Archives: Contemporary
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
The snow would be waist high and the temperature freezing or below. Lou would be Eskimo-like…