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Marie Peter-Toltz on Gerard Garouste
Beauty disguises her devilry; she represents the other half of hell.
A Call to Action: Kelli Scott Kelley on Julie Heffernan
The bare-breasted heroine, the apparent caretaker of the heap, wielding a chainsaw...
Samuel Jablon on Mike Cloud
Like a sinister joke, or a self-destructive one, the work makes us laugh and question why we’re laughing.
Barkley Hendricks on Louis Sloan
I learned a great deal from Mr. Sloan when I was a student of his at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
Joan Waltemath on Zen and the Art of Billy Al Bengston
“Stud”, an exhibition of Billy Al Bengston’s paintings at Venus over Manhattan Gallery this past November, afforded a unique opportunity to see the legendary West Coast painter in New York City. It is clearly a special moment for an artist.
Wells Chandler on Katherine Bradford
I'm convinced that it's Katherine in her astral body feeling good about working her ass off in the studio.
Gabrielle Vitollo on Hacking the Biological: Post-gender and the Catharsis of Anish Kapoor’s 'Internal Object' Paintings
I found myself immersed in what I considered a psychological space, loaded with ideas of carnage, political violence, and the body...
Melissa Meyer Remembers Jean Dubuffet at the Jeu de Paume, 1991
These paintings by Dubuffet are currently up at Pace Gallery!
Ken Buhler on Andrew Pfriender
One wintry Sunday afternoon in the mid-1980’s, some friends and I piled into a car and headed up Rte. 17 into the Catskill Mountains. In a couple of hours, we exited at Loch Sheldrake, NY, and found our way to a rural mobile home belonging to Andrew Pfriender, aka Grandpa Pfriender.
Margaret Grimes on Ruth Miller
The still life paintings of Ruth Miller are at first glance deceptively modest. On closer viewing however, they have a compelling power comparable to a gravitational pull.
Joyce Kozloff on Miriam Schapiro
Among Miriam Schapiro’s works, the black paintings are my favorites. Although she often used color ecstatically, I never felt it came to her easily.
Virginia Wagner on Doron Langberg
We know that, under those rough, hasty marks, the scene exists in all of the intricacies of life.
Peter Saul on Paul Cadmus
Paul Cadmus’ Coney Island was the first picture I ever saw, in 1939 when I was 5 years old.
Phyllis Bramson on Henry Darger
Henry Darger is a self-taught artist whose life's work was discovered in his Chicago apartment in the months before his death in 1973.
Joan Semmel on Lisa Yuskavage
Young women’s yearning to regain their lost childhood without losing the sexual freedoms gained in the new independence is perfectly symbolized in Yuskavage’s images.
Martha Edelheit on Georgia O'Keeffe: A Reminiscence
It's 1965. I'm daydreaming in my studio about all the famous, inaccessible artists alive in the world. I think of Georgia O'Keeffe.
Jason Mones on Leon Golub
I had the honor of joining Leon Golub and Nancy Spero to preview a Max Beckman show one evening in 2003. Leon needed help physically getting around at this point in his life and I was honored to lend him a shoulder to lean on.