Variations of Geometric Abstraction at Rosenberg & Co. An introduction to the linear abstract impulse as a new language to be understood, and as the bridge between the past and future... read more	Hongbin Kim and Yong Eun Kwon Kim and Kwon feel the fear of life for its offering great stresses of modern life, which sculpt us into the pearl-hood that makes us human. read more	UNINHIBITED at Ivy Brown Gallery Federica Patera and Andrea Sbra Perego create a room-size installation, consisting of the tangled confines of twisting strands of wire... read more
Painting Deconstructed This group exhibition at Ortega Y Gasset is an ongoing thought processes, parts of a perhaps eternal reconsidering of an endlessly flexible art. read more	Interview with Jonathan Goodman and Miki Carmi and Tamy Ben-Tor: Text Book was a project wonderful platform for artists to communicate through words, images, typography, and design. read more	Seung Jun: Carrier Pigeon Jun develops a new repertoire for his symphonic vision of pigeonic abstraction, where fragments of narrative and memory coalesce into a single abstract vision. read more
Stepping Into a World III This was more than just an exhibition; it was a celebration of artistic diversity and cross-cultural engagement bringing together artists from Japan and New York. read more	Choose Your Fighter! II This show at Marvin Gardens is not just about the choices artists make but also the ones we make as critics, curators, and collectors when we choose which artists to endorse or defend. read more	Michael Findlay What Findlay’s book does give us is an account that is in parts journalistic, an eyewitness testimony, reminiscences, as well as a personal chronicle with commentary. read more
Frederick Kiesler Review by Jonathan Goodman An accurate understanding of Kiesler might consign him to the margins, where his work would be seen as both accomplished and strange. read more	Arcus @ Rachel Uffner Gallery The Arc. It has been an iconic and symbolic shape in architecture, religion, and art throughout the millennia. It is a form that caves inward, protecting its center. read more	The Boiler - residents exhibition The artists in the exhibition arrive at the material idea/vision, in which paper is a material that becomes the paint strokes, the abstract forms, and the symbolic imagery. read more
The Art House The Bailey House "Art House" fundraiser: an evening honoring multidisciplinary visual artist Mickalene Thomas as the recipient of the 2024 Gina Quattrochi Arts & Legacy Award​. read more	Sun Young Kang Despite the primacy of photographs and drama of exhibition design, "Memories, veiled" does not work toward the ends of immortalization; there is no epistemic play or fiction to distinguish it. read more	Hobong Kim "Unfamiliar Time, Unfamiliar Space," features pale, neon pastel-toned oil paintings and small cardboard works of everyday scenes in New York with Astro Boy... read more
Terry Rosenberg These paintings are intimate links to a self-reflective consciousness, devoid of cognition, a continuous stream of sense data in which past, present, and future interpenetrate... read more	Judy Ledgerwood Ledgerwood’s spontaneous color markings hold enough weight without overdoing line or color. The reddish-orange sun at its center is larger, more viscous, laughing with a mouth of blood. read more	Himeka Murai had primarily worked on abstract pieces until now, this installation is highly experimental, related to reality, and contains a personal narrative that was absent from her previous works.  read more
Americans in Paris (1946-1962) The Grey Art Museum does an excellent job at shedding light on a few corners of the American historical narrative previously left in the dark, such as the place of African-American artists, or that of influential but under-recognized non-painter female figures such as Claire Falkenstein or Sheila Hicks.	Franklin Einspruch In figurative painting, there is a school of artisans who clearly want the viewer to follow along with each intentional gesture and apprehend the “why” of the artist’s decision-making process... read more	Nan Ring Imbued are levels of uncertainty that could be defined as a painterly casualism, an aesthetic model of the past ten years or so given to irresolution, applied here to semi-abstraction. read more
Maurizio Cattelan "Sunday" at Gagosian... much more than a trickster, deliberately uses an unsettling whimsy to undermine the materialism of both the American unconscious and its ostensible greed. read more	Mutualism a performance by Eileen O’Kane Kornreich and gigi murray ...movements synchronized with the sounds, drawings made according to the movements, and the shadows cast by the movements... read more	Photographic Encounters at the State Silk Museum, Tbilisi Each photograph is equal parts archival and abstract, clinical documentation of silkworms’ life cycles and anatomies imbued with visual flair. read more
Regina Hann One of those causes for the dying reefs is human consumption – hyperbolized by the sort of commerce taking place in the mall - and ironically, by the people who would purchase Hann’s art. read more	Saba Farhoudnia The complex understanding of human experience exhibited in this work represents the duality we must face in our day-to-day lives, as we try to redirect raw emotion towards productive outlets. read more	William N. Copley at Kasmin Copley emerges as the epitome of a sophisticated outsider artist, traversing various spheres with references that oscillate between the common and the high-minded. read more
Beau Dick strikes the viewer as the incomprehensible and the outlying other… the angels and demons who have been rejected and discarded within a human-centric perspective… read more	Piero Dorazio and Mary Obering Bortolami, The Upstairs at 39 Walker, New York This exhibition offers a profound glimpse into the enduring relationship of two artists. read more	Idris Khan: Repeat After Me at the Milwaukee Art Museum, review by Saul Ostrow Khan's works are rooted in the practices of appropriation, and quotation, in which the work in question is openly derivative from another. read more
