Copyright 2012 The New York Sun Tue, 22 May 2012 17:56:26 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Gallery-Going :: Stories from The New York Sun http://www.nysun.com/galleries admin@nysun.net (Seth Lipsky) webmaster@nysun.com en-us FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/quoth-the-sculpture-woof/87832/ Tue, 22 May 2012 12:39:38 EST Anne Arnold, a sculptor associated with the historic Tanager Gallery collective that included Alex Katz and Lois Dodd, is receiving her first solo exhibition in 24 years at Alexandre Gallery. "In a period when Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Pop Art and many other movements came and went, Arnold persisted down her own path, eventually defining a singular position in American sculpture," says the gallery. "While Arnold’s own early role in the development and wide acceptance of Pop is made... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/the-apotheosis-of-the-ben-day-dot/87825/ Fri, 18 May 2012 13:20:47 EST This week saw the opening of what the Art Institute of Chicago bills as the largest exhibition ever mounted of the works of Roy Lichtenstein. "Bringing together never-before-seen drawings, paintings, and sculpture, this exhibition presents the deepest exploration of Lichtenstein's signature style and its myriad applications across one of the most prolific careers in 20th-century art," said the museum. "The result is a dazzling array of color and dynamism, traversing art historical movements... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/energies-illustrated/87822/ Tue, 15 May 2012 09:38:25 EST Your reporter has admired the paintings of Barbara Takenaga since seeing them for the first time at the deCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA in 2007. The artist, who divides her time between New York City and Williamstown, MA, works up fields of dots into vertiginous, magnetic abstractions. Think Yayoi Kusama, but with less obsessive-compulsive disorder and more feeling for paint. Earlier this month, Takenaga's works went on display at a solo exhibition at Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/my-own-private-umbria/87818/ Fri, 11 May 2012 12:35:42 EST Time is running out for you to see the current exhibition of William Bailey's work at Betty Cuningham Gallery, which shows the artist exploring new possibilities in his elegant figuration. "In the current exhibition," says the gallery, "are two open courtyard paintings and three figure-in-landscape paintings, alongside five classic still life paintings for which he is best known. As is the case with all of Bailey’s paintings, his still-life, architecture and figure paintings are composed from... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/ronald-bladen-new-york-paintings-1955-1962/87783/ Fri, 4 May 2012 00:00:00 EST An exhibition of paintings by Ronald Bladen opened April 19 at Loretta Howard Gallery with a curious backstory. "A cache of some thirty-five canvases and panels was discovered behind a wall in his studio that Bladen built in 1978 to seal them from sight," according to the poet and critic Bill Berkson. "Long renowned as a minimal sculptor of great import, prior to 1963 Ronald Bladen was a painter," says Loretta Howard Gallery. "His heavily impastoed paintings were often constructed with masonry... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/the-golden-hour/87782/ Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 EST "It has been said that the Roman poet Virgil invented the evening because he used it to such lasting effect in his pastoral poems," says David Ligare on the occasion of his first solo exhibition at Hirschl & Adler Modern. "This threshold between day and night is often referred to as 'the golden hour.' I love the radical beauty of this late afternoon light with its attendant shadows because, despite its brightness, there is a melancholic edge to it, a reminder of mortality. Always low and at a... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/being-odd-getting-even/87778/ Fri, 6 Apr 2012 11:15:12 EST Joseph Beuys never saw this coming. “To be a teacher is my greatest work of art,” he said in 1969. “The rest is the waste product, a demonstration. If you want to express yourself you must present something tangible. But after a while this has only the function of a historic document. Objects aren’t very important any more.” So said the artist who in 1974 spent three days in a New York gallery swaddling himself in felt and hanging out with a live coyote. Yet one of his most successful students... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/castle-valley-hues/87774/ Tue, 3 Apr 2012 16:25:33 EST The usual program at David Hall Fine Art in Wellesley, Massachusetts is abstraction, but the proprietor makes an exception for an able landscape painter whose exhibition opened over the weekend. Adele Alsop was a student of Neil Welliver, Alex Katz, and Elaine de Kooning, each of whose influence can be felt in her work. There's Welliver's sense of care in the drawing, Katz's enjoyment of flatness, and de Kooning's painterly exuberance. Alsop's primary residence, in addition to the others in New... