Contributed by Sharon Butler / Susan Rothenberg�s invariably forceful and confident paintings have a beguiling twitchiness, created out of layers of agitated brushwork from a […]
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Essex Flowers: Waiting to be activated
It saved me once too often,You’d never know how often.I’ve pictured you in coffins:My baby in a coffin.But I love it when you blink your […]
On a Cartoon Graveyard
Contributed by Julian Kreimer/�At 3:10 pm on a blustery Thursday afternoon, the falling sun refracted off the 3rd floor windows of PS 42, the Benjamin […]
Steve Hicks: Sparring shape and line
Contributed by Carol Diamond / Steve Hicks�s oil and acrylic canvases exude confidence and exuberance, like a teenager sporting a new outfit and venturing out […]
Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide: January 2020
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Wake up everyone, the holidays are over! Get back to work! Go out and see some shows! This month, despite […]
Jay Senetchko: A tale of two empires
Contributed by Dion Kliner / Looking from painting to painting at “The Course of a Distant Empire,� Jay Senetchko�s fine solo exhibition at Windsor Gallery […]
Laura Owens: So much fun
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Laura Owens�s mid-career survey�at the Whitney Museum�features more than�60 paintings, many large-scale and hung salon-style, from the mid-1990s until today. […]
On file: Leslie Brack at Cathouse Proper
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Offices were once equipped with typewriters, copy machines, and paperclips, and, of course, contained the files that organized and stored […]
Good incentive: Beth Dary�s drawing
Contributed by Sharon Butler / From�a recent exhibition organized to raise money for �Chef Jose Andres’s World Central Kitchen’s relief efforts in Puerto Rico, I […]
Art & Film: Liquid asset in The Shape of Water
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Cult film auteur Guillermo del Toro, director and co-writer of the triumphant The Shape of Water, sees 1962, in which […]
Jacqueline Humphries: The Matrix meets Cy Twombly
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In her ninth solo show at Greene Naftali, Jacqueline Humphries presents ten towering�canvases that grapple with our relationship to digital […]
Roy Dowell and Richard Kalina: Standing their ground
Contributed by Marjorie Welish / “Synchronicity: A State of Painting� an exhibition featuring work by�Roy Dowell and Richard Kalina, on view at Lennon, Weinberg through […]
Cary Smith�s hand-painted precision
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In his second solo at Fredericks & Freiser, Cary Smith presented a new group of his signature hard-edged abstractions. These�feature […]
Lauren Luloff: Drawing (with bleach) from life
Contributed by Eileen Jeng Lynch / Harking back to the Impressionists, Lauren Luloff has begun painting from life,�focusing on light, color, and the world around […]
Studio visit with Peter Schenck
Contributed by Julia Gray / Painter Peter Schenck combines hard-edge abstraction with gestural brushwork and vivid color to create densely patterned scenes that capture a […]