Bebonkwe Brown upholds substantial longer histories of Indigenous abstraction, advocating for its highly influential, yet largely omitted relationship to painting of much more recent colonial art histories. read more	Sonya Rapoport: Digital Mudra ... Made years before the World Wide Web and contemporary AI, it anticipates many of the problems with search engine algorithms and machine learning tools and that are not immune to cultural biases. read more	Christopher Wool: See, Stop, Run ...is a symptom of disenchantment with the limitations of the gallery system, appropriately symbolized by these tangled balls of fencing punctuating the entire display at regular intervals. read more
Ugly Beauties marks an important moment of institutional validation for Hackett since this commission resulted from an annual competition by the Van Alen Institute in partnership with Downtown Brooklyn. read more	Bill Pangburn Pangburn's poetic abstractions, often in the form of vertical scrolls, address our need for something beautiful to see, especially in a city where life is visually chaotic. read more	Accommodating the Object Raditsa and Yamin pair effectively, their works are characterized by their bright yet cohesive color palettes, broad brushstrokes, and complex structures. read more
In the weather of it [Below Grand review by Logan Royce Beitmen] ...takes us on an open-ended journey, as much great abstract art and lyric poetry does, which neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night can keep us from enjoying.	Eileen O' Kane Kornreich [audio interview and exhibition review] Eileen’s work is very reminiscent of the Picasso quote, “It took me four years to learn to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” read more	Michael Ambron [Interview] It's interesting to think about color through personality because they have such unique qualities. There is often a correlation between what the pigment is doing, literally and maybe metaphorically. read more
No One Thing, David Smith [review by Jonathan Goodman] Smith did not work in conscious oppositions necessarily. His methodology simply happened. Instead, The artist’s duality of innocence and experience was best adumbrated through form, and Smith was a master of form.	Zoe Leonard This monumental photographic series, meticulously assembled over six years, traces the 2,000 kilometers of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo river, delineating the border between Mexico and the United States, a boundary significantly augmented by the wall erected to stem migration.	No One Thing, David Smith Late Sculptures @ Hauser & Wirth [review by Saul Ostrow] By retaining its industrial aesthetic and abandoning its strict geometry, Smith was able to wed the formalism of Constructivism to the improvisational ethos of AbEx.
George Rickey at Kasmin Gallery Rickey’s work is based on an understanding of European sculpture, its emphasis on a formalism that he gravitates to as an international artist ... his form is hardly an American virtue, being instead the appreciation of an abstract leaning we cannot geographically identify.	Dorothy Liebes In the 1950s and 60s, Liebes shifted away from her more individual, elaborate tapestries for lucrative clients like Doris Duke and the United Nations, prioritizing the production of home goods like pillows and rugs, based on the post-WWII-ideal of creating and sustaining a home-front worth returning to.	Loy Luo When Abstraction Complicates Culture: by Jonathan Goodman We must recognize Luo’s insistence that she is painting abstraction, and there is a good chance that this may be at least partly true. read more
Harriet Korman In Korman’s work, as in Barré’s or Bishop’s, we aren’t in an idealist Modernist world anymore, but neither are we in an ironically referential Postmodern one. We are, one may say, one foot in the phenomenological experience of painting as an object, and one foot in the conceptual realm of painting as an idea.	Ed Ruscha [Exhibition review by Jonathan Goodman] The intellectual vacuity Ruscha promotes is a trick of the mind. He regards America as biased toward materialism he sees as an unspoken tenet of his art, although the artist is careful about where he stands. read more	Frank Stella The Indian Birds is the first series where Stella, expanding his exploration of painting as mark making and perhaps perceiving mark making as surfeit, displayed a kind of unintended post-modern ambivalence about it... read more
Tomoko Amaki Abe Abe has been able to transform duration into something physically palpable. Her art, then, turns on a paradox: time, always an abstraction, must somehow find a physical base to offer the ideas behind such measurement. read more	Ran Hwang Asian Artworks Gallery in Busan, South Korea includes two-dimensional works, three-dimensional sculptures, and site-specific installations whose subject speaks to the artist’s engagement with the life cycle. read more	Isamu Noguchi A Glorious Bewilderment: Marie Menken’s Visual Variations on Noguchi. Graham and her dancers approached Noguchi’s forms from different heights, distances, and angles, examining every inch of their surfaces... read more
Animating the New Hero [Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College, CUNY] The animation of the heroic culture is different; it takes an ancient theme and pursues it via contemporary electronic technology while renewing the hero image. read more	Sui Park “Jeong” as the Unifying Force on the Structures of Reality. When we look at Sui Park’s organisms woven with microfilaments, we see one structure leading to another and another, yet there is no source or origin. read more	Reeve Schley ["By the River" exhibition review by William Corwin] Mountains in Schley’s visual glossary are not intimidating landscape features but are analogous to the rocks as markers of season, time, and temperature. read more