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/the-reappearing-nude/87767/ Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:59:24 EST This week Sotheby’s announced that it will auction a recently rediscovered painting by Tamara de Lempicka, an artist who worked up a mild form of Cubism into a major Art Deco shtick. That’s not to say that her paintings aren’t effective in their way. As period pieces, they’re triumphs. The work in question, Nu adossé I from 1925, is testament to de Lempicka’s ability to model form. The nude isn’t just sculptural, she’s built like the elegantly curved architecture of the same period. Everything... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/on-never-meeting-the-master/87762/ Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:49:43 EST Hilton Kramer and I never met, but I contribute regularly to the magazine he co-founded, The New Criterion, and I was saddened to learn that he died this morning. Every issue proclaims on its cover, “The New Criterion: A monthly review edited by Hilton Kramer & Roger Kimball.” To me, this is a reminder to look deeply into the art I have proposed to write about, and hone my prose until it is as sharp as a Japanese sword. I have developed an interest in a neglected group of modernists who admired... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/a-revel-in-rome-relived-in-rotterdam/87743/ Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:33:18 EST Maarten van Heemskerck is no longer considered a major painter, but his exhibition at the Museum Boijmans in Rotterdam displays the mechanisms by which an assuredly major painter, Michelangelo, made his presence felt across Europe. Van Heemskerck voyaged from Haarlem to Rome in 1532 and stayed for four or five years. During that time he developed a lifelong fascination with the Colosseum, which in his time had a grove sprouting from its top echelon. He also drew from the Sistine Ceiling... Franklin Einspruch http://www.nysun.com/arts/elegant-cages-of-stone/87732/ Tue, 6 Mar 2012 12:02:12 EST The technical marvels that are the works of Elizabeth Turk are on display at Hirschl & Adler Modern through the end of the month. "Elizabeth pushes beyond her own physical boundaries to explore the inherent beauty of marble’s intrinsic shape to create elegant, intricate and delicate pieces of work," says the gallery. "On average it takes Elizabeth one year to complete a sculptural piece. Elizabeth uses a variety of tools, including electric grinders, files and small dental tools, to transform... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/renoir-and-the-force-of-delicacy/87725/ Thu, 1 Mar 2012 22:32:43 EST Pierre-Auguste Renoir's nine-canvas exhibition at the Frick Collection is a redemption. Never have I seen a gathering of Renoirs present itself with such force. This is significant, because force wasn't Renoir's strong suit. Of all the painters of the late 19th century, the shortcomings and excesses of Impressionism appear most often in Renoir. His application of oils was more likely than that of his colleagues to look dissipated rather than diaphanous. Over time, his drawing and his color... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/around-the-chapel-of-light/87723/ Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:51:18 EST A series of ten bronzes by the great sculptor Anthony Caro goes on display this Thursday at Mitchell-Inness & Nash Uptown. "This series of ten works, made in 2011, relates to the artist’s recent landmark project for the Chapel of Light in the Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Bourbourg, France," according to the gallery. "To create works in this exhibition, Caro cast a group of maquettes for the Chapel in bronze, then expanded on these with rolled industrial bronze and brass as well as used shell... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/rubens-at-the-ringling/87715/ Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:40:40 EST A partnership between the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp has resulted in a newly opened exhibition of Peter Paul Rubens. "The exhibition features more than 100 magnificent paintings by and prints after Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), that together celebrate the legacy of one of the greatest artists of all time," says the Ringling. "In conjunction with the exhibition, the Ringling will host noted Rubens scholars for a two day symposium on the... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/the-resonance-of-objects/87710/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:58:45 EST Tomorrow evening in Los Angeles, an exhibition of new paintings by Tom Gregg will open at George Billis Gallery's West Coast location. "This most recent body of work is inspired by Tom Gregg's fascination with objects and the powerful resonance that they have in his world," says the gallery. "It is their association with the people who acquire them which gives power and energy to their presence." Says the artist, "It is the existence that they possess of their own, their own 'life' in the... