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Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
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Alan Shields, Maze, 1981-82. Acrylic and thread on canvas, cotton belting, Velcro, aluminum pipe, 87 x 219 x 219 inches. Courtesy of Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

A Maze and Grace: Alan Shields takes Color Field for a Walk

Alan Shield’s Maze is on view at Greenberg Van Doren through December 21

Susannah Phillips, Landscape 10, 2012. Oil on canvas, 36 x 46 inches. Courtesy of Lori Bookstein Fine Art.
Monday, December 10th, 2012

Growing To Know A Place: Susannah Phillips and Landscape

continues at Lori Bookstein through January 2013

Phyllida Barlow, untitled: holedwall, 2012. Wirenetting, polyurethane expanding foam, cement, scrim, paint, 59 x 47 x 82 inches. Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth
Friday, December 7th, 2012

The Cannibal: Phyllida Barlow at Hauser & Wirth

This slow cook artist is something of a speed freak.

Melvin Edwards, Ways of Steel, 1988. Welded steel, 17 x 32-1/4 x 14-5/8 inches. Courtesy of Alexander Gray Associates, New York
Saturday, December 1st, 2012

Resistance of Steel: Melvin Edwards at Alexander Gray

In “Lynch Fragments” chains signify cultural connectedness and violent repression

Frank Moore, Her Closet, 1990. Oil and pins on canvas mounted on wood, in artist’s frame (painted wood), 31 x 30 inches. Private collection, New York. Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York
Friday, November 23rd, 2012

Battle Lines: Frank Moore’s Toxic Beauty

on view at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery through December 8

Carolanna Parlato, Orbit, 2012. Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 24 x 24 inches. Courtesy of Elizabeth Harris Gallery
Wednesday, October 10th, 2012

Bringing the Hand Back into Play: Carolanna Parlato at Elizabeth Harris

Her latest show marked a shift in style

Henry Rothman, Untitled (Blue and Red) [double-sided] circa 1960-63. Paper collage, 6-7/8 x 4-7/8 inches. Courtesy of Lori Bookstein Fine Art
Wednesday, October 10th, 2012

Beyond The Frame: Henry Rothman at Lori Bookstein

Collages of exquisite touch by frame maker to the New York School

Jiro Yoshihara, Work, 1965. Oil on canvas, 71-5/8 x 89-3/8 inches. Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth
Friday, October 5th, 2012

What if…? Gutai, Japan’s New York School

A Visual Essay on Gutai at Hauser & Wirth, through October 27

installation shot of the exhibition under review, courtesy of The Jewish Museum
Thursday, October 4th, 2012

Addressing Politics Poetically: Izhar Patkin at the Jewish Museum

The Messiah’s glAss is up through November 11

Fran O’Neill, earthly delight, 2012 (detail). Oil on canvas, 72 x 72 inches. Courtesy of The Artist.
Friday, September 28th, 2012

In Hot Pursuit: Fran O’Neill at the Studio School

Her show of rigorous gestural abstraction is up through October 13