CRISTÓBAL CEA Varied 3D versions of monsters interpret the depictions in the retellings of 15th and 16th century explorers—then colonizers—of the American continent, who exoticized and mythologized the landscape and people... read more	Brice Marden at Gagosian, NY [review by Saul Ostrow] Marden made a wide variety of drawings, most importantly was a series of web-like expressionist ink drawings that were titled the "Suicide Notes". These drawings were the antithesis of his paintings ... read more	Giorgio Griffa ["OCÉANIE", Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, exhibition review by David Rhodes] "The paintings are transfers of experience past, contingent memories, open still in their evidently transient passages of rapturous color." read more
Russell Maltz ["Breaking Blue" at River House Arts, Toledo, exhibition review by William Corwin] From brush, to glass, to gritty architectural backdrop, the artist’s hand is consistent, whether the medium itself is regular or inconstant, whole or fractured. read more	Michael Brennan Brennan’s paintings reference the world, or rather, they seek the world as a template onto which impressions, associations, history and imagination coalesce. It is as if the original Platonic image is not a specific referent, but a changeable, evanescent shadow out of which something iconic emerges. read more	Bobby Anspach Memorial Exhibition by Joanna Seifter Anspach’s installations are incredibly precise, emulating the disorienting yet contemplative effects of psychedelic drugs in three-minute sessions. read more
Sienna Reid and Franck Hodelin It always exciting when two very different artists find common ground, especially when that shared space is sexy, controversial... Curator Wade Bonds adroitly paired Reid and Hodelin based on their fascination with flesh... read more	Lydia Nobles "In The Waiting Room" presents a visceral manifest of abortion in the sculptural shape of women's respective individual experiences. Nobles becomes an interpreter of the unspoken emotions women endure during this challenging decision. read more	Jonathan Wateridge "Afterparty" [review by Carin Riley | Nino Mier Gallery, New York] Wateridge’s interiors and exteriors are site specific, like a photographic location shot, and sublimely rendered and convincing. read more
Wings of Desire [Review by Stephen Gambello] at Lichtundfire Gallery, curated by Priska Juschka, details the hunger, the very ache, of fulfillment. Desire offers the opportunity to maintain the maximum efficiency of a conscience:  apotheosis!  read more	Naeemeh Kazemi [Leila Heller Gallery: by Jonathan Goodman] The wide range of allusions found in Kazemi's work convinces us that in current art practice and also in current nature, breadth of interest enables the painter to choose what to concentrate on. read more	UNAMERICAN UNFAMOUS Clive Holden deftly juggles the many signifiers which contribute to contemporary notions of fame—most notably who is being photographed, and who is taking the picture, to these questions, the artist offers a very poetic answer of anonymity.  read more
Gahae Park There is indeed a fixed rationality to almost all Park’s work, so that the forms tend to play out in a highly formal manner. But the rationalism informing the art is offset by the overall design, which maintains a tight continuity from one element to the next. read more	Post Human IV - Spaceship Soup [closing party Aug 25 /312 Broadway Brooklyn] Tom Levy and Tobias Ross-Southall's curation serves as an illuminating meditation on the profound transformation of human-technological interplay. [image Tom Levy] read more	RYMAN / GODWARD Besides retaining the physicality of sculpture and the absence of paint, what unexpectedly connects Ryman’s and Godward’s shows was their shared oblique approach to flatness, overemphasized for Ryman, sidestepped for Godward... read more
Peter Dudek: American Sculpture 1951 Artist Book Launch: BravinLee Programs AUG 16 6- 8 pm Entropy becomes the performative aspect in Peter Dudek’s conceptual reimagining of an exhibition catalog entitled “American Sculpture 1951.” read more	Invisible Hands "Invisible Hands" examines the hardships of domestic labor, the prevalent racism within their hierarchy, and the remarkable ways each individual transcends the seemingly mundane, laying the foundation for dreams to flourish. read more	Georgia O'Keeffe: MoMA O'Keeffe enjoyed stylistic freedom not available earlier when a strict realist regime held sway. But neither was she so distant from 19th-century realism that her heart was forced to reject figuration as a means of working. read more
Transatlantique Transatlantique is first about the question of an artworks reception from the two sides of the Atlantic, North-America and Europe. It is Rahard’s belief that artists have a crucial role in this question of reception, and this role has been underexposed.  read more	Eva Petric Petric believes the strength of art in general lies in its ability to communicate complex ideas through symbols vested with significance. “We need these kinds of metaphors and symbols to access these realizations... read more	Carol Bruns The sculptures suggest a continuity between contemporary, expressive art and the artifacts of traditional cultures, in which masks, costumes, and sculpted objects connect the everyday with the world of the spirit. read more