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/gauguin-and-polynesia/87705/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:46:15 EST An exhibition of Paul Gauguin organized by Art Center Basel has opened at its one stop in the United States, the Seattle Art Museum. "Highlighting the complex relationship between Gauguin's work and the art and culture of Polynesia," according to the museum, it displays nearly 60 of the post-Impressionist master's paintings alongside "major examples of forceful Polynesian sculpture." "'Gauguin and Polynesia' traces Gauguin's journey from bourgeois stockbroker to full-time artist, while at the... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/things-left/87701/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:43:26 EST Figurative painter Erin Raedeke is having her first solo exhibition in New York City this month, and the works on display are impressive. "Erin Raedeke explores complex relationships by observing the detritus of everyday life," according to First Street Gallery. "In 'Things Left,' the still life becomes a vehicle for grappling with unresolved thoughts and memories. The viewer enters the paintings as if they were entering a play mid-scene. The elusive plot is not unlike the subconscious... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/renoir-full-on-at-the-frick/87696/ Wed, 8 Feb 2012 08:19:27 EST An exhibition opened yesterday at The Frick Collection that studies Pierre-Auguste Renoir's uses of the full-length portrait format - all nine of them. "This is the first comprehensive study of the artist's engagement with the full-length format," according to the museum. "The format was associated with the official Paris Salon from the mid-1870s to mid-1880s, the decade that saw the emergence of a fully fledged Impressionist aesthetic. "The project was inspired by Renoir's La Promenade of... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/johann-zoffany-ra-society-observed/87689/ Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:15:24 EST The Yale Center for British Art has set out to rehabilitate the reputation of Johann Zoffany, a German expatriate who became a member of the Royal Academy by appointment of King George III. One might argue that he isn’t better-known for fair reasons. His work is present in few American collections, he altered the spelling of his name several times, and his peripatetic life bewildered later chroniclers of English painting. His contemporaries included Thomas Gainsborough and William Hogarth, and... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/immersion-in-painting/87687/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:03:34 EST Bill Scott’s paintings have an atmosphere of ease, but consideration and reconsideration of beautiful form churn within them. Two or Three Nudes in a Landscape (2010) summarizes Scott’s endeavor, its delightful title alluding to an image that somehow is richly descriptive while in fact depicting nothing. Maybe a white-over-blue passage turns into a patch of sky, and the lollipop shapes become trees, but that’s as specific as it gets. The rest of the painting consists of colors that you would... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/the-enchanted-landscape/87678/ Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:25:28 EST Start making your travel arrangements. One week from today will see the opening of a monographic exhibition of Claude Lorrain at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. “'Claude Lorrain: The Enchanted Landscape' presents about one hundred and thirty works from all phases of the important French Baroque artist’s production,” according to the museum. “Based on the most recent results of scientific research, the comprehensive exhibition comprises a high-caliber selection of paintings as well as Claude... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/fifty-vellums/87675/ Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:43:08 EST "The vellum support has been a perfect choice," explains Tad Wiley regarding his current exhibition, "in that its smooth surface allows the paint to sit right up on top. However the surface is not without 'tooth', which traps the more thinned out color in a way reminiscent of the application of tusche on a lithography stone. The translucent cast allows overspills to creep around the back surface and appear on the front in a 'ghosting' fashion." George Lawson Gallery in Culver City, which is... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/tactility-as-mysticism/87651/ Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:11:07 EST According to Margaret Thatcher Projects, “From the beginning of his attraction to abstract painting, an interest in its sensed metaphysical content guided and influenced Robert Sagerman,” who holds a PhD in Hebrew and Judaic Studies from New York University, and whose paintings are on exhibit at the gallery. “As with any meditative process, his work appears deceptively simple: thickened oil paint is applied, one stroke at a time with a palette knife, in soft peaks to a canvas over a period of... Last Chance to see "Last Paintings" http://www.nysun.com/arts/joan-mitchell-becomes-the-sunflower/87633/ Wed, 4 Jan 2012 08:26:01 EST "Joan Mitchell: The Last Paintings" closes today at Cheim and Read. The exhibition focuses on paintings she made from 1985 until her death in 1992. "Though Mitchell abstracted nature, gleaning only its essence, her advocacy for the natural world as a subject finds precedence in the plein air and Impressionist painters a century before," according to the gallery. "As Richard D. Marshall elucidates in his essay, Mitchell admired Cézanne, Monet and Van Gogh; their interpretations of the same... