Norihiko Saito: A Hill in His Heart / 2007 / 70 x 165 inches / mineral pigments on screen panels / © Norihiko Saito. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of the artist and Dillon Gallery
I was able to run down at lunch today to the Dillon Gallery to catch the Ma: New Traditions in Nihonga exhibition […]
Amy Sillman’s B, 2007,
courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.
Directions—Amy Sillman
Third Person Singular
March 13, 2008 - July 6, 2008
Brooklyn-based painter Amy Sillman introduces an entirely new body of work as part of the Hirshhorn’s ongoing “Directions” series. Inspired by first-person observation of the human figure and the emotional aspects of being […]
A detail from Marco Breuer’s Untitled (C-498), 2004, made with scratched chromogenic paper.
COURTESY VON LINTEL GALLERY, NEW YORK
In pictures of ethereal specks and kaleidoscopic explosions of color, photographers are embracing abstraction
by Eric Bryant (excerpt from artnewsonline.com)
In Marco Breuer’s recent photographs, black specks dance across a white surface, leaving faint trails that mark the passage of […]
One of Nguyen Cam’s paintings
Excerpt from www.thanhniennews.com
A French-trained Vietnamese artist tries to “reinvent time” with his new abstract collection that he calls “calligraphy of the soul.”
Vietnamese French artist Nguyen Cam returned to Vietnam in January to exhibit “The Passage of Time,” 54 new paintings at the Art Vietnam Gallery in Hanoi.
After producing and exhibiting his […]
Gelah Penn’s “Reckless Moment,” detail, 2008.
Benjamin Genocchio in the NYTimes asks,
Is it possible to make a drawing without using a pen, pencil or paper? Why not — these days artists make art from anything at all, then call it what they like. Two who are experimenting with the formal properties of drawing are Serena Bocchino […]
John Zinsser, “Screen Time,” (2007). Alkyd enamel and oil on canvas. 66 × 72 in. Image courtesy of JG Contemporary, New York.
From the Brooklyn Rail
by Stephanie Buhmann
JG Contemporary
February 8, 2008 - March 8, 2008
John Zinsser has always found maximum expression in reductive abstract painting, simplifying his visual language to convey clarity of thought and sensory […]
Karrig
James Brooks
1956
oil on canvas
Walker Art Center. www.walkerart.org
According to John Goodrich in Thursday’s New York Sun…
By itself, sincerity is insufficient to make a great work of art. Still, the Abstract Expressionists got plenty of mileage out of it, with soul-baring, chest-thumping canvases that rank among the greatest achievements of American art. But like everyone else, the […]
“Tin Lizzie Green” (1964) by Jules Olitski
Photo: Museum of Fine Arts, courtesy American Federation of Arts
In today’s NYT Roberta Smith reviews the second exhibition going on right now dedicated to color, Weightless Color, Floating Free. We have color charts at MOMA and Color Fields at the Smithsonian. Starting in the late 1950s the great American […]
“Missing Time Color Exercise (Reversed) No. 2.” by Mike Kelley, 2002
Can anybody say “Wheel of Fortune”…juxtapose some comic illustrations some color chips and throw in the word sex and you’ve got a winner…
Today Karen Rosenberg in New York Times reviews the latest installment at MOMA “Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today.” “Color Chart” […]
Check out the latest Saatchi Showdown head to head, but be forewarned…Mores Rabenstern’s paper collage “Searching for New Ways” certainly looks like a search and an unfruitful one at that, as he seems to have stumbled upon creating a fashion ad circa a few years ago and if there is a concept in there i’m […]