Helia Chitsazen @ Fou Gallery [review by Rory Martin] Chitsazen has burrowed between various genres of art and found a niche that is distinctly and undeniably her own, placing gentle interactions some in a comfortable living room others, lonely in a sterile environment. read more	John Mallett [review by Stephen Gambello] Mallett is not an illustrator. His purpose is not to illuminate another's story, sell a product, or promote anyone else's agenda. These are his intimate visual journals of day-to-day living. read more	Cecily Brown at the MET [review by Jonathan Goodman] Brown's excess, or because of it, her thick swirls of paint ... demands a broad understanding–the paintings seek both the fervent energies of the new and the gravitas of work done long ago. read more
Laura Dodson [review by Mario Naves] In "Nostalgia" at Soho Photo Gallery, Dodson transforms photos through means that nod to the handmade--the collage aesthetic is paramount here--but nonetheless embrace 21st-century verities. read more	Chromocommons [review by Joanna Seifter] In an era of bleak late-phase pandemic minimalism, the Opening Gallery’s proposition of a contemporary Divisionism, one so radiant and enticing it envelops three-dimensional environments, is exciting. read more	Beyond Mud [review by Jonathan Goodman] Yet clay, or “mud” as this large show calls it, communicates something old, more lyrical in its earthen substance than the hard rectilinear lines often found in modern steel sculpture. read more
"Out Of Joint" [review by William Corwin] The Boiler in Williamsburg, now the home of the Elm Foundation, has become a febrile intellectual terrarium of sorts ... five visual artists and a dancer inhabit the space and allow their works to expand and evolve. read more	Samuel Ross [review by Hannah Hightman] “Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.” Ross’s work challenges this notion. In an interview for Friedman Benda’s CULTURED, Ross remarked that “to serve well, you must be truthful.” read more	Mary Hrbacek [review by Thalia Vrachopoulos] Hrbacek highlights the idea of renewal, healing and regeneration of life. She transforms the humble tree into visual images that can be considered spiritual yet simultaneously of contemporaneous concern... read more
TOUT VA BIEN [review by Saul Ostrow] Tout Va Bien is clearly being used by the gallery to metaphorically link Kerlidou’s abstract works and Scott Williams’ modest sized paintings of cars wrecks executed in a painterly realist style. read more	TOUT VA BIEN [review By John Mendelsohn] “all's well” – hints at an underlying attitude that informs the pairing of two painters, Gwenaël Kerlidou and Scott Williams. Taken from Jean Luc Godard’s movie of the same name ... read more	"Totem and Taboo" [Lichtundfire review by Stephen Gambello] Inspired by Sigmund Freud’s foundational work "Totem and Taboo", this exhibition delves into the two extremes of society: the revered and the reviled. What are the sources of these two extremes? read more
“Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art” [review by Joanna Seifter] La MaMa and Lehman College Gallery’s two-part exhibition, “Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art”, celebrates themes of love, community, and unwavering individuality... read more	Elissavet Sfyri [interview] "I find myself drawn toward artists whom I admire for their work, values, and shared interests, regardless of their nationality. The need to label nationalities and gender preferences of the people we work with or associate with remains a dilemma." read more	Elli Chrysidou and Heejung Kim [review by Jonathan Goodman] Curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos, "The Power of the Gaze" at Paris Koh Fine Arts features the eye motif in an effort to examine the understanding of this symbol in western and eastern sensibilities. read more
Sara Graham [in conversation with Alejandro Tamayo] "Cut-Outs, Offcuts, and Cast-offs" at Art Windsor Essex focuses on the relationship between the built environment and the landscape it occupies, examining how they connect and disconnect. read more	Yvonne Pickering Carter [review: Berry Campbell Gallery] This exhibition is part of an emerging movement to recognize Carter’s prolific career, much of which has been under-documented, intentionally minimized or unjustly ignored by the greater public. read more	Aura Rosenberg [review by John Mendelsohn] There is an intriguing exchange at work here, with Rosenberg using the experience of her own inner adventurous disquiet to create challenging works that reverberate in our own consciousness. read more
Henry Taylor [review by Saul Ostrow / Henry Taylor @ The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia] "Nothing Change, Nothing Strange" alternates between the themes and iconography of the black experience, labor, trade, migration, historical events, housing ... read more	Daniel Giordano [review JDJ Tribeca] Giordano uses a combination of traditional art materials and processes with the unexpected which are both an extension of Daniel’s playfulness, as well as his intense desire to push the limits of sculptural arts. read more	Mahreen Zuberi [review by Joanna Seifter] "Exercising the Border" Anita Rogers Gallery Zuberi has a keen ability to represent how time surpasses intervals or even life cycles–her artworks, traversing the past, present and whatever the future may hold. read more
Pierre Dunoyer Dunoyer’s work is characterized by an emphasis on large vertical formats, with a monochrome ground and thick brushstrokes seemingly applied at random. The formal evolutions -so to speak- in his work are few and far between. read more	Michele Araujo Araujo’s works have a period aura, they are not nostalgic nor are they post-modern contrivances or simulacra. These works are neither eclectic nor a pastiche, so while other artists may come to mind, no one particular artist is Araujo’s source. read more	Darja Shatalova The installation "1030 Days" provides a creative means of processing personal experiences and emotions, while also serving as a historical record capturing the emotional and cultural impact of the pandemic in a way that official statistics cannot. read more
