When, earlier this fall, I had the chance to examine an extensive group of recent paintings in Lois Dickson’s Columbia County studio something that became very clear was the particular nature of development in her work, whether within a given canvas or from picture to picture or across this segment of her mature oeuvre. Ludic … Continued

Brenda Goodman: Work 1990-2010 at John Davis Gallery until August 15

A TOPICAL PICK FROM THE ARCHIVES: 2010 Studio Visit marks residency/show at La Galleria La Mama

This was an artcritical PIC in September 2009.

Fran O’Neil at John Davis Gallery

John Davis Gallery 330 West 38 Street New York, NY 10018 212-244-3797 February 3 – February 26, 2005 According to F. David Martin, in his great book “Sculpture & Enlivened Space,” haptic perceptions are “feelings of things and events inside the skin.” On one level John Cross wants the viewer to discover the lovely patterns … Continued

John Davis Gallery 330 West 38th Street, Suite 511 New York, New York 10018 212-244-3797 January 6 – January 29 Lois Dickson paints what Cézanne called the “bones of nature.” Her primary subject matter here is bracket fungus, or asymmetrical rows of scalloped spores that grow on fallen trees, and other types of fungi with … Continued