Jan 10, 2019 | Contemporary
Folkert De Jong, The New Deal, 2012, Styrofoam, pigmented polyurethane foam and pallet What constitutes a painting? Is it possible to create a “painting” that occupies space, has actual volume and is made with unconventional materials? These questions point to an...
Dec 18, 2018 | Contemporary
Simona Prives, Black Matter, 2018, Sumi ink, monotype and collage with xerox transfer and watercolor, 70 x 44 inches Simona Prives creates images that describe shifting, changing imaginary worlds inhabited by human beings and all their detritus. From a distance, one...
Dec 10, 2018 | Contemporary
Grant Wood, Young Corn, 1931, Oil on canvas, 24 x 29 7/8 inches Regionalism. The wide-open air that settles on the Midwestern agoras is heavy with the sticky oppressions of cultural stillness, corrupt power structures, and close, stifling folkways. Urbanism. The...
Oct 23, 2018 | Contemporary, Modern
This essay was first published in the exhibition catalogue for Max Beckmann in Exile at the Guggenheim Museum in SoHo, New York on October 9, 1996. Max Beckmann, Departure,1932, Oil on canvas, Side panels 7′ 3/4″ x 39 1/4″, center panel 7′...
Sep 12, 2018 | Contemporary
Anthony Cudahy, Bruegel, 2018, Gouache on paper, 11 x 8.5 inches Rifling through someone else’s studio is complete fun. I always feel like a detective trying to find the impetus for an artist’s creativity. I recently had the pleasure of visiting Anthony Cudahy’s...
Sep 4, 2018 | Contemporary, Modern
Jo Baer, H. Arcuata, 1971, Oil on canvas, 56 x 244 x 10cm, Daimler Kunst Sammlung, Stuttgart/Berlin I remember the first time I saw Jo Baer’s painting ‘H. Arcuata’. It wasn’t at a museum or gallery; it was the same kind of encounter I had with most art that hit me as...
