Landscape Painting
Fairfield Porter @ Tibor de Nagy
East Hampton Star
Jennifer Landes reviews Fairfield Porter: Things as They Are at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, on view through December 10, 2016. Landes notes: “Porter’s subjects are quotidian, even banal. [Karen] Wilkin says [in her catalogue essay] that in that way he was a 20th-century Vermeer: ‘He could make nothing in particular seem as if it […]
Théodore Rousseau: Unruly Nature
Apollo Magazine
Laura Gascoigne reviews Théodore Rousseau: Unruly Nature at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, on view through January 8, 2017. Gascoigne begins “The CVs of great artists are seldom studded with successes, and sometimes their failures are more consequential. If the young Théodore Rousseau had won the Prix de Rome in 1829, he would have travelled […]
Lois Dodd: Endless Summer
Artdeal Magazine
Addison Parks writes about the work of painter Lois Dodd. Parks observes: “It is a little like Giorgio Morandi. Through World Wars and revolutions we got still-lifes of jars and bottles and glasses, maybe some flowers, maybe a shift in palette. Something that didn’t change in a changing world. The same could be said of […]
The Chase: Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed
London Review of Books
Inigo Thomas reconsiders J.M.W. Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed: The Great Western Railway (1844). Thomas asks: “chasing after hares is as old as any ancient rite, but who or what is hunting the hare in Turner’s painting? Is it just a train, and how familiar, really, is that location? You can shut down the iconographical […]
Hearne Pardee @ Bowery Gallery
On View At
John Goodrich reviews a recent exhibition of works by Hearne Pardee at Bowery Gallery, New York. Goodrich writes: “When artists share their process, they usually call our attention to particularly evocative materials and techniques. Pardee, however, focuses on a different kind of process, one that’s arguably even more fundamental to visual experience: the challenges of […]
Ying Li: Interview
Painting Perceptions
Larry Groff interviews painter Ying Li on the occasion of her exhibition Geographies at Haverford College, on view through October 7, 2016. Li comments: “I think these two are really one thing; they’re so tied together, looking out and then looking in on the canvas. I try to make that switch as short as possible […]
John Walker at Alexandre Gallery
John Walker’s recent paintings, on view at Alexandre Gallery, continue to revitalize abstraction through intense, prolonged immersion in nature.
Stephanie Pierce: Sight & Sound
Stephanie Pierce’s paintings evoke a sense of place that extends beyond the visual.
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.
Ying Li: What’s In Front of Me
In a new video by John Thornton Ying Li discusses her approach to painting.
Nicolas de Staël: Needs to be Seen
The general neglect of de Staël is a missed opportunity for American painters.
Tenses of Landscape
A new show “presents both broad and dynamic depictions of landscape revealed as motif.”
Nick Miller’s Truckscapes
A short film by Bill Haynes documents painter Nick Miller’s mobile studio.