Milton Resnick (1917 - 2004), AS.2, 1959, Oil on canvas, 82 x 80 inches, 208.3 x 203.2 centimeters. www.cheimread.com

David Cohen writes in the NY Sun….

Maybe it is because of the much-awaited Philip Guston drawing survey at the Morgan Library & Museum this spring, but there seems to be revived interest this season in Abstract Expressionism: A cluster of gallery shows coming up take a fresh look at canonical and fringe members of that movement, with Adolph Gottlieb at PaceWildenstein’s uptown gallery (opens May 2), Hans Hofmann at Ameringer & Yohe (April 10), and Conrad Marca-Relli at Washburn Gallery (April 24), which will present an exhibition focused on the Italian-born artist’s collages and drawings.

Each of those galleries has a longstanding relationship with the estates of the respective artists; Cheim & Read, meanwhile, has just taken on the estate of Milton Resnick, who died in 2004, and is to present its first show of his work, opening May 1. Resnick’s intensely worked abstraction, sometimes intimating elements of landscape or figuration, could veer from the lyrical to the hermetic, adopting a rich, organic palette, or it could eschew color in favor of a forbidding, tar-like surface that only gradually unveils the nuances of hue that lie beneath.[Read More…]