Tag Archives: Painting

Connecting – Part 6: Postscript and Postmortem

by Damien James | Dec 17, 2010

Connecting – Part 6: Postscript and Postmortem

by Damien James | Dec 17, 2010

After exhibiting at The Artist Project in 2008, Pamela Johnson’s American Still Life series began getting attention. Pepperdine University’s Weisman Museum of Art, Adler & Co. Gallery, and the San …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Mark Bradford: Painter

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 15, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Mark Bradford: Painter

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 15, 2010

If you live, work, or happen to be traveling through Boston any time soon, make absolutely sure you see Mark Bradford‘s mid-career retrospective at the Institute for Contemporary Art. This …

Connecting – Part 5: Effortless

by Damien James | Dec 15, 2010

Connecting – Part 5: Effortless

by Damien James | Dec 15, 2010

During the film My Kid Could Paint That (2007, Sony Pictures), New York Times chief art critic Michael Kimmelman said: I think the beauty of art is that it is …

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Interview with John Riepenhoff of The Green Gallery

by Martine Syms | Dec 14, 2010

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Interview with John Riepenhoff of The Green Gallery

by Martine Syms | Dec 14, 2010

In his artist statement for a recent exhibition at the Institute of Visual Arts, John Riepenhoff used Colby cheese to make a comment on regionalism. His bio describes him as …

Connecting – Part 4: All spin of one kind or another

by Damien James | Dec 13, 2010

Connecting – Part 4: All spin of one kind or another

by Damien James | Dec 13, 2010

Errol Morris said at a Chicago Humanities Festival Q&A in 2006, on the iconography of Abu Ghraib, that human stupidity is one of the only things he really believes in, …

Connecting – Part 3: Ceci n’est pas une Twinkie

by Damien James | Dec 10, 2010

Connecting – Part 3: Ceci n’est pas une Twinkie

by Damien James | Dec 10, 2010

I asked Pamela Johnson about other people who had encountered the massive Girl Scout cookies or cheese and cracker Handi Snacks™, eager to know how they were received and processed …

Connecting – Part 2: Useful Junk

by Damien James | Dec 8, 2010

Connecting – Part 2: Useful Junk

by Damien James | Dec 8, 2010

Sometime in September of 2006, I came across the paintings of Pamela Michelle Johnson, vaguely oppressive canvases dominated by clouds of slate and steel gray, foregrounds indistinguishable from back, and expanses …

Connecting – Part 1: Art as Transportation

by Damien James | Dec 6, 2010

Connecting – Part 1: Art as Transportation

by Damien James | Dec 6, 2010

There have been times in my short life when I’ve had the good fortune to witness something new and amazing, from births to deaths and the exhausting amount of possibilities …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jan-Henri Booyens

by Georgia Kotretsos | Dec 3, 2010

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jan-Henri Booyens

by Georgia Kotretsos | Dec 3, 2010

Jan-Henri Booyens is a South African artist based in Pretoria, South Africa.  Jan holds a BFA in painting from the Durban Institute of Technology, in KwaZulu Natal. Since 2000, he …

Going to California: Gina Tuzzi, Part 2

by Victoria Gannon | Dec 2, 2010

Going to California: Gina Tuzzi, Part 2

by Victoria Gannon | Dec 2, 2010

Nostalgia is the longing for a home that never was; its subject is an idealized place where the troubles of today hold no sway. In paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Northern …

Flash Points

Under the Influence: Drugs, God and Politics in Self-Taught Art

by John Foster | Nov 29, 2010

Flash Points

Under the Influence: Drugs, God and Politics in Self-Taught Art

by John Foster | Nov 29, 2010

In 1974, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis launched the exhibition Naives and Visionaries, showcasing nine artists whose work manifested itself through artistic environments, both secretive and public. Martin Friedman …
Neil Young. "Neil Young," (Reprise Records, 1968). From the writer's collection.

