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Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
The American artist Kara Walker poses questions about slavery’s history and legacy with a major UK commission. ...
Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
The work of earlier artists can be found in scenes from this expat Russian painter’s adolescence. ...
Sunday, March 3rd, 2019
A derangement of the senses is arrived at via multifarious stimuli ...

Melissa Meyer, Untitled, 2012. Watercolor on paper, 7-1/8 x 10-1/4 inches. Courtesy of Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.
Sunday, February 9th, 2014

Risk on the Horizon: Melissa Meyer at Lennon, Weinberg

Her show of paintings and watercolors enters its final week

Lois Dodd, Red Shirt and Window, 2013. Oil on panel, 15-3/4 x 16 inches. Courtesy of Alexandre Gallery
Saturday, February 8th, 2014

Nature, Reduced But Full: Lois Dodd at Alexandre Gallery

Probing, often mischievous curiosity about the appearance of ordinary objects

Sandi Slone, Red Letter Day, 2013, oil and acrylic on canvas, 76" x 60."
Sunday, February 2nd, 2014

It’s Elementary: Painting 101 at Sargent’s Daughters

Five artists lay down the rules of the painting game

Larry Poons, Araminty, 2013. Acrylic on canvas, 65 x 92-7/8 inches. Courtesy of Danese/Corey
Friday, January 31st, 2014

Orchestration Transformed: Larry Poons, Early and New

Shows this winter at Loretta Howard and Danese/Corey

Paul Glabicki, RELATIVITY # 6, 2013. Graphite pencil, Prismacolor pencil, ink acrylic on paper, 31-1/2 x 34-1/2 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Kim Foster Gallery
Thursday, January 30th, 2014

Hyper-Saturation of Sign and Signifier: Paul Glabicki’s Relativity

At Kim Foster Gallery through February 15

Dorothea Rockburne, Scalar,1971. Chipboard, crude oil, paper and nails, 80 x 114-1/2 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, New York © 2014 Dorothea Rockburne / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Tuesday, January 28th, 2014

Thought Embodied: Dorothea Rockburne’s Drawing Which Makes Itself

now in its final week at MoMA

Jeff Williams, Oxidation Table, 2013, steel, hydrogen peroxide, muriatic acid, 108 x 60 x 36 inches. Photo by Brad Farwell. Courtesy of Jack Hanley Gallery.
Sunday, December 22nd, 2013

Atomic Minimalism: Jeff Williams at Jack Hanley

Chemical reactions yield striking physical changes in raw materials

Sangram Majumdar, Interrupted, 2013. Oil on linen, 30 x 24 inches. Courtesy of Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects
Friday, December 13th, 2013

Striving For Obfuscation: Sangram Majumdar’s Strange New Turn

On view at Steven Harvey and Projector, through December 22

Patricia Treib, Accoutrements, 2013, oil on canvas, 66 x 50 inches. Courtesy of Wallspace.
Thursday, December 12th, 2013

The Theater of Abstraction: Patricia Treib at Wallspace

Her paint is thinned to the consistency of buttermilk

Mike Yaniro, Caric 1, 2013, graphite and ink on paper, found frame, 21 x 18 inches. Courtesy of Room East.
Wednesday, December 4th, 2013

Sign Painting and Image: Mike Yaniro at Room East

A young artist’s debut on the Lower East Side plays with language, drawing, and commercial processes