Criticism
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
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Andy Warhol, Rorschach, 1984. Acrylic on canvas, 158 x 110 inches. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Purchase with funds provided by Laura R. Burrows-Jackson, Baltimore; and partial gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. © 2010 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Mitro Hood
Monday, June 21st, 2010

Mysterious to the End: Andy Warhol’s late work

Andy Warhol: The Last Decade at the Brooklyn Museum.

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

Contrapuntal Infinitudes: Il Lee at Art Projects International

For some 30 years Il Lee has exclusively used, and abused, ballpoint pens.

Hearne Pardee, Hearne Pardee, Birch Lane, 2010. Acrylic on Paper, 12 X 19 inches. Courtesy Bowery Gallery
Friday, June 18th, 2010

Hearne Pardee at Bowery Gallery

This image was featured in the May 2010 listings

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Dawn Clements at The Boiler (Pierogi)

One senses that drawing is how Clements comes to grips with her surroundings, whether those stimuli are constructed, imagined or discovered.

Michael Goldberg, Sam Wells, 1962. Oil on canvas, 99-3/4 x 88-3/4inches. Courtesy Knoedler & Company
Friday, June 4th, 2010

Michael Goldberg at Knoedler & Company

Given their extraordinary force and paradoxical restraint, these paintings represent the kind of psychic change that distinguishes the fifties from the sixties.

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.