Structure and Imagery

Richard Gerstl at Neue Galerie Sharon Butler Good Morning Drawings at SEASON in Seattle, WA Andrea Belag Ghost Writer at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects Sonia Gechtoff at Anita Shapolsky Gallery Debra Ramsay at RE- Institute, Millerton, NY David Hockney at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Diana Copperwhite at Jaeckel Gallery Tiffany Livingston in Los Angeles Bound at Thomas Erben Gallery Rebecca Murtaugh at Stout Projects at Gallery Gary Giordano Marie Peter-Toltz at SLAG Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose + Croix in Paris 1892 - 1897 at the Guggenheim Museum Len Bellinger at David and Schweitzer Contemporary Brenda Goodman at David and Schweitzer Contemporary Eric Brown at THEODORE:Art Thomas Micchelli on view in True Believers curated by Daniel John Gadd at M.David Studio/ David and Schweitzer Contemporary Matthew Neil Gehring in Bound by Matter at Lichtundfire...

William Bradley in his studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn, 2017. Last week I was pleased to visit the studio of York, UK born painter William Bradley . Bradley has recently relocated to Brooklyn from Los Angeles but manages to maintain an active presence in the two cities as well as London. I first became aware of his work upon visiting his Tall Tales solo exhibition at Galerie Richard, NY  in 2013 and have kept up with him ever since. Bradley's paintings occupy an impalpable space between the subtly poetic and a contemporary punch. With an elegant eye for composition and a hardscrabble enthusiasm for paint and the abstract reality it is capable of invoking, Bradley reimagines and deconstructs seminal formal mainstays associated with the New York School and modernist abstraction.   The results are intelligent, buoyant paintings that hint at an admiration of the tradition's recent past while they undermine and rebuild it into a strong contemporary v...

Ann Purcell in her Red Hook studio, 2017. Ann Purcell: Caravans Opening January 4th, 6 - 8 pm Jan 4 - Feb 3, 2018 Berry Campbell 530 W 24th Street, New York, NY

Painting Black December 2 - March 4, 2018 Raum Schroth,  Museum Wilhelm Morgner Soest, DE Curated by Ivo Ringe and featuring works by: Tim Allen | Stefan Annerel | Katrina Blannin | Joe Barnes | Kate Beck | Mats Bergquist | Andrew Bick | Alain Biltereyst | Britta Bogers | Joaquim Chancho | Philippe Chitarrini | Vincent Como | Deb Covell | Rudolf de Crignis | Matthew Deleget | Edgar Diehl | Alan Ebnother | Rupert Eder | Mark Franc is | Frank Gerritz | Jon Groom | Alison Hall | Mark Harrington | Michael Jäger | Raymund Kaiser | Matt McClune | László Ótto | Sybille Pattscheck | Anton Quiring | David Rhodes | Ivo Ringe | Rolf Rose | Barbara Rosengarth | Elisabeth Sonneck | Shawn Stipling | Esther Stocker | Günter Umberg | Jan van der Ploeg | Victor Vasarely | Dolf Verlinden | Don Voisine | Joan Witek. Info Vincent Como Don Voisine

Installation view: John Hoyland Stain Paintings 1964 - 1966 at Pace Gallery. Photograph by Paul Behnke This review was originally written for  ABCRIT ,  and appeared there in October 2017. John Hoyland Stain Paintings 1964-1966 September 15 – October 21, 2017 PACE 32 East 57 th Street New York, NY 10022 John Hoyland Stain Paintings 1964-1966 is the first in-depth exhibition of the painter’s work in the United States in 25 years.  Hoyland’s work is rarely seen on this side of the Atlantic and this marks only the third time I have been able to see works by the artist “in the flesh”. The first being at Flowers Gallery (NY) in the group exhibition The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie which featured a small number of works by Hoyland dating from the early 1980s through the early 2000s. The second was the stunning Power Stations mini retrospective in 2015 at Damie...