Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Maven of Watercolor: Susan Shatter, 1943–2011

Memorial set for October 5 at the Century Association

Alexi Worth, The Formalists, 2008. Oil on screen, 54 x 36 inches. DC Moore Gallery
Saturday, September 11th, 2010

Jabber, Jabber, Jabber…

Artists and scholars let rip at SVA, the Studio School, the National Academy, et al, with new season of lectures and panels around town.

Charles Parness, Sometimes the Yoni Gets Angry with the Lingham 2007. Oil on canvas, 78 x 60 inches. Courtesy of the artist
Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Charles Parness at the National Academy

This was an artcritical PIC in April 2010.

Dorothea Rockburne, Angular Momentum, 2008. Watercolor on Duralar, 48 x 36 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York.
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Dorothea Rockburne at the National Academy

Dorothea Rockburne at the National Academy

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

The Unknown Blakelock at the National Academy Museum

In addition to his spontaneous brushstrokes, Blakelock explores a decalcomania-like technique of load, press, smear, and lift. This emphatically material-based process creates a raised, textural web of paint activity with a few scattered reds, oranges and yellows flecking a surface that is eerily similar to Jackson Pollock’s and as interesting to ponder.

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967-1975

Exhibition curated by Katy Siegel with David Reed

Friday, July 1st, 2005

Jean Helion

National Academy Museum 1083 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10128 212 369 4880 July 14 to October 9, 2005 Jean Hélion Essays by Didier Ottinger, Henry-Claude Cousseau, Matthew Gale and Debra Bricker Balken (English edition) Paul Holberton Publishing, London, 2004 ISBN 1-903470-27-7 a short version of this article first appeared in The Burlington Magazine One … Continued