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Painting is Undead: The Iconography of Anne Imhof, By Dil Hildebrand
...when performing actions they do so with zombie-like disaffection like flies stunned by a bug lamp, jerking sporadically into and out of states of repose.
Riad Miah on Amanda Church
If we were to think about the image in terms of language, it would be a noun or a verb.
Keiran Brennan Hinton on Michael Stamm
The thin screens of constructed space, which I wade through at a sluggish speed, feel like the layers of a person you're getting to know.
Andrew Fish on Henry Taylor
There’s an unabashed honesty in the way Henry Taylor paints a picture.
Tyrants and Artists: Elliott Green on Jenny Snider
This is an instructive demonstration of using the right shapes and shadows to conjure story and character to visualize the contents of psyche and soul.
Katharine Kuharic on the Pantheon - Part II Richard Dadd
The blade may be in front of the self-portrait of the axe man... but it serves to slice the man into numerous pieces.
Katharine Kuharic on the Pantheon - Part I Ivan Albright
In his mature works the portraits are literally portraits of the walking dead.
Melinda Stickney-Gibson on Susan Rothenberg
It's a curious thing to feel an immediate and unflagging connection and respect for a fellow painter's work
Mary Lucier on the Video Mysteries of Cecelia Condit
They depict a psychological violence resulting from a basic cold-heartedness in human nature.
Mark Greenwold on Jack Levine
Greenbergian Modernism... has put nails in the coffins of all sorts of serious and interesting representational artists for most of my lifetime.
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.