Hans Hartung at Perrotin, NY [by David Rhodes] The surface and color of Hartung’s paintings today at Perrotin are challenging, and remain extraordinarily fresh and still stand outside the mainstream of accepted or fashionable painting. read more	Ultimate Beauty - Tenri Institute Curators Adachi and Sato, in choosing to work with artists from all over the world, forcefully emphasize the worldwide esthetic driven by extensive travel, work made in places distant from each other by the same artist... read more	Michael Snow 1928-2023 [by Saul Ostrow] Snow’s work does not fit the progressive and developmental model of what an artists’ career is supposed to look like. read more
Lucio Fontana [exhibition review by Jonathan Goodman: Hauser & Wirth through FEB 4 2023] Fontana is clearly a master, both in theory and in practice, his work does not follow the clean lines of modernism. read more	Rodney Zelenka Zelenka appears determined to construct a world in which art not only presents but also ameliorates suffering. His paintings of Martin Luther King and the Dalai Lama underscore the possibility of public and private change, respectively. read more	Magdalena Dukiewicz [exhibition review: Ivy Brown] In Body Turns Object, and throughout Dukiewicz’s growing body of work, the artist hosts a conversation on identity through abstraction. In her own words, “self vs other” is always present. read more
Kyung Youl Yoon [at the New York Hall of Science (Queens)] Yoon’s abstract paintings can be taken for what they are: highly sophisticated visuals that must be understood on formally independent terms, as efforts that do not reflect identity. read more	Shary Boyle Boyle's show at Sargent’s Daughters is delightfully unnerving with comforting elements of whimsy and play merged with the uncanny eeriness of subtle, sinister details. read more	Julia Kissina [Interview] "Poetry helps, as does magic. However, this is not the kind of poetry that squirms in universities. It is free daily poetry - the sympathetic magic of the real." read more
Yong Shin Cho [Interview with Jonathan Goodman]"My work deals with universal questions such as desire, social and cultural conflict, pain, memory, wounds, and violence, rather than culture-specific themes or issues." read more	Dr. Gindi [essay] Self-Laceration Beyond Recognition, transcends our finite being, experiencing the unadulterated infinite through our recognition of the other [...] Our first response to mortality is the urge to take leave of our being. read more	Xu Suyi [by Echo He] Xu Suyi brings us into a mystical world and gently closes the door behind us. Past this point, the artist's work is complete, and the rest can only be assimilated through the viewer’s experience and imagination.  read more
Cohen, Butler, Heilman, Yankowitz and Jiménez [by Saul Ostrow] From their work I have concluded that they challenge the tradition of abstract painting from a position that is more nuanced than that of the reductivity and negativity of modernism, which  required the simplification of very complex situations. read more	Ethan Minsker [interview] "Regardless of what I do creatively, it’s all one thematic style. And that is exploring the child version of myself. I work with paper mache a lot. I do a lot of films where there is handcrafted animation. The stuff I write in the books and zines it’s always from the perspective of the young adult struggling with adulthood and transformation."	Sao Tanaka Tanaka’s strength lies in her ability to put together highly finished compositions that make use of tradition to establish the present, in ways that regularly remain abstract, but also often figurative, often encompassing floral imagery. read more
David Mellen / Ivy Brown Gallery If Mellen’s paintings orchestrate a complexity derived both from an intricate style and equally complex notion of painting’s ability to cross boundaries and conception in a time of considerable eclecticism, it makes sense he would end up creating a full vision out of different, not necessarily easily joined, particulars.	Jonathan Prince While post-modernism feeds his interest in fracture, non-linearity, craft, technology, surface and precision, not as subjects to be elaborated or confronted, but instead to be aesthetically presented. In this sense his work is indexical. read more	Shirley Jaffe The contrasts and ambiguities are all given equal voices, equal weight, and equal time, so much so that it feels as if Jaffe was trying to compress multiple paintings into a single image. ​read more
Shuling Guo: Fou Gallery, NY The works in “Sotto Voce” depict Guo's surroundings as an amalgamation, combining everything that she has seen and felt during a significant period in her journey. read more	Frédéric Bruly Bouabré ... his work constitutes the complex process of modeling a new global master-narrative for those post-colonial peoples who are struggling to devise a modern cultural identity rooted in their traditions and colonial experiences but not bound by it. read more	Rotem Reshef My work seeks to strengthen our compassion and concern for the surroundings as a corrective and healing response to environmental destruction. read more
Miki Carmi and Tamy Ben-Tor “Text Book” and "Archive" two book reviews: Ben-Tor and Carmi rely on a general sense of political malaise, different from identity politics, that is eating away at our social vision and creative individuality. read more	Singing in Unison It is impossible to characterize the broad array of styles available to the viewer; we have instead a democratic grouping, highlighting the multiplicity of today’s art. read more	Seung Lee Lee’s reliance on abstraction is as marked as his realist renderings. They often occur within the same painting. Of course, mixing influences in art has gone on for about as long as art has been made. read more
