Structure and Imagery

Matthew Wong, Origin, watercolor on paper, 12 X 9 inches, 2018 Matthew Wong March 22–April 29, 2018 Opening reception: Thursday March 22, 6–8pm Karma 188 E 2nd Street New York, NY 10009 Karma is pleased to present Matthew Wong’s first one-person exhibition. Working with equal curiosity and confidence in oils and watercolors, Wong deploys a wide-ranging color, tonal, and mark-making vocabulary to delineate psychological and metaphysical spaces at once familiar and uncannily strange. The use of planar space, contrast between wet and dry, as well as the application of dots and rudimentary marks in Chinese ink painting have influenced Wong’s conception of painting as an activity for mark-making and color application.  The artist often employs seemingly contradictory modes side by side or one on top of the other. He allows for the simultaneity of a thick daub of orange with willowy strips of green, and the spaces they appear to delineate invite exploratio...

I was recently interviewed by Kimberly Ruth for her podcast Art Uncovered. Follow the link below to listen in on or conversation. http://www.btrtoday.com/listen/artuncovered/paul-behnke/ Paul Behnke, My Nightmare of Irma Vep, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 64 x 60 in.

Recently I had the great pleasure to pay a visit to the studio of a painter I very much admire. Ana Wieder Blank combines religion, myth, and the act of protest to produce highly personal, expressive paintings, sculptures and performances.  In the resulting works, aforementioned mediums are blurred allowing each discipline to conjure a myriad of formal and conceptual concerns alluding to modernist leanings while lending a strong, unique voice in reaction to the very contemporary and ongoing injustices that women, LGBTQ, people of color and immigrants live and work under every day. Ana is from Silver Springs, MD and studied at The American University and Pratt Institute. She lives and works in New York City. For more information on Ana Wieder Blank's work, including her striking and recent mural project, please visit her website . Ana Wieder Blank in her studio in Long Island City, 2018 The Artist's Statement My current pr...

From the Press Release: Alison Jacques Gallery is delighted to present a solo show of paintings by British artist Roy Oxlade. This is the first solo exhibition of Oxlade's work since his death in February 2014 aged 85. The paintings shown were all made in the 1980s and 1990s and expand our understanding of the themes and metaphors which are central to Oxlade's practice along with his use of bold colour and improvised image. His home and studio in Kent formed the basis of his subject matter, with anglepoise lamps, lemon squeezers and his wife Rose Wylie as some of the recurring themes. As Roy Oxlade stated a year before he died:  'Painting to me is like a room of the imagination. It's up to me what I do with it. I choose its size and its materials - usually canvas and oil paint. At the beginning its relationships don't amount to much - it's a rectangle in a jumble of art history I relate to […] There would not be much fun in leaving the room empty [...

Nate Plotkin ,  Mineral Composition , 2017, graphite on paper, 11 x 14 in. Nate Plotkin: Mystery Channels On view through March 11, 2018 Shrine 191 Henry Street New York, NY 10002 Susan Cantrick Susan Cantrick: Impure Situation(s) Opening March 22, 6:30 pm March 23 - April 3, 2018 The Pave D'orsay 48 Rue de Lille 75007 Paris, France Daniel John Gadd, Untitled, 2017, oil, aluminum, mirrored glass, mastic and metal leaf on wooden panels, 106x70 in. Daniel John Gadd: Volta NY 2018 (Booth D10) March 7 - 11, 2018 David & Schweitzer Contemporary Volta takes place at Peir 90 (West 50th Street) New York, NY10019 Brenda Goodman and Amy Pleasant Brenda Goodman and Amy Pleasant: NADA New York (Booth 2.30) March 8 - 11, 2018 Jeff Bailey Gallery NADA takes place at 550 Washington Street New York, NY