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Robert Roy
To my eyes, everything is worth contemplating; I love painting and I love life. I am sort of driven by passion. Sometimes I think I am like a conductor, my brushstrokes are like baton strokes. I want to make them vigorous enough to shape the painting as if it were a rich and joyous texturized […]
Katja Granzin
A good picture doesn’t have to be perfect, it says something. katja-granzin.com
Rebuilding Subliminal Models: the work of Malcolm Morley
Malcolm Morley’s paintings share a connection with Pop Art—but he isn’t a Pop Artist. He created his work using methods similar to the Photorealists—but he isn’t one of those either. The artist just does not fit into any one particular genealogy; this connection to Photorealism, or Superrealism—as he named it—was discarded by the artist in […]
Exhilarated Despair: Phaidon Focus on Francis Bacon
Who is Francis Bacon? A new book from Phaidon aims to answer the entirety of that question in a chatty 120+ page book. Part of a new series, Phaidon Focus, each book revolves around the life of a “renowned modern master” (other titles cover Louise Bourgeois, Donald Judd, Henry Matisse, Cy Twombly and more). It […]
Hubertus Gojowczyck at Moeller Fine Art
“One senses in Gojowzcyk’s works that they are not exhausted in witty invention. Something higher, something spiritual, is always part of his ‘foolish game of Nothingness,’ though we may not be able to say precisely what it is. It is scarcely more than ephemeral vapor. Everything about Gojowczyk’s work is imbued with humanity,” art historian […]
The Machine and the Ghost: John O’Connor at Pierogi Gallery
Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of Chaos Theory, in his unfinished memoir told the story of when, during the early 1960s, he walked past a classroom at Harvard University and noticed a fellow-professor drawing a near-identical diagram to the one he’d recently landed upon in the course of his groundbreaking research. Possessive of his discovery, Mandelbrot […]
Remebering Guglielmo Achille Cavellini at Lynch Tham Gallery
Entering LYNCH THAM gallery and looking at the show of Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, I could not help it but imagining the tall, thin, slightly bent but all the same elegant old man I met in 1989. It was the year before his death and his son Piero, a dealer, had put together a wonderful, small […]
Antithesis Group Show at The Active Space
Featuring: Alejandro Almanza, Constance Armellino, Williamson Brasfield, Ashley Carter, Donna Cleary, Christian Dietkus, Chris Domenick, Leah Dixon, Allison Kuo, Ryan Lauderdale, Chris Martino, Jennifer McDermott, Andrea McGinty, Irvin Morazan, Kenya Robinson, Jacob Williams Antithesis proposes a counterpoint to the academic thesis show, which has traditionally served as a right of passage into the esteemed arena […]
Richard Garrison at Robert Henry Contemporary
Repackaged is a continuation of Richard Garrison’s analysis of ubiquitous materials, objects and places from the suburban, often consumer related, American landscape, such as Sunday newspaper sale circulars, parking lot colors, product packaging, Disney World and Wal-mart, among others. Garrison’s recontextualization of aspects of consumer culture affords us a new perspective on commonplace objects, places […]
Yesterday’s Sun by Uri Gershuni from Sternthal Books
The haunting photographs in Uri Gershuni’s latest book Yesterday’s Sun pit contemporaneity against nostalgia in creating a series of images that not only capture lost moments in time, but also give the same urgency to the present day. Gershuni follows in the footsteps of William Henry Fox Talbot, one of photography’s pioneers, recapturing his estate […]
