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...
Aug 24, 2018 | Contemporary
When John Torreano began his talk about his exhibition, Dark Matters Without Time, on March 24, 2018 at Lesley Heller Gallery, he did so from behind a black curtain. Like a performer entering the stage, Torreano pushed the curtain aside and his head appeared. It...
Aug 4, 2018 | Contemporary
Kelli Scott Kelley, Orphaned Twins, 2009, Acrylic, paper, canvas, 48 x 30 inches When I told my partner I was thinking about writing a piece on Kelli Kelley’s work, he said: “You know, she is probably the perfect example of the nurturing free thinker – a real...
Jul 19, 2018 | Contemporary
Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2016. Acrylic paint on wallboard, wood veneer, and steel, 480 x 960 x 67 inches. University purchase, Art on Campus fund, Gary M. Sumers Recreation Center, 2016. Photo by Yvette Gellis. The soul of French painting in the 1860’s and 1870’s...
Jul 12, 2018 | Contemporary, Modern
William John Whittemore, Charles C. Curran, 1888/1889, oil on canvas, 17 x 21 inches Painted representations of palettes make me very happy. Artists can besmirch their carefully rendered image with blobs of gooey color as if it were an actual palette. Paint becomes a...
Jul 5, 2018 | Contemporary, Modern, Uncategorized
Maria Lassnig, Woman Laocoon (Woman Laocoön), 1976. Oil on canvas, 193 x 127 cm While researching paintings of snakes for a recent body of work, I was reminded of Maria Lassnig’s painting entitled Woman Laocoön, 1976. For nearly seventy years, Lassnig, an Austrian...
