Friday, October 22nd, 2021

Born Again Abstraction: Jonathan Lasker at Greene Naftali

A survey of his paintings from 1987 to 2020

"This is from last year when he is ill, but his optimism and his pleasure to be talking with friends overwhelms his physical state." Photo, with comment, by James Hyde
Monday, May 27th, 2019

“He Was Free and Brave”: A Garland of Tributes for Thomas Nozkowski

21 artists, critics and friends join editor David Cohen in remembering the late painter.

Tuesday, February 16th, 2016

Jonathan Lasker at Cheim & Read

Lasker is surely one of the most ambivalence-inducing abstract painters to have emerged from the postmodern storm clouds of the 1980s

Jennifer Wynne Reeves ,Place (4-43), 1997. Oil on birch hardwood, 12 x 16 inches. Courtesy BravinLee programs
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

Bathed in Grace: The Life and Work of Jennifer Wynne Reeves

Reeves anthropomorphizes abstraction in an ultimately humane way

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

Jonathan Lasker, Double Play, 1987, oil on linen, 76 x 100 inches. Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York.
Saturday, August 31st, 2013

Sentimental Education: Abstract Painting in the 1980s

The children of the 1960s grow-up into their paintings

Jonathan Lasker, Lesson in Reality, 2010. Oil on canvasboard, 12 x 16 inches. Courtesy of Cheim & Read
Friday, July 23rd, 2010

When Hypothesis Trumps Quality: Le Tableau at Cheim & Read

Le Tableau at Cheim & Read, through September 3, curated by Joe Fyfe