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 ...

William King, Bob and Terry, c. 1954. Terra cotta, 14 x 14 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches. Courtesy of Alexandre Gallery
Thursday, March 5th, 2015

The Gentle Giant: William King, 1925-2015

In this tribute to the sculptor William King, who passed away peacefully Tuesday night at his Springs, New York home under hospice care, David Cohen draws on an essay he wrote in 2011 on King’s work for Iowa State University, Ames, where a number of his works are on permanent loan.  King, a former president of the … Continued

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015

The Hungry Connoisseur: Claude Simard, 1956 to 2014

An artist’s eulogy for her dealer, co-founder of Jack Shainman Gallery

Jane Wilson in front her painting, The Open Scene, 1960. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Photograph by John Jonas Gruen, May 1960.
Sunday, February 1st, 2015

“Looking for the Color Behind the Color”: Jane Wilson, 1924 to 2015

Wilson belongs to a tradition of transcendental American landscape

Thursday, January 1st, 2015

“I Choose To Be Free”. Jake Berthot, 1939-2014

Touched by the sublime, his painting went beyond the sense of sight

Jane Freilicher, My Cubism, 2004. Oil on linen, 25 x 25 inches. Courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery
Friday, December 12th, 2014

“A button of color can make the world shake”: Jane Freilicher, 1924-2014

Jane Freilicher is my idea of an artist, writes Thomas Nozkowski

Monday, November 24th, 2014

Candy Says: Remembering Two Artists and One Image

Looking back at the life of a muse, the work of a photographer.

Jennifer Wynne Reeves ,Place (4-43), 1997. Oil on birch hardwood, 12 x 16 inches. Courtesy BravinLee programs
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

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

Reeves anthropomorphizes abstraction in an ultimately humane way

Edward Leffingwell, 1941-2014. Courtesy of Tom Leffingwell
Sunday, September 14th, 2014

Critic, Curator, Dandy: Edward Leffingwell, 1941 to 2014

A cosmopolitan of astringent, forthright wit, according to his friend, Lilly Wei

Wednesday, August 20th, 2014

Harun Farocki: 1944-2014

A tribute to the influential and humane filmmaker, who died on July 30.

David Shapiro at work. Courtesy of David Shapiro Studio
Monday, July 21st, 2014

Disparate Forces Uniting As One: David Shapiro, 1944 to 2014

“Allostasis” or stability through change was a goal of his abstract paintings and prints