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...
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...
