Pawel Wojtasik at Smack Mellon
The size of the projection is matched by the scale of its content.
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: 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.
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 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.
Carl Fudge: Dazzle at Ronald Feldman Gallery
Sometimes Fudge seems to be searching for hidden sweet spots in the harmonics of recognition.
Mercedes Matter at the Weisman Gallery, Pepperdine University
There’s an internalized severity to her art; its fierce angularity suggests an appetite for sensual abandon constrained by geometry, argues HEARNE PARDEE
John Himmelfarb at Luise Ross Gallery
February 18 to April 17 511 West 25th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues (212) 343-2161 The veteran Chicago painter and printmaker John Himmelfarb has recently turned to sculpture in a variety of mediums. Several delightful examples of his foray into the third dimension are now on view in a rousing show entitled “Geared Up,” … Continued
Louise Belcourt at Jeff Bailey Gallery
February 17 to March 27 511 W 25TH Street, Second Floor New York City, 212 989 0156 Clouds and shrubbery, water and air have long been insinuating themselves into Louise Belcourt’s lusciously brushed color fields that otherwise can seem bequeathed from Friedl Dzubas or Helen Frankenthaler. Belcourt raises the stakes of this mingling of painting … Continued
Seeing Out Louder: Art Criticism 2003-2009 by Jerry Saltz
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