Going to California: Gina Tuzzi

by Victoria Gannon | Nov 29, 2010

Going to California: Gina Tuzzi

by Victoria Gannon | Nov 29, 2010

It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and … all that seemed clear was that at some point we had aborted ourselves and …
M.A. Peers, Valentina. 1996 Oil on found sofa upholstery fabric (vinyl), foam stuffing 123 x 74 inches. Image via Rosamund Felsen Gallery.

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Whippet Good! M.A. Peers at the Pomona College Museum of Art

by Lily Simonson | Nov 26, 2010

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Whippet Good! M.A. Peers at the Pomona College Museum of Art

by Lily Simonson | Nov 26, 2010

During last week’s panel discussion in conjunction with M.A. Peers‘s exhibition at the Pomona College Museum of Art, Peers recalled a pivotal moment during her graduate studies.  Painter Linda Day told her …

Flash Points

Neuenschwander and Influence

by Meredith Malone | Nov 24, 2010

Flash Points

Neuenschwander and Influence

by Meredith Malone | Nov 24, 2010

Earlier this week, art historian Monica Amor lectured at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis on the topic of Neo-Concrete art in Brazil in …

“You Don’t Know” — Matt Connors at Canada Gallery

by Sarah Stephenson | Nov 18, 2010

“You Don’t Know” — Matt Connors at Canada Gallery

by Sarah Stephenson | Nov 18, 2010

Striped bathroom wallpaper, Cy Twombly, Imi Knoebel, and scribbles resembling Pop-like lineaments or cave markings are all evoked by Matt Connors work in his current exhibition at Canada Gallery. Red …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art Education and Influence

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 17, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art Education and Influence

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 17, 2010

How is art influenced? What role does art education play in how artists form works of art later in their career? Recently, when I posed these questions to colleagues (both …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Turner Blind Eye

by Ben Street | Nov 15, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Turner Blind Eye

by Ben Street | Nov 15, 2010

The Otolith Group ought to win this year’s Turner Prize, if their installation at Tate Britain is anything to go by, which it isn’t. Tate Britain’s press department must really …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

What More Can We Ask For?

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 3, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

What More Can We Ask For?

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 3, 2010

Students in my Advanced Placement class recently began a work for their portfolio inspired by the theme of loss. We spent a few days at the beginning of the unit …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Pesce Khete

by Georgia Kotretsos | Oct 29, 2010

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Pesce Khete

by Georgia Kotretsos | Oct 29, 2010

Pesce Khete is an Italian painter based primarily in Rome, Italy.  He has studied at the Classical Studies Department at the Liceo Ginnasio Torquato Tasso, later on at the Istituto …

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Interview with Derek Chan

by Martine Syms | Oct 26, 2010

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Interview with Derek Chan

by Martine Syms | Oct 26, 2010

Derek Chan and I have been friends for a little over four years. We both moved from Los Angeles to Chicago in the Fall of 2005. We had several mutual …

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Fixed Up

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 14, 2010

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Fixed Up

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 14, 2010

A hair was stuck in the main camera when Liza Minnelli first filmed Liza with a “Z” (1972), a supposedly live special for NBC. Minnelli and crew refilmed, using paid …

Calling from Canada

Calling From Canada: Kerry James Marshall at VAG

by Raji Sohal | Oct 11, 2010

Calling from Canada

Calling From Canada: Kerry James Marshall at VAG

by Raji Sohal | Oct 11, 2010

When I visit an exhibition for the first time, my attention is foremost on the work and how it has been curated. Soon after, I come to think about its …

On View Now

On View Now | Rock and Roll Fantasy: Yoshitomo Nara at the Asia Society

by Max Weintraub | Oct 7, 2010

On View Now

On View Now | Rock and Roll Fantasy: Yoshitomo Nara at the Asia Society

by Max Weintraub | Oct 7, 2010

For those who enjoy Yoshitomo Nara’s mischievousness characters and pop-culture inspired iconography, or those who are not yet familiar with them, the current show at the Asia Society in New …

