Structure and Imagery

  Photo by Jeff Frederick   Photo by Jeff Frederick Photo by Robin Stout   Brooke Moyse, Partick Berran, Trudy Benson, Jeff frederick, Gary Petersen, Robert Otto Epstein and Paul Behnke.  Photo by Jake Cartwright Paul Behnke, Craig Taylor and Trudy Benson   Trudy Benson   Paul Behnke  Keltie Ferris, Robert Otto Epstein, Paul Behnke  Trudy Benson   Craig Taylor  Brooke Moyse   Curator Jeff Frederick and Paul Behnke Photo by Robin Stout   Brooke Moyse   Gary Petersen Partick Berran If Color Could Kill curated by Jeff Frederick Featuring work by: Paul Behnke, Trudy Benson, Patrick Berran, Robert Otto Epstein, Keltie Ferris, Brooke Moyse, Gary Petersen and Craig Taylor April 4 - April 29, 2016 Salena Gallery at Long Island University info **If Color Could Kill will...

  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...

  Postcard image: Matthew Neil Gehring, For Whom this Glen is Sacred , 2013, oil on canvas, 78x84 in. (click to enlarge) I am organizing a show for Katheryn Markel Fine Arts and hope you will be able to join us for the opening on January 4th. From the Press Release: Eight Painters Organized by Paul Behnke With Karen Baumeister, Paul Behnke, Karl Bielik, James Erikson, Matthew Neil Gehring, Dale McNeil, Brooke Moyse, and Julie Torres January 4, 2014 – February 1, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, January 4, 6:00 – 8:00 PM New York, NY (December 6, 2013) – Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to present Eight Painters , a group exhibition organized by painter Paul Behnke, presenting new and recent abstract work by Karen Baumeister, Paul Behnke, Karl Bielik, James Erikson, Matthew Neil Gehring, Dale McNeil, Brooke Moyse, and Julie Torres. The show will run from January 4, 2014 to February 1, 2014. The exhibit ...

Studio view of new works Studio view The Brooklyn based artist, Brooke Moyse , is one of my favorite painters working in New York today. While her work could be cited as an example of Bushwick's recent New Casualist esthetic, the formal qualities of Moyse's painting have been evolving steadily, into a studied offhandedness, for some years.  The quick appearance of her paint application is butted against a sophisticated palette, and accute sense of composition, that lend an air of urbanity to Moyse's paintings.  These varied, formal contrasts, along with the ambition and scale of much of her work,  make her seem right at home in the current group show at Loretta Howard Gallery in Chelsea. In DNA: Strands of Abstraction , she shares wall space with Kline, Motherwell, Frankenthaller, Poons and Rockburne without missing a beat. In the latest entry, for the In Process series, I am happy to present the development of one of Moyse's recent p...