Archives: Contemporary
Azita Moradkhani on Louise Bourgeois
The tension between the bodies of mother and child builds up until the moment of physical separation with the delivery of a new entity in the world. Bourgeois depicts that moment using transparent skins of juicy crimson.
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.
Lavar Munroe on Folkert De Jong and Expansive Painting
Evidence of deconstructing form and then “healing” those breaks was apparent in the yellow and pink adhesive substrates bleeding through the crevasses of incisions.
Wendy Letven on Simona Prives
The alchemy of using a fragment of a scan of parsley to represent a forest was a revelation.
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.
Eric Fischl on Max Beckmann’s Departure
The woman and man are eternally bound in a psychopathologically perverse interpretation of yin and yang.
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.
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.
Michael Torlen on John Torreano
“Less is less, and more is more. No more, no less.”
John Michael Byrd on Kelli Scott Kelley
To my eyes, this is a love letter to the maternal archetype—the maternal ideal.
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.
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.