Form and Facture @ Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery

I am very happy to have work included in this upcoming exhibition curated by Karen Levitov.

Form and Facture:
New Painting and Sculpture from New York

Rachel Beach   Paul Behnke   Matthew Neil Gehring   Osamu Kobayashi   Rebecca Murtaugh   
Fran O'Neill

curated by Karen Levitov
Opening: Saturday, November 1, 7 -9 PM
November 1 - December 13, 2014

Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery
Staller Center for the Arts
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794

Writing as a Hostile Act: Joan Didion

Portrait of Joan Didion ©1972 Julian Wasser

Also applies to painting . . . . 

INT:  You have said that writing is a hostile act; I have always wanted to ask you why.

JD:  It's hostile in that you're trying to make somebody see something the way you see it, trying to impose your idea, your picture. It's hostile to try to wrench around someone else's mind that way. Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.

 

From "The Paris Review"/The Art of Fiction/Number 71/

London Calling @ Look & Listen

Andrew Seto, Rigor Mortis, 2014, oil and acrylic on canvas, 40x30 cm.

London Calling

works selected by Erin Lawlor

Andrew Bick   Katrina Blannin   Dragica Carlin   Clem Crosby   Vincent Hawkins   Erin Lawlor   Caterina Lewis   Katie Pratt   Andrew Seto

Opening: September 20, 6:00 PM

public talk w/ Erin Lawlor: 5:30 PM

Look & Listen

La ville de Saint Chamas

13250 France

Save the Date: Upcoming Painting Shows

 EC, Defeating Silence, 2014, household paint, acrylic, oil, and collage on canvas, 102x104 cm.

As Wide As A Door Is Open: Material Images

Dominic Beattie   Stephen Buckley   John Bunker   EC   Christopher McSherry

Opening: Friday, September 5th, 6 - 9 PM

September 5 - October 11, 2014

Fold Gallery London

15 Clerkenwell Close

London EC1R 0AA

Deborah Zlotsky, Senetto, 2014, oil on canvas, 48x48 in.

Deborah Zlotsky: It happened, but not to you

Opening: Friday, September 12, 6 - 8 PM

September 11 - October 11, 2014

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts

529 W 20th Street, 6W

New York, NY 10011

 Todd Bienvenu, Backseat, 2013, oil on canvas, 47x37.5 in.

Todd Bienvenu: Borrowing Tomorrow's Fun

Opening: Friday, September 5, 6 - 9 PM

September 5 - September 30, 2014

Life on Mars Gallery

56 Bogart St.

Brooklyn, NY 11206

Georgina Pollard, 2014, Yesn' no, acrylic house paint, 88x88 cm.

Georgina Pollard: Through Line III

Opening: Wednesday, August 27, 6 -8 PM

August 27 - September 20, 2014

A-M Gallery

191 Wislon St., Newtown

Sydney, Australia




*Images courtesy of the artists/galleries.

Studio Visit with Robert Otto Epstein

Robert Otto Epstein in his studio, Maplewood, NJ 2014

I recently had the opportunity to visit the Maplewood, NJ studio of painter Robert Otto Epstein.

Epstein's colorful and meticulous grid-based work draws from a variety of surprising sources and often employs color placement strategies related to chance or more formal systems devised by the artist.

In Epstein's case, however, the conceptual elements and source material can be seen as a means to an end that enhances the work but does not encompass it. The finished paintings move beyond their sources and become something all together different. Many times transcendent, the compositions and colors seem in flux and flow along the channels of their boundaries seeming at first abstract, then a mandala or landscape and then a ball player all within the borders of the same piece.

Epstein is very active in the Bushwick art scene and recently his work has been featured in  exhibits at Mulherin + Pollard (NY), the Frank Juarez Gallery (WI) , and Life on Mars (NY) and in the one person exhibit Row By Roe at Matteawan Gallery in Beacon, NY.

Brenda Goodman @ John Davis Gallery

Bite Me, 2014

 Installation view w/ Painted Pony, 2013

 Installation view w/ Knot, 2013

 Installation view w/ Knot, 2013

Last Saturday I took a drive up to Hudson, NY to meet with Brenda Goodman and view her current show of new paintings at John Davis Gallery.

A resident of New York's Bowery for just over thirty years, the Detroit native now lives and works in Pine Hill, NY.

The work featured in Brenda Goodman is a tour de force weaving together figurative elements and abstraction into a seamless cloth. The result is equal parts personal narrative, metaphor and formal, hard won, painterly elements. 

Stunning and pictorially inventive, this new body of work joins Goodman's previous efforts in setting her apart from her contemporaries as a painter willing to do the hard, long work of mining the private and public spaces she inhabits. She then translates these into a unique and powerful visual language.

Brenda Goodman is on view in Hudson until August 10. More of Goodman's work can be seen this summer in Another Look at Detroit: Parts 1 and 2 curated by Todd Levin at Marianne Boesky Gallery until August 8th and in Life on Mars Gallery's Summer Invitational through August 10th.

Ah, Her Red Hair, 2014

Brenda Goodman at the John Davis Gallery w/ Knot (2013) 

Look Out, 2014

Zap, 2014

Brush, 2013

Talkin at Me, 2014

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Guardian, 2013

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Installation view

Brenda Goodman

Through August 10, 2014

John Davis Gallery

362 1/2 Warren Street

Hudson, NY 12534