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/the-indefatigable-abstractionist/87617/ Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:48:18 EST A serious segment of the art world looked forward to the exhibition at Elizabeth Harris Gallery of paintings by Pat Passlof that opened November 19. The New York Times had just profiled her in October, detailing her efforts to maintain herself and her studio practice in a former synagogue on the Lower East Side. Having survived her husband, the painter Milton Resnick, by seven years, she continued to paint large-scale abstractions with a nervous but knowing touch. Passlof died a few days before... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/an-old-expressionist/87608/ Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:55:11 EST "George McNeil (1908-1995) had a career that spanned the entire postwar American art era," according to Ameringer McEnery Yohe, which is exhibiting a selection of the artist's work dating from 1957 to 1969. "McNeil attended Pratt Institute and the Art Students’ League, where he studied with Jan Matulka," says the gallery. "From 1932-36, he studied with Hans Hofmann, assisting as Hofmann's studio classroom monitor. In 1936 he worked for the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project and... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/an-art-of-balance/87601/ Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:37:54 EST Today and tomorrow will be your last chances to see "Matisse and the Model" at Eykyn Maclean. "As Matisse noted in 1939," says the gallery, "he relied on his models to help him find expression for his shifting creative vision, and he looked upon them as partners in his work. Whether exploring the tensions between abstraction and figuration, fact and fantasy, other and self, his devotion to the human figure was a constant theme." The catalog essay was penned by no less than Hilary Spurling, the... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/liquid-on-stone/87567/ Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:17:41 EST Wendy Artin's life-size watercolor interpretations of the Elgin Marbles are such extraordinary technical feats that my initial reaction to them, as a lesser practitioner of the medium, was gut-sinking envy. Typically, for this degree of realism, one would begin with a preparatory sketch in pencil. Artin dives in with watercolor on damp paper, corralling pools of pigment with a brush and a rag until they give her the shape she wants. If you're unfamiliar with the materials, imagine trying to... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/a-lemon-and-an-orange-side-by-side/87551/ Fri, 4 Nov 2011 09:07:09 EST "Best known as the co-founder of Cubism with Pablo Picasso and as the inventor of the papier collé technique, Georges Braque’s legacy is better understood in the context of his lasting influence on artists for the past century," says William Acquavella, whose gallery is showing an important exhibition of Braque through November. “The purpose of this retrospective is to present the artist not only as the cocreator of Fauvism and Cubism but also as a profoundly passionate, progressive and... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/fte-champtre/87521/ Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:45:16 EST This evening there will be an opening reception at Denise Bibro Fine Art for an exhibition of new works by Audrey Ushenko, a widely exhibited member of the National Academy of Art in New York City. "As the title suggests, Ushenko’s uniquely rendered canvases of luxuriously composed still life and social gatherings have the air of an extravagant garden party or celebration," says the gallery. "Often, Ushenko takes liberties, twisting the compositions by juxtaposing people, creatures and objects... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/a-hearts-hot-shell/87509/ Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:16:45 EST RARE Gallery is displaying the transluscent, evocative paintings of Aaron Holz through Thursday of this week in an exhibition entitled "A Heart's Hot Shell." According to the gallery, "The title of the exhibition is taken from Chapter 41 of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick, which references Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for the great white whale in the following sentence: 'He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/paths-of-the-sun/87490/ Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:58:35 EST The current exhibition of Graham Nickson at Knoedler & Company brings together three bodies of the artist's work, according to the gallery. "The first, a group of early oils composed with frames hand-painted by the artist, most created in the environs of Rome, was begun shortly after Nickson’s arrival there as a recipient of the 1972 Rome Prize. It was in Italy that sunrises and sunsets first became major themes in his work, and the small format landscapes he painted, some of which are grouped... