4/10/22 4/10/22

Lara Allen on Anselm Kiefer's 'Die Ordnung der Engel'

It once hung in the Chicago Art Institute but now is a blurry electrical field full of crackles and pops behind my eyes.

11/22/20 11/22/20

Elizabeth Johnson on Celia Reisman

Her aloof houses are challenging, seem to have their backs turned to me, the viewer, and transform me into an interloper.

5/28/20 5/28/20

Ellen Harvey on the Disappointed Tourist | Art in Isolation

It was intended as an exploration of nostalgia, to create a conversation across many different types of loss.

5/21/20 5/21/20

Judy Glantzman on Obituaries and Shadows | Art in Isolation

I have been painting portraits from obituaries on poured plaster/acrylic plaques since the pandemic began.

2/26/20 2/26/20

Norm Paris on Max Ernst

This is a portrait of a culture in the late stages of psychic rot.

12/5/19 12/5/19

Mariel Herring on Chuta Kimura

Imagine if de Kooning and Matisse painted a landscape together, and maybe Bonnard was their professor/mentor? That’s ya boi Kimura.

7/1/19 7/1/19

Ruth Marten on Paul Caranicas

He’s condensed a mall into a theatre set, flattening the rich detail into a sort of Greek chorus to serve the dumb central gun shop.

12/29/18 12/29/18

Constance Mallinson on Manet's and von Werefkin's Ragpickers

Few previous painters were capable of challenging and disturbing the consumerist mentality and self-satisfaction of the middle class and the economic and social systems that sustained them.

12/18/18 12/18/18

Wendy Letven on Simona Prives

The alchemy of using a fragment of a scan of parsley to represent a forest was a revelation.

12/10/18 12/10/18

Laurie Hogin on Grant Wood

The readmission of artists like Grant Wood into high art discourses may open the door to many more types of representation, inclusive of many more places, lives, and subjectivities.

10/6/18 10/6/18

Dear Weather: Buzz Spector on Hobbema, Gainsbourough, & Vermeer

Little popcorn puffs or higher, more distant, cirrus... a shorthand for how the duration of a painting allows for some time.

8/14/18 8/14/18

Raoul Middleman on Paul Cezanne

There is almost a metaphysical postponement of finish throughout these portraits, a hesitation as if waiting for an informant of the future to complete them.