Structure and Imagery

Don Voisine,  Step Up, 2013, oil on wood, 12x12 in. Simplest Means Through February 15 Jeff Bailey Gallery 625 W 27th Street New York, NY  10001 Jason Karolak, Untitled (P-1326) , 2013, oil on canvas, 78x88 In.    Jason Karolak January 30 - March 15, 2014 Robischon Gallery 1740 Wazee Street Denver, CO 80202   Osamu Kobayashi   Björn Meyer-Ebrecht and Osamu Kobayashi w/ Olivié Ponce in the Project Space Opening: Friday January 31, 6-9 PM January 31 - February 23, 2014 Storefront Ten Eyck 324 Ten Eyck Street Brooklyn, NY 11206 Marianne Gagnier, Eos , 2013, acrylic on canvas, 26x22 in. Marianne Gagnier of this world- new paintings Suzanne Laura Kammin Greater and Lesser Vehicles w/ Ro Lohin in the Project Room Opening: Thursday January 30, 6-8 PM January 28 - February 22, 2014 The Painting Center 547 W 27th Street, Suite 500 New York, NY 10001 ...

  From the Press Release :   Unafraid to step beyond stylistic boundaries, Edwin Ruda consistently probed the incongruities and connections between minimalism and the geometric and lyrical modes of abstraction. Ruda’s “band” paintings embody his efforts to reconcile these two divergent forms. The result is an elegant, radiant body of work. Loosening the flow of his paint, Ruda introduced pure and translucent bands of colors that are rarely part of minimalist statements.  He then worked through the resulting contradictions without allowing structure or formlessness to dominate. Peter Schjeldahl stated in 1973 that Ruda, “a painter of large, complex painterly abstractions,” was “an artist often overlooked in discussions of contemporary painting, but I believe one of the finest in America.”  James Gleeson wrote in a 1974 review of Ruda’s show at Gallery A, Sydney, Australia, that the artist had found the “missing ...

  Recently I did an interview with Brett Baker of Painters' Table . We discussed my anti-curatorial premise behind the current group show, Eight Painters and my views on abstract painting's current state. Please follow the link to read the interview here . The show is up through February 1st at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Chelsea.

Recently I had the pleasure of visiting the Greenpoint studio of the painter, Jason Rohlf . Upon encountering Rohlf's paintings, one first thinks of celestial charts, ancient navigational maps or imagined cosmologies - stories, plot, directions and plans. After spending more time with the work the artist's materials and processes sneak to the fore and the viewer becomes conscious of the layering, second guessing, and work involved in realizing an image. Experimentation, variety and chance are major factors in this work. And, indeed, Rohlf's experimentation and rooted painterliness are the backbone of these ambitious paintings.   Many times a final overlay of geometric forms and unforgiving lines and edges attempt to impose an order onto the chaos, providing structure and a strong compositional force. But even this has a sense of uneasiness and impermanence. As the mess and randomness seep through, mingle, and compete with the order imposed upon it. ...

  Karl Bielik   Karl Bielik and Paul Behnke   James Erikson, Karen Baumeister, Dale McNeil, and Julie Torres  My curator's statement from the exhibition catalog :   The Ability of Paint By Paul Behnke “Painting is feeling. There are situations, states of mind, mood which call for some form of artistic expression, because one knows that only some form of art is capable of going beyond them to give us intuitive contact with a superior set of truths.” – Roger Hilton When I was first approached about curating this show I had two immediate thoughts. The first was that I wanted to put together a strong exhibit including the painters I most admire. And the second was that I wanted my role to be more of an organizer rather than a curator.   The term organizer implies, at least in my mind, being one of the gang both literally and philosophical...

  Life On Mars Gallery 56 Bogart Street Brooklyn, NY 11206   Reception for the artists: Sunday, February 9, 5 - 7 p.m. CB1Gallery 207 W 5th Street Los Angeles, CA 90013   Outlet 253 Wilson Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11237 Danese / Corey  511 W 22nd Street New York, NY 10011   Ameringer McEnery Yohe 525 W 22nd Street New York, NY 10011