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/an-art-fair-for-the-artists/87488/ Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:26:11 EST The colossal success of Art Basel Miami Beach in 2002 caused a proliferation of art fairs over the years, and together they have permanently altered the way art is bought and sold. Many of these fairs struggle not to become duplicates of one another. The novice fairgoer must puzzle to select between one or two dozen fairs that descend on a city during a fairgoing weekend, each sporting one- and two-syllable names, gallerina-staffed cubicles full of art, and aspirations to perfect... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/lights-in-the-expanse-of-the-heavens/87483/ Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:11:40 EST Danish artist Maja Lisa Engelhardt is showing her interpretive landscapes, all entitled The Fourth Day, in an exhibition that opened last Thursday at Elizabeth Harris Gallery. "In view of my painterly way of expressing myself, The Fourth Day is a rare source of inspiration," says Engelhardt. "Light and darkness are present. The pictorial universe can unfold on all planes and at all depths, without foreground and without background; there is no left or right in the sky, no up or down; the vault... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/a-decade-long-day/87477/ Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:52:37 EST "9/11 did not end on 9/11. For American soldiers, 9/11 has been a decade-long day," says James Panero, noted art critic, Managing Editor of The New Criterion, and curator of "The Joe Bonham Project," currently on display at Storefront. "As of this summer, over 44,000 troops have been wounded in conflicts following the attacks of September 11. Over 1,300 of them have undergone partial or full amputations. 'The Joe Bonham Project' represents the efforts of wartime illustrators to document their... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/interesting-for-no-good-reason/87470/ Fri, 2 Sep 2011 17:13:34 EST The name of Lois Dodd has come up a few times in recent conversations with artists I respect. I finally got to see some of her work in person at a solo exhibition at Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland, Maine. I was expecting the sort of painter’s-painter painting in which the very brushstrokes inspire admiration. Instead I found a picture of the Statue of Liberty working at an easel plein-aire. Read the whole article at Artcritical. "Lois Dodd: Naked Ladies, Natural Disasters, and Puzzling Events... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/paintings-that-shouldnt-work/87444/ Thu, 4 Aug 2011 13:22:21 EST Imagine if you could speak several languages, switching from one to another to suit your thoughts, inside of a single sentence. You might begin in English for the sake of clarity, then change to Chinese for an apt metaphor, then over to French for color and texture, then to Italian for a bit of structure. Elisabeth Condon can do this, in paint. Hello, Yellow (2010), a four-foot-wide canvas built around pourings of lemon, gold, and umber, evokes the history of stained abstraction, Frankenthaler... ERIC GELBER http://www.nysun.com/arts/jane-fine-in-melt-at-the-tang/87437/ Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:51:21 EST Jane Fine’s Battlefield IV, (2004) is one of several striking works currently on view in MELT, at Skidmore’s Tang Art Museum, in Saratoga Springs, New York (Bernard Cohen, Salvador Dali, Mary Frank, Rico Lebrun, Charles Long, Alexander Ross, Dieter Roth, Frances Simches, Davor Vrankic, and Kevin Wolff are the other artists on view, some represented by prints in the museum’s permanent collection.) This group exhibition, organized by Tang Associate Curator Rachel Seligman, is based on a somewhat... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/krazy-as-muse/87432/ Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:47:36 EST Conventional wisdom about Abstract Expressionism holds that it is concerned with pure essence of painting, excluding all content, referring only to its heroic self. As a practitioner, it’s a different story. One doesn’t worry about purity. One casts one’s line in the creative waters and tries not to complain about the species of fish that comes up as long as it’s edible. The process entails more humility than heroism, more idle musing than grand inspiration. Walter Darby Bannard’s work took a... DAVID COHEN. http://www.nysun.com/arts/portraits-of-a-floating-world/87424/ Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:37:21 EST Joan Marie Kelly, an American painter who lives and teaches in Singapore, opens a show of paintings Thursday night at New York’s Blue Mountain Gallery that defy expectations. She works strictly from the motif in a realist idiom, but she is drawn to socially and economically complex intersections of humanity that range from monastic communities to the red light districts of various Asian cities. The cover painting, depicting a scene in Singapore’s Little India, is titled “Zone of Contact.” For... David Cohen http://www.nysun.com/arts/separating-the-goats-from-the-sheep/87403/ Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:05:37 EST Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park has a group of new sculptures at its north-east entrance plaza. The two goats and a deer, works by young Scottish artist Ruth McKerrell (born 1983), inaugurate a significant annual prize for New York, the Clare Weiss Emerging Artist Award. Clare Weiss was a pioneering, dynamic curator of public art at New York City’s Department of Parks and Recreation, a position she held from 2005-2009. Shortly after she arrived at her job Ms Weiss was diagnosed with the cancer that... