possess troubled pasts in addition to their aesthetic qualities.
Carrie Moyer: Studio Visit
Carrie Moyer describes her process, which begins with small black and white collages, and discusses her influences – including Miro’s The Farm (1921–1922) and paintings by Christian Schad and Alexej von Jawlensky.
George Hofmann’s Instant Awareness
As our ability to sense individual moments is being destroyed, George Hofmann paints what amounts to a collection of instants.
Dazzling Darkness
In his Theory of Colors, Goethe observes that “the greatest brightness short of dazzling acts near the greatest darkness.”
Sean Scully’s Physical Spirituality
Painter's Bread
Michael Rutherford discovers a great trailer for the documentary film Sean Scully: The Bloody Canvas, produced by Yellow Asylum Films for RTE, directed by Alan Gilsenan with photography direction by Richard Kendrick. The film mixes audio interview with footage of Scully working in his studio. As the film begins, Scully remarks: "In my kind of […]
Re-Generation: Josef Albers’ Legacy of Teaching
The new exhibition Re-Generation “traces the regeneration of thought in painting and art education.”
Perle Fine: The Cool Series
A student of Hans Hofmann, Perle Fine’s artistic circle included the most accomplished New York School and European painters.
Milton Resnick Speaks
In a recently posted audio recording, Milton Resnick speaks about painting and his work.
Budd Hopkins (1932 – 2011)
Better known for his parallel career as a UFO advocate and author, Budd Hopkins, deserves to be remembered for his painting career.
John Hoyland (1934 – 2011)
Painter John Hoyland died yesterday at age 76. Hoyland was part of the 1960 exhibition Situation: An Exhibition of British Abstract Painting, which also featured Gillian Ayres and William Turnbull. This exhibition featured large-scale abstract paintings that involved the viewer’s entire field of vision creating an immersive experience or “situation”. 1 In the 1960’s, Hoyland […]
Charline von Heyl Lecture
Charline von Heyl presents a generous and illuminating lecture on her work.
Hedda Sterne (1911 – 2011)
Hedda Sterne’s work always remained fiercely individual, ground-breaking, and difficult to categorize.
David Malek at Rawson Projects
16 Miles of String
Andrew Russeth examines the positive qualities of influence in the work of painter David Malek. In Malek’s exhibition Hexagons at Rawson Projects his work seems to engage in unapologetic dialogues with several system based painters including (early) Frank Stella and Sol Lewitt. However, Russeth remarks, “What once looked logical, rational, and predetermined… begins to look […]
Clyfford Still: A Life in Paintings
Clyfford Still: A Life in Paintings featuring painter Bill Jensen discussing his own discovery of Clyfford Still’s work.