Criticism
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Detail of Zheng Shengtian,?Clement Greenberg: Modernist Painting,?2000.?Ink on canvas, set of 4, each 31-3/4 x 48 inches. Courtesy of Chambers Fine Art
Saturday, February 22nd, 2014

Illegible Ghosts: Zheng Shengtian and Wang Dongling at Chambers Fine Art

Calligraphy, translation and creative misreading

Robert Bechtle, Six Cars on 20th Street, 2007, watercolor on paper, 25 5/8 by 33 3/8 inches. Courtesy of Barbara Gladstone Gallery.
Saturday, February 22nd, 2014

Bob’s Sebring: Robert Bechtle at Gladstone

Jewel-like paintings and drawings by the veteran Photorealist

Sue Williams, Otis, 2013, oil and acrylic on canvas, 50 x 60 inches. Courtesy of 303 Gallery, New York.
Tuesday, February 18th, 2014

As Abstract as Indigestion: Sue Williams at 303 Gallery

Paintings that revisit the trauma of 9/11 without sentimentality or patriotism

Leo Fitzpatrick, Never again (I was in love with you intill you left with him) again, 2013, acrylic on canvas 14”x 33”. Courtesy of the National Exemplar Gallery.
Saturday, February 15th, 2014

“the poems keep getting shorter/the explanations longer”: Leo Fitzpatrick at the National Exemplar

A young artist’s still-life portraits of poetry, now extended to February 22

Ena Swansea, Night and Day Reversible Sofa, 2014. Steel, auto body paint, burlap, fake fur, feathers, and computerized reproductions of paintings, on dye-sublimation casino gaming suede, 35.25 x 157 x 33.5 inches, Edition of 8, 2 APs. Courtesy of Friendman Benda Gallery. Photo: Christopher Burke Studio
Friday, February 14th, 2014

Night and Day: Ena Swansea, Reversible

A show of paintings and a sofa at Friedman Benda, through February 15

Philip Pearlstein, Two Female Models on Cast Iron Bed, 1975. Wash on Paper, 29-1/4 x 40-1/4 inches. Courtesy of Betty Cuningham Gallery
Tuesday, February 11th, 2014

Camp Blanding: The Naked and the Undead in Philip Pearlstein

His show, curated by Robert Storr, is at the New York Studio School

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

Still from Breaking The Frame: A film by Marielle Nitoslawska with Carolee Schneemann
Wednesday, February 5th, 2014

Film Joy: Marielle Nitoslawska on Carolee Schneemann

“Breaking The Frame” at Anthology Film Archive thru’ February 6

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