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/driven-to-abstraction/87384/ Thu, 9 Jun 2011 10:41:37 EST A reception opens at 6 PM this evening at Von Lintel Gallery for "a group show of eight contemporary abstract artists who represent a diverse range of entry points into abstraction," according to the gallery. The artists included are Andrea Belag, Lisa Corinne Davis, Amy Ellingson, Catherine Howe, Rebecca Smith, Dannielle Tegeder, Canan Tolon, and Carrie Yamaoka. "Driven to Abstraction" runs through July 23 at Von Lintel Gallery, 520 West 23rd Street, between 10th and 11th avenues, ground... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/late-spring/87381/ Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:04:28 EST Leon Kossoff’s paintings at Mitchell-Innes & Nash show the octogenarian British painter continuing to work in portraiture and landscape, with a brush loaded with oils as if they were tar, favoring a palette based on a sooty, British gray. In that, there has hardly been any change in his work for decades. But comparing these works to those in the gallery in 2009, which were from the period 1957 to 1967, one can see a brightening. He has admitted green into the paintings, a verdancy unmixed with... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/caros-authority/87377/ Fri, 3 Jun 2011 11:46:41 EST A couple of weeks ago your author noted that appreciation of the painter Jules Olitski has largely been conducted as a proxy war against the critic Clement Greenberg. You may have witnessed related hostilities in late April, when Ken Johnson wrote about "Anthony Caro on the Roof" at the Metropolitan Museum for the New York Times. "The authoritarian, arch-formalist critic Clement Greenberg was an admirer, friend and studio consultant," he remarked. "You wonder if the influences of friends like... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/color-and-consequence/87370/ Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:56:01 EST Wolf Kahn, the celebrated landscape painter, has an exhibition of new work opening tomorrow evening at Ameringer McEnery Yohe. "The new paintings gathered in this exhibition continue to address elemental questions of space, shape and color with rigor and understated sophistication," writes Christina Kee for the gallery. "They are at once ambitious, compelling and complex. This past year, Kahn has worked primarily from landscapes in the Vermont area, and this show gathers works of four distinct... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/compelled-by-pictorial-truth/87367/ Fri, 27 May 2011 10:58:12 EST Yesterday, four solo exhibitions began at John Davis Gallery in Hudson. Notable among them is a display of new work by David Hornung, who writes, "These recent pictures, all made with gouache on handmade paper, were completed in the winter and spring of 2010-2011. As usual, they depict scenes from around my home in the Catskills. My usual working method is to create loose sketches from memory and imagination and then translate them into paintings. "The paintings in this exhibition, although... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/maine-as-muse/87362/ Wed, 25 May 2011 14:56:43 EST "The craggy coastline and pristine woodlands of Maine have drawn artists to the northeast corner of the country for centuries," says Lohin Geduld gallery, whose exhibition, "Maine as Muse," starts today and opens tomorrow evening, 5-7 PM. "A rich lineage of artists, stretching from Winslow Homer and Marsden Hartley to the present day, have found inspiration in the clear light, rugged landscape, and independently-minded people of Maine. This exhibition explores Maine as a haven of creativity and... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/a-few-gestures-are-all-that-is-needed/87358/ Mon, 23 May 2011 10:49:06 EST "Two artists in the same house make for a lot of regression," writes George Negroponte, whose solo exhibition upstairs at Kouros Gallery accompanies that of his wife, Virva Hinnemo, downstairs. "To some it may look predictably poetic, like two fried eggs. In reality it’s more of a tussle than you might imagine because energy moves unevenly through the veils of creativity. A room of two can get crowded when the audience is constantly standing by. But the dividends can be substantial. Good days... FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH http://www.nysun.com/arts/leah-durners-naked-color/87356/ Fri, 20 May 2011 10:55:23 EST Tomorrow, 571 Projects will host a conversation between critic David Cohen and artist Leah Durner, whose abstract paintings are the subject of "Naked Color" at the gallery. Cohen, who produces Artcritical, has written of Durner, "[she] is an action painter in the sense that we are constantly aware in her work of a primal moment, a coming into being. Looseness, to the point of teetering on the edge of chaos, is omnipresent, often trumping resolve." According to the gallery, "Leah Durner’s newest...