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This is pretty much via everywhere: C-Monster, Modern Art Notes, etc.,etc…but I’ll gladly hop on the bandwagon for Kerry James Marshall doing the awesome again. At SFMOMA.
Archive for February, 2009
Kerry James Marshall murals at SFMOMA
Posted in Painting on February 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Tim Kennedy at First Street Gallery
Posted in Painting, tagged First Street Gallery, Indiana University, Painting, Tim Kennedy on February 23, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Tim Kennedy: Perry Four at First Street Gallery in NY, March 3 – 28.
More of Tim’s work.
Update: Tim’s site.
2D or Not 2D
Posted in Painting, tagged Abstract Painting, Art, Bodil Nielsen, Danish Art, Leif Kath, Mille Guldbeck, Painting on February 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Leif Kath
Oh, those melancholy Danes. Despite the truly awful title, 2D or Not 2D: Danish Artists Flirt With Space (at the UCMO Gallery of Art & Design) is actually one of the better shows in the area right now. These are mostly smallish, shy paintings; some a little obtuse, some a little too pleasing. A little too [...]
Interview with Stephanie Pierce
Posted in Painting, tagged Arkansas, Art, Fayetteville, Maine, Painting, Portland, Stephanie Pierce on February 16, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Stephanie Pierce grew up in Memphis, TN, and has lived in Boston, MA, Asheville, NC, rural Tennessee, and Seattle, WA. Right now, she lives in Fayetteville, AR. Her paintings are currently showing in Sound and Vision: Circuit, Tube, and Prism, an exhibition at the Space Gallery in Portland, ME, which was curated by Gideon Bok. [...]
Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety and Myth
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Edvard Munch, Munch Painting, Painting on February 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth at the Chicago Art Institute, February 14-April 26, 2009. Roberta Smith’s Review.
Matthew Choberka: New Allegory
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Matthew Choberka, Painting, Utah on February 13, 2009 | 29 Comments »
Matthew Choberka: New Allegory at Central Utah Art Center, February 13-March 11, 2009. More Matthew Choberka.
UPDATE: Here’s a link to a flickr set that showing the installed exhibit.
High-hats all around (P.S. 1 / Film Co-op)
Posted in Not Painting on February 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
If anybody has any lingering doubts about the happening vs. happened status of experimental filmmaking, I believe P.S. 1 (and/or MoMA) is un-fogging the view: they’re kicking out the Film-makers’ Cooperative. They’re handing the space (a floor in a building in TriBeCa owned by legendary quasi-museum and, more recently, MoMA arm, P.S. 1) over to Alanna [...]
Leslie Laskey
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Bruno David Gallery, Leslie Laskey, Modernism, Painting, St. Louis MO on February 9, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Hinge III
Leslie Laskey (more here) was born in 1921. Lives and works in St. Louis. Laskey makes subtle investigative abstracts. The paint is thin, restrained—-yet the work gives the appearance of being the product of serious-minded, deep thought. One senses a certain conflict between the pleasure of the material and the will to make pure, immaterial painting. His work [...]
Polly Apfelbaum at the Kemper
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Kemper Museum of Art, Polly Apfelbaum on February 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Polly Apfelbaum: Split at the Kemper Museum of Art, February 6-August 9, 2009. More Polly Apfelbaum.
Placing Color Essay
Posted in Painting, tagged Art, Art Exhibit, Minnesota, Painting, Placing Color, Vittorio Colaizzi on February 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Hey, check out Vittorio Colaizzi’s (known to MWC old-timers as ‘vc’) essay from the travelling exhibit Placing Color. It’s dense, and beautiful. Here’s a quote: “… something else may have died with painting’s reinstatement in our radically permissive art world. This is the expectation that art should operate critically upon its own conventions, not in order [...]
