Charles Steffen: Drawing Nudes is Like Saying a Prayer, Amen at Andrew Edlin Gallery
Stylistic textures are revealed to be unselfconscious tics without which Steffen cannot construct flesh.
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary at the Drawing Center
Storms of tiny lines and colored boxes remain powerful statements on their own, even if they were to be completely disconnected from the music they ultimately represent.
David Reed at Peter Blum (Soho)
The drawings are filled with information and speculation.
William Eggleston: 21st Century and Diane Arbus: In the Absence of Others at Cheim & Read
Eggleston and Arbus promoted the shared view that no subject is uninteresting when captured a compelling way.
Pablo Bronstein at the Met, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bronstein appears to want to draw classical buildings as though he were at work in a perpetual ancient regime.
Paul Corio at 210 Gallery
Corio brings a hard-earned sense of humor and mischief to abstraction rooted in the phenomenology of optical sensation, a branch of contemporary art not exactly known for big laughs.
Brian Alfred: It’s Already the End of the World at Haunch of Venison
Brian Alfred at Haunch of Venison
Josh Smith at Deitch Studios
The best works are vibrant and fun, and show the chops of a painter who takes delight in straightforward, rambunctious picture making.
Linda Cross at the James W. Palmer Gallery, Vassar College and the Beacon Institute of Rivers and Estuaries
She doesn’t paint so much as build her pictures…they seem to convey the reality of water stopped up with manmade detritus.