Russell Maltz Maltz has been using paint and color since the beginning of his “Stack” works, first with industrial grade paints and then fluorescent colors, as a way to bring and hold together the disparate elements of the stacks. read more	Fereidoun Ghaffari Ghaffari is looking to attain a deep understanding not only of himself but also of painting as a vehicle of tacit concern. Given to thick applications of paint, regularly resulting in a rough surface, he finds ways of intensifying his metaphysical longing. read more	Michael Eade The Chthulucene narrative in Michael Eade’s landscapes rejects certain ways of seeing and natural historic perspectives, which are implicated in colonial histories as well as human-centric, progress-oriented motivations. read more
Hisako Kobayashi at Georges Bergés Gallery Kobayashi’s paintings generate a quiet atmosphere. They are windows to a world of contemplation, in which silence and stillness hold sway. read more	Debra Drexler The lyric element of “Flirt” (by Helen Frankenthaler, image) is undeniable, and Drexler, a painter herself of poetic sensibilities, is offering a good number of works to accompany Frankenthaler’s wonderful, evocative image. read more	Nicola Ginzel "The frottaged marks are gathered for the purpose of an ‘energetic transference.’ ... these marks substitute the metaphysical role of the nail-tree talisman being the container for suffering and a possible catalyst for change." read more
Katie Hubbell Hubbell represents a new generation’s eschewal of a three-dimensional practice determined by modernist formalism. Her installations are nonetheless coordinated from one element to the next, and offer entire involvement of the space she develops... read more	Nishiki Sugawara-Beda When Sugawara-Beda’s work hovers between something recognizable and something not, its theme is one of both tonalities of tint and subtle implications of readable form—although what the form is, we are not quite sure. read more	Hayoon Jay Lee Lee’s art is directed to a spirituality, visually presented, that addresses a deep sense of longing and the Buddhist conception of existence as transitory. Thus, she clarifies for many the evocative mystery of time’s passage. read more
Simon Hantaï "Is SIMON HANTAÏ The Last Giant?" by Gwenaël Kerlidou & "Simon Hantaï – painting structure, and processes" by Saul Ostrow. A Discourse. read more	Abstract Geometries The Hillier College of Architecture and Design Gallery at NJIT spring exhibition features artists Gianluca Bianchino and Kati Vilim, abstract geometric paintings and wall reliefs in the manner of assemblage or multimedia sculpture. read more	Daru Kim Formally, the paintings come close to being palimpsests: surfaces in which layers of imagery build overlays that add to the sense we are not only looking at the paintings, but we are also looking into them. read more
David Mellen Mellen's work is not easily defined, vacillating between human flesh and metaphoric representation, the paintings beg you to look deeper and to consider their physical properties. read more	Sherri Hay Let's Not Go Back to Normal There is an interior logic to the work, the constraints are liveness not machineness and so there are no solenoids or hinges for example... differential of weight and balance. read more	Interview with John Monti My work has always had conceptual concerns and a desire for the representation of “things.” I have always been influenced by art and architecture cross-culturally, both historical and contemporary; materials and “craft” are at the core of that interest. read more
Aglaé Bassens Hesse Flatow, NY By emphasizing the realistic, Bassens is not only joining the past but also establishing a direction for art in contrast to New York’s predisposition for non-objective painting. read more	Sofia Quirno Quirno regularly eschews definitions sometimes, too, the paintings can be seen as abstract efforts, in which the abstraction is indirect and unceremonious–and also free of the emotional dramatics of abstract expressionism. read more	Dave Hickey (1938 - 2021) Hickey raised the issue of Beauty not in some high-minded, elitist manner, but as a social issue. ... he espoused the view that the best art creates a community —amongst dissimilar but engaged participants and in this resides beauty. read more
FUSION “Fusion” at the gallery LTD, Brooklyn brings together four discrete approaches to art making with little immediate similarity, the objects and paintings are allowed to breath, giving the viewer space to draw their own connections. read more	Deville Cohen / Tommy Mintz Is there any parity between the artificial eye and the human?  Both “Time After Time” and “Hand to Mouth” raise the question and explore the sometimes intrusive, often incongruous aesthetic of artificial intelligence.  read more	un/mute Austrian Cultural Forum, New York. “un/mute” is clearly meant to display both a new way of working and the often-unrecognized strengths of collaboration, the show is interesting in part because of a similarity of expression... read more
Denise Carvalho Carvalho’s paintings seem to have layers building on top of each other like a palimpsest. The intricacy of her paintings creates a dense format, in which both linear and abstract forms build over each other, massing in ways that take up the entire composition. read more	Naomi Andrée Campbell Within the nearly endless freedom we find in this work, we also come across Campbell’s determination to bring about a scenario that does in fact have some rational motive. read more	George Mathieu Genre-Bender: Mathieu's ambition was to make improvisational marks and forms, which preceded their potential symbolic meaning. read more
