Structure and Imagery

Next in our In Process series is Brooklyn based painter, Matthew Neil Gehring. Gehring is also the Art Department Chair at the Suffolk County Community College and is the Director of the school's Flecker Gallery in Selden, NY. Gehring's use of color and form combine to produce a visual deception bordering on Op Art.  However, these works offer more than visual trickery and reveal themselves over time. The hierarchy created by color and form generates a stately presence more akin to Barnet Newman than Bridget Riley. Here Gehring gives a look at the evolution of his recent painting, And the Vital Vigor Stood it's Ground , oil on linen, 90 x 78 in., 2013. "This painting was stretched in Nov. 2012 with the awareness that it would leave the studio for my upcoming solo exhibition at the Dishman Art Museum in Beaumont, TX.  The evolution is improvisational with decisions regarding colors and forms as primary, inseparable elements.  These d...

From the Press Release : This spring Gallery Art Forum Ute Barth presents a group exhibition featuring Kevin Finklea (*1958, lives and works in Philadelphia, USA), Lucia Coray (*1957, lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland) and Iryna Pryval (*1987, lives and works in Nuremberg and Munich); artists who share a commitment to both serial and pictorial strategies as the basis of their distinctive individual practices. Seriality, among the  most revolutionary techniques of modern art to emerge in the early twentieth century with the painting of Monet, has since been used as an apparatus for the critique of conventional visual expression, methods, materials, compositional schemes, and even the politics of seeing and image. This exhibition focuses on pictorial seriality in the work of three contemporary artists, to highlight the diversity and profundity of work centered on the act of repetition as a stylistic, and hence political device, today. The manifestation of repetition a...

In the 1950's Art News ran it's popular "Paints a Picture" feature. This fun and enlightening series showcased the innovative and important painters of the day (Hofmann, Mitchell, Tworkov, De Kooning, etc.) and chronicled the evolution of a single work by placing a camera in the artist's studio and having the painter snap a photo at crucial points during the development of the piece. I thought it would be a great idea to continue the series, focusing on process oriented painters, showcasing the talent, hard work and the decision making that goes into each painting.  In this series I will feature a different painter once or twice a month giving insight into their art making, thinking process, and personalities. The first painter in our series is Deborah Brown . Deborah is an accomplished painter who's works explore the industrial landscape of car salvage lots, scrap metal yards and fabrication shops in Bushwick, the neighborhood where she has worked ...

Robin Greenwood spoke with  Frank Bowling on the occasion of an exhibition of his poured paintings at Tate Britain, which runs until March 2013. Bowling discusses his move away from figuration, his relation to American art, his adoption of abstraction, and his attitude to symbol, amongst other things. Perhaps of particular interest are Bowling’s comments on his ‘interest in architecture and sculpture’, and insistence that painting by ‘specific’ and exist as an ‘object’. View the video here  on Abstract Critical . Bowling's current exhibit @ Spanierman Modern runs through April 28, 2013.

Jane Freilicher: Painter Among Poets Opening Reception: Saturday April 13, 4 - 6 PM April 13 - June 14, 2013 Tibor de Nagy 724 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10019

Upright , 2012, acrylic on canvas, 74 x 53 in. (image courtesy of the artist and Spanierman Modern) Frank Bowling : Paintings, 1967 - 2012 March 21 - April 20, 2013 Spanierman Modern 53 East 58th Street New York, NY 10022 * More upcoming Bowling events . . . . Frank Bowling in the Larry Rivers Symposium at New York University Fales Library The Symposium will celebrate the acquisition, processing, and opening of the Larry Rivers Papers for study and research at New York University's Fales Library & Special Collections.  On March 29, from 9am to 10 am. Frank Bowling, Barbara Goldsmith, David Joel, and David Levy with Helen Harrison as moderator, will address Rivers's importance as a visual artist. Frank Bowling Gallery Talk at the Philadelphia Museum of Art On April 3, 2013at 6:30 pm, Frank Bowling will give a gallery talk about his life and work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  

Matthew Fisher, Goldens Bridge, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 15 x 16 in. Chiaroscuro A group show curated by JJ Manford and Steve Rivera Featuring work by : Gina Beavers, Katherine Bernhardt, Katherine Bradford, Erik Den Breegen,  Paul Demuro, Matthew Fisher, Tamara Gonzalez, Zach Harris, and Siebren Versteeg. March 16 - April 14, 2013 Novella 164 Orchard Street New York, NY 10002

In light of recent events in the news and following an election cycle that cast light on many politicians' horrendous attitudes toward women, many more subtle forms of discrimination can go unnoticed and undiscussed.  To help remedy this, Brooklyn based artist and curator, Julie Torres , has started a new Twitter feed to document and discuss this inferred and deeply engrained wrong. Be part of the discussion here   @sexistcasual .

d'Artagnan , 2013, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 50 inch. My first one person show @ Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is coming up on April 18, 2013. Hope you will be able to join us for the opening reception: Thursday, April 18, 6-8 PM. Paul Behnke: An Awful Rainbow Opening Reception: April 18, 6 - 8 PM April 18 - May18, 2013 Kathryn Markel Fine Arts 529 W 20th Street New York, NY 10001

(Click to enlarge and view show information.) My French Bulldog, Biscuit Behnke (on left), takes sculptural form in Will Kurtz 's studio, 2013. All studio views above courtesy of the artist and Mike Weiss Gallery , New York 2013.

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Show runs through April 14, 2013

Andrew Masullo @ Mary Boone Gallery Andrew Masullo March 2 - April 27, 2013 Mary Boone Gallery 541 West 24 Street New York, NY 10001 Baker Overstreet @ Fredericks & Freiser Baker Overstreet: Frown Upside Down February 28 - March 30, 2013 Fredericks & Freiser   536 W 24th Street New York, NY 10001 Hope Gangloff @ Susan Inglett Gallery The artist giving a gallery talk, March 9, 2013 Hope Gangloff February 15 - March 23, 2013 Susan Inglett Gallery 522 West 24th Street New York, NY 10001 Al Held @ Cheim & Read Al Held: Alphabet Paintings February 28 - April 20, 2013 Cheim & Read 547 W 25th Street New York, NY 10001