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Gerard Mosse, Step Into Light, 2008-2009. Oil on Linen, 79 x 59 inches. Courtesy Elga Wimmer PCC
Friday, June 4th, 2010

Gerard Mosse at Elga Wimmer

Reinterpreting Flavin’s purist experiments with light within the medium of oil on linen enables Mosse to describe the moment when color becomes something as indefinable as light.

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Revolution in Felt and Fat: Joseph Beuys’s New York comeback

Joseph Beuys: Make the Secrets Productive at Pace Gallery, March 5 to April 10, 2010

Milton Avery, Drawbridge, 1932. Oil on canvas, 32 x 48 inches. Courtesy of Knoedler & Company
Saturday, May 1st, 2010

Milton Avery: Industrial Revelations, at Knoedler & Company

If nature was his springboard, as Avery once famously declared, then in this body of work nature is also the lens through which he experienced the city.

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Worth the Trip: Fred Tomaselli lands in Brooklyn

His touring exhibition, now arriving at the Brooklyn Museum, was reviewed at the Tang this summer.

Dorothea Rockburne, Universe Series, 1994-99. Raw pigment, acrylic medium and charcoal on watercolor paper, mounted on ragboard, six panels, each 22 x 30 inches. Images courtesy of New York Studio School.
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Dorothea Rockburne: Astronomy Drawings at the New York Studio School

These staggering images made it clear that the universe is an interconnected assembly of electrical circuits and that energy and matter are, indeed, infinite in their connectivity.

Pawel Wojtasik, At the Still Point, 2010, 5-channel video installation with soundscape by Stephen Vitiello. Photo by Etienne Frossard. Image courtesy of Smack Mellon.
Friday, April 16th, 2010

Pawel Wojtasik at Smack Mellon

The size of the projection is matched by the scale of its content.

Shirley Jaffe, The Gray Center, 1969. Oil on canvas, 76¾ x 51¼ inches. Courtesy Tiber de Nagy Gallery.
Friday, April 9th, 2010

Shirley Jaffe: Selected Paintings, 1969 – 2009 at Tibor de Nagy

Jaffe completely jettisoned the stiff grid and strict geometric shapes in favor of a loose, undeniably playful series of rectangles with interior forms.

John Griefen, Untitled (lavender), 2008. Acrylic on canvas, 32 x 103 inches. Courtesy, Gary Snyder/ Project Space
Friday, April 9th, 2010

John Griefen: Recent Paintings at Gary Snyder Project Space

The ensemble represents a series of very carefully thought-out painting decisions — yet never do the results look cold or calculated.

installation shots of the exhibition under review. All images courtesy Casey Kaplan Gallery.
Friday, April 9th, 2010

Liam Gillick at Casey Kaplan Gallery

Gillick’s show is cerebrally engaging and visually interesting, but the visual and cerebral components never coming together to form a layered experience.

Bill Jensen, With Color XXIV, 2009. Egg and oil tempera on paper, 20-1/2 x 14-3/4 inches. Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York
Sunday, April 4th, 2010

Bill Jensen at Cheim & Read

Jensen is in some ways a reticent painter, removing all signs of a brushstroke. His quietness, though, becomes something else when one regards the casual mastery and expressiveness of color in much of his art.