Iliana Ortega Ortega is taking a chance, in the sense that water has been rendered in art for centuries, and a continuation of its theme might be viewed as something archaic or even artificial. read more	Bill Pangburn The eclecticism we are seeing so much of is not without its ethical complexities--appropriation can be aggressive in nature, or respectfully attentive, if seen as something done out of admiration. read more	Fragile Anxiety A conversation between the artists Yasi Alipour, Cy Morgan and Phong Bui at Geary Contemporary Gallery 208 Bowery. "Mutual Convergence" is on view through August 20th. read more
Julia Kissina The artist’s ongoing question, “How can this gap (the gap between our public self and our prejudicial desire) be described?”, is central to Kissina’s skepticism regarding social posing, part of cultivated life for a long time now. read more	Richard Rezac Luhring Augustine (Tribeca) Formalism is inherent in Rezac’s work and his willingness to create works of idiosyncratic inconsistency, in which the temper of the art evades history for a self-sufficient existence. read more	Richard Mock Painter, sculptor and an irrepressible political cartoonist, Richard Mock (1944-2006) is primarily remembered for his linocuts, and a prodigious selection of these are presently on view at the Kentler International Drawing Space in Red Hook. read more
Schlitz and Riley Travelling Lines at Smudajescheck Gallery Schlitz and Riley work up to a fever pitch of closely managed chaos, which fittingly corresponds to Boethius’ fifth and last chapter... read more	Ivy Brown An Independent Gallerist in a Time of Convention: "The way I decide to show an artist is subjective; I need to be inspired not just by their work but also by their execution. The work tends to be unusual yet timeless. " read more	Jason Stopa "Joy Labyrinth" at Morgan Lehman Gallery Stopa’s use of high-key and pastel colors, and intuitive logic makes his formulaic formalism appear to be soft, humorous, and lyrical. read more
Melanie Daniel "No Man's Land" Asya Geisberg Gallery There is a purposeful tension within these aesthetically vibrant paintings, as these prominent political themes remain unanswered and unchanged. read more	FELD and REAGH At The Painting Center: Feld and Reagh might both be called traditional artists which proves in these times a historically aware approach can be made new and keep our interest. read more	Georg Baselitz "In his wish to reinvent a historically based genre, Baselitz made the correct choice; the abstracted, hard to read results remind us that the new ways of seeing can be awkward at first but yield exciting results." read more
Agnes Martin The Distillation of Color : Pace Gallery, New York "Martin’s paintings at first, appear to be simple formalist propositions emphasizing flatness and all-over-ness — yet, with time, it becomes apparent they are not that simple." read more	Locus Chen "The interesting thing about Chen’s work is that little or no conflict exists in the influences of the two countries she has lived in." read more	Interview: Jayne Johnson founder / director of the Ice House, a gallery in Garrison, New York. "The space is an actual former ice house now renovated and used as the site of innovative art programming." read more
RenqianYang Renqian Yang focuses on a more abstract level of depicting and conveying various feelings shared by humans—“tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on” (Rothko). read more	Will Corwin @Geary, NY "Green Ladder" Corwin uses his “ladder” at times as a device which functions formally as both abstract and referential; similar to Jasper Johns’ targets and flags. read more	Gordon Hall Hall’s domestication of abstraction adds a layer of common realism to an otherwise elegant presentation of form. Doing this increases the complexity and value of the pieces, whose double existence enlarges the way we see them. read more
Kristin Osterberg: From the Inside Out Osterberg’s current exhibition at The Painting Center is a focus on paintings made during COVID that are an exploration of longingness and loneliness leading up to the present. read more	Shinichi Sawada Venus Over Manhattan "Much of what Sawada does feels like the development of a personal mythology; he has made, in part, a bestiary based on very old spiritual traditions in Japan." read more	Manika Nagare "This double accomplishment moves Nagare away from an imitation of a historical style into an original exploration of experiences we can explore only as suggestions, as they are beyond our experience." read more
HUM Zine Artists Kristel Jax and Tasman Richardson are publishing curated walks (Toronto,ON) for the present where self care is increasingly important as many are isolated. read more	Yasue Maetake Maetake’s art is composed of a mixture of unusual materials: animal bones, seashells, steel, brass, copper, cotton pulp, and synthetic clay. The works are ad-hoc improvisations that reject the tenets of linear geometric modernism... read more	Alix Bailey at The Painting Center, New York The formal poses of the young people Bailey puts forth in her art claim a different point in time than the often abstract artwork we come across today. read more
Miyako Yoshinaga In an interview with Jonathan Goodman, Yoshinaga reflects on her 30 year career in the arts, her gallery's recent move to the Upper East Side and the aesthetics of Japanese photography. read more	Mie Yim at Olympia, New York "Psychotropic Dance", is Yim's first solo exhibition at Olympia and is an abstract world of horrifyingly adorable creatures. read more	Luo Min at Time Arts Gallery, New York All cities are composed of myriad unrelated circumstances, and it is the painter’s job to put them in linear and thematic perspective. read more
