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.

11/23/19 11/23/19

Lydia Pettit on Henry Taylor's "I became . . ."

Overall there was chaos in his figure, strokes sometimes lining up with the form, and sometimes going against the logic of the body.

10/23/19 10/23/19

Patrick McDonough on Benjamin Edwards

Entering the studio with “Justin” was an unforgettable kind of magic, like passing through a Super Nintendo game portal where the colors and the physics forever change.

10/13/19 10/13/19

Barry Nemett on Robert Rauschenberg

All looked pleasant enough near the foot but, like a dramatic plot twist, everything closer to the bed’s head looked war-torn, tortured.

7/14/19 7/14/19

Jessica Stoller on the Sévres Breast Bowl

The dairy she created allowed her to demonstrate her political agency while intertwining ideas related to femininity, nature and health.

2/5/19 2/5/19

Julie Heffernan on El Greco

El Greco emphasizes this theme of separation—head from body, conceptual realm from sensorial realm, upper half from lower half, white from black.

1/23/19 1/23/19

Brenda Goodman on Her Work in Stages

There is something about feeling that rightness of a painting when I’m 75 that feels so very satisfying.

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.

9/12/18 9/12/18

Aaron Zulpo on Anthony Cudahy

One man is found pulling leaves from a stem, as if counting down time. Another man stares longingly at a pile of petals.

9/4/18 9/4/18

Brian Alfred on Jo Baer

Its minimal linear elements raced around the side of the canvas and played with my expectations of where paint would normally be.

8/24/18 8/24/18

Michael Torlen on John Torreano

“Less is less, and more is more. No more, no less.”

8/4/18 8/4/18

John Michael Byrd on Kelli Scott Kelley

To my eyes, this is a love letter to the maternal archetype—the maternal ideal.

7/19/18 7/19/18

Yvette Gellis on Katharina Grosse

Then there is the color itself - the purity of color and the psychological effects that pure color can have not only on the eye, but also on one’s emotional states and well-being.

7/12/18 7/12/18

David Humphrey on William John Whittemore

I like thinking, though, that the painting makes a complete body out of dispersed heterogeneous parts, a complicated body constrained and subdivided by guardrails, pedestals, canvas edges, bowler hats and neckties.