Posts from September, 2014

Nature Tries Again: Josh Dorman at Ryan Lee


Geological-, biological-, and mechanical-history paintings as collage.


Trompe-l’oeil and Postmodern Cheek: Paul Sietsema at Matthew Marks


Is trompe-l’oeil painting inherently anti-climactic?


September 2014: Alexander Nagel, Dorothy Spears and Robert Storr with moderator David Cohen


Allora & Calzadilla at Gladstone Gallery, Marcel Dzama at David Zwirner, Angela Dufresne at Monya Rowe and Justine Kurland at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.


New Kid, Gloves Off


Thoughts on negative criticism, The Review Panel and his job from recently appointed Associate Editor


Snips and Snaps: Harry Roseman’s Haircuts at Sacha & Olivier


A show that gives new meaning to “salon hang”


Comic Revelations and Reappearances: Works by Will Bruno


An adventurer in the Pacific Northwest exhibits the record of his recent journeying.


Geoffrey Dorfman: “The painting is telling you exactly what it needs.”


Essay from his show at Ober Gallery in Kent, Ct. this summer


Bathed in Grace: The Life and Work of Jennifer Wynne Reeves


Reeves anthropomorphizes abstraction in an ultimately humane way


Everything and Nothing At All: Roman Opalka Painting Infinity


Number paintings and early works on paper at Dominique Lévy


Our Secret: Hidden Master Painter Paul Pagk


The masterful and little-known abstractionist has three concurrent shows on two continents.