artworldTributes
Saturday, November 14th, 2020
This 2014 article on Matt Freedman is offered as tribute to the artist who died recently ...
Tuesday, September 11th, 2018
Instigator of Williamsburg’s Sideshow Nation, an annual show with hundreds of artists ...
Thursday, June 7th, 2018
Despite her range, Hafif was frequently allied with monochrome painters ...

Kikuo Saito, Yellow Fern, 2007. Oil on Canvas, 54 x 42 inches. Courtesy of Baker Sponder Gallery, Miami, Florida
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

In Two Worlds: Kikuo Saito, 1939-2016

Abstract painter with remarkable sense of color was also creator of evocative, wordless theater/dance pieces

David Bowie in the role of Andy Warhol in Basquiat (1996: dir. Julian Schnabel)
Monday, January 11th, 2016

The Thin White Duke: David Bowie, 1947-2016

Bowie discusses art – making it and collecting it – in this interview from 1994

Ellsworth Kelly, Woodland Plant, 1979. Transfer lithograph on 300-gram Arches Cover Paper, edition of 100, 80.3 x 120.7 cm. Courtesy of Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Thursday, December 31st, 2015

Embodied Presence: Ellsworth Kelly, 1923-2015

He exposed emotion and poise in subtly modulated, streamlined form.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015

Deceptive Simplicity, Regal Elegance: Robert Berlind, 1938 to 2015

His scheduled solo show of new work opens January 9

Lennart Anderson, Golden Age 1, 1956. Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches. Collection of the Artist
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015

Order, Poise and Delight: Lennart Anderson, 1928 to 2015

One painter’s tribute to a mentor, with an additional comment by David Cohen

Photo of Jackie Brookner. Courtesy of parsons.edu
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015

Work embodying a solution to the problem it references: The Legacy of Jackie Brookner

Memorial at Parsons October 17 for pioneering ecological artist

Wednesday, June 24th, 2015

Waste Not, Want Not: An Inquiry into What Women Saved and Assembled — Femmage

In homage to the late Miriam Schapiro, this classic text of the feminist art movement

Photograph of Selina Trieff in 1960
Thursday, May 7th, 2015

Drawn to the Larger Mystery: Selina Trieff, 1934 to 2015

Her paintings were a comedy of strangely familiar selves

James Adley, Carmine, 2007. Acrylic on panel, 24 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the Artist
Thursday, May 7th, 2015

Grand Symphonic Paintings: James Adley, 1931 to 2015

“Size was a necessary component of his symphonic ambition for painting”

Travis Collinson, Pinkie was painted by Thomas Lawrence but what if blue boy was a beat poet (Paule), 2013-14. Acrylic on linen, 64 x 48 inches. Collection of Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive.
Monday, April 6th, 2015

Relentlessly Engaged: Paule Anglim, 1930-2015

with comments by Annabeth Rosen, Wayne Thiebaud and John Zurier