Navel-Gazing: Jenni Rope & the Napa Enterprise

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 5, 2010

Navel-Gazing: Jenni Rope & the Napa Enterprise

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 5, 2010

“I enjoy working with drawing, painting and collage. My studio is full of little pieces of drawings, colour papers and different colour tapes. I find a piece of paper on …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Dutch Treat

by Ben Street | Oct 4, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Dutch Treat

by Ben Street | Oct 4, 2010

René Daniëls is a really, really good painter, maybe even a great painter, who stopped painting twenty-three years ago and has only resumed in the last two years. In 1987, he …

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Four for Fall

by Claudine Isé | Sep 28, 2010

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Four for Fall

by Claudine Isé | Sep 28, 2010

Traditionally, fall is the time when galleries launch their new slate of exhibitions after a relatively slow-paced couple of summer months. Galleries tend to highlight some of the most prominent …
Monica Majoli. Hanging Rubberman #1, 2006. Watercolor and gouache on paper. 123 x 51 in. Photo: Brian Forrest. Image via hammer.ucla.edu

Looking at Los Angeles

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Dark Undercurrents in the Hammer Contemporary Collection

by Lily Simonson | Sep 23, 2010

Looking at Los Angeles

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Dark Undercurrents in the Hammer Contemporary Collection

by Lily Simonson | Sep 23, 2010

Last week, Art21 treated Angelenos to the very first preview screening of William Kentridge: Anything is Possible at the Hammer Museum‘s Billy Wilder Theater.  As Art21’s executive director Susan Sollins …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Back in the Kitchen

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 17, 2010

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Back in the Kitchen

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 17, 2010

The Museum of Modern Art could not have picked a better moment to mount Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen, an exhibition about the changing aesthetics and politics of …

Oil on Canvas: Jenny Schade

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 16, 2010

Oil on Canvas: Jenny Schade

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 16, 2010

Jenny Schade thinks she was born in the wrong century. The 25-year-old Montreal-born artist has devoted herself fully to painting — pure oil-on-canvas painting. Her large works depict abstract landscapes …

On View Now

Tanzanian Reflections

by Max Weintraub | Sep 2, 2010

On View Now

Tanzanian Reflections

by Max Weintraub | Sep 2, 2010

It was an odd feeling going on my first-ever safari during my recent trip to Tanzania.  Odd because even though I had never been on one, I already had a …

3 Museums, 2 Days (part II of II)

by Thom Donovan | Aug 31, 2010

3 Museums, 2 Days (part II of II)

by Thom Donovan | Aug 31, 2010

II. After my visit to the New Museum, I headed uptown to the Studio Museum in Harlem. What stood out to me at the Studio Museum were a series of sculptural, photographic, …

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 9, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 9, 2010

In this week’s roundup, Alfredo Jaar and Andrea Zittell go natural, Bruce Nauman tries to get off the ground, Cai Guo-Qiang answers questions about the impact of social visibility in …
Relativity-escher

The Paradoxical Art of “Inception”

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 3, 2010

The Paradoxical Art of “Inception”

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 3, 2010

What is so compelling about riddles, mysteries, and puzzles?  Most people are fascinated by images and objects that are paradoxical or impossible in real life but look oddly convincing and …
Jenny Holtzer

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 2, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 2, 2010

Soon after last week’s roundup went live, I discovered a Jenny Holzer event happening in my backyard.  In this week’s roundup, CNN shows William Kentridge drawing apartheid, Scotland shows William …

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Summers at Ox-Bow

by Claudine Isé | Jul 27, 2010

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Summers at Ox-Bow

by Claudine Isé | Jul 27, 2010

We tend to spend a lot of time talking about art in terms of “work” nowadays, but we don’t always consider how important respite and retreat can be when it …

Why Here?

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 26, 2010

Why Here?

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 26, 2010

What does it mean to live and work as an artist in the South? It would be foolhardy to suggest there is a single, unified answer to this question. I …