Jack Henry Studio visit; "I want to recreate the majesty of wilderness while showing that it has been corrupted." read more	Yun Choi at DOOSAN Gallery, NY Choi is responding to current conditions in the New York art world, its penchant for a conceptual and socially committed approach. read more	Per Adolfsen at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel "We are living in a time of liberated expressionism in art, but Adolfsen’s understanding moves in a different direction." read more
Polycentric Images John Jay Art Faculty: The pre-eminent position of modernism has been vanquished in favor of an eclecticism and pluralism in this group exhibition... read more	Robert Yoder Interview: "It seems I'm always thinking about loss, and how that crushing melancholy just seeps into every action and thought."  read more	Davis Stern Stern’s paintings need not be seen as ghosts of the past, although one intuits that German art history of the last century is alive within them. read more
Nadja Pelkey "Shared Air" This series of images are created from the same 35mm negative of the shared air between Detroit, MI, USA and Windsor, ON, Canada. read more	Miao Xiaochun Collaboration with the Future Miao Xiaochun lives and works between Beijing and Berlin. He is a professor of photography and digital media. read more	Costas Picadas Costas is taking a risk--his untrammeled vision of the forest, along with the romantic music he uses to accompany his video, could be criticized for observing a sentimental perception of nature. read more
Shuling Guo Guo believes the most important essence of art is to evoke ubiquitous but precious memories and emotions that dwell in every human-being... read more	Bryce Kroll Kroll's work raises intellectual problems of ethical use in a time when we are moving in the direction of greater and greater ecological awareness in art. read more	Rusudan Khizanishvili "As with any artist ultimately all my paintings are about my own being and what I am going through although expressed through various narratives and figures. " read more
Susan Bee We are living in a time when the male canon is being challenged, and Bee nicely moves into a place of resolved ambition in light of work done by male painters before her time. read more	Interview with Desktop Girl "My generation has never experienced such an extreme scenario, not only due to COVID19, but also our political, economic, and environmental troublesome reality." read more	Allen Morris Interview: "For me Home is the place that you can truly feel comfortable existing, and this is not something to be taken lightly particularly in the current political climate." read more
Susan Chen "On Longing" at Meredith Rosen Gallery through September 26, 2020 "Chen’s paintings make sense as documents of a new era." read more...	Yojiro Imasaka "“Correspondence,” the show of photographs by Hiroshima-born, New York-based photographer Yojiro Imasaka, is the result of the covid virus quarantine. Isolated by the citywide shutdown, Imasaka went back to images shot during his trip last year to Japan, developing more than fifty gelatin silver prints by himself."	Hong Bian "If we think about it, the very idea of an abstract calligraphy seems paradoxical, but maybe this merger is an accurate conception of an art that Hong Bian wants very much to be of her time." read more
Joe Andoe at Almine Rech "The paintings might be characterized as eccentric, but so be it--they are so marvelously detailed that their psychic reality becomes believable in light of their painterly existence." read more	Supraliminal Space at TussleProjects Exhibition review by Jonathan Goodman "The work gathered in this online show, of unusual quality, bears witness to ways of thinking and seeing we have mostly forgotten." read more	Amy Bassin at TussleProjects Exhibition Review by Miklos Legrady "Bassin’s humble material transcends limitations to a spiritual degree." read more
Giorgio Griffa At Casey Kaplan Exhibition Review by Jonathan Goodman Griffa is an artist of conceptual probity, as well as being a painter intent on solving contemporary visual problems. read more...	VANESSA THILL "Why must enlightenment take place only in the countryside, where the landscape may well become both a backdrop for and actual evidence of a hidden world, but which is now slowly being destroyed and is considered a better place than city life for developing spiritual potential?" read more	Terence Koh: Diary "Often the imagery revolves around a single figure, who may be surrounded by a pattern or looking off the edge of a cliff. The metaphysical conceit implied by these offbeat drawings is not one necessarily of psychological ease or comfort." read more
"TOUCH" at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery "The notion of touch evidencing not only physical but also psychic and esthetic connections is a notion highly worth considering our current quarantine." read more	“Pendulum of Time” at Lichtundfire Exhibition Review: "The six artists in this show each present a more or less abstract indication of how time might move, or even sway, in the face of its representation. " read more	Ida Kohlmeyer at Berry Campbell "The diamond-shaped designs hold our interest by building a narrowing focus into the very center of the paintings ...They offer a kind of artist’s vernacular; the shapes repeat themselves and create links joining one painting to another." ream more
Miguel Trelles An Interview: "the series of questions posed here will help the reader gain not only some sense of Trelles’s esthetic, but also his deep connection to the under-recognized Latino art-world..." read more...	Mary Lovelace O'Neal Mnuchin Gallery "Chasing Down the Image" Exhibition review "...it is just as important or more to emphasize the imaginative freedom evident in her paintings." read more	John Bradford at Anna Zorina Gallery Exhibition Review: by Jonathan Goodman "Bradford’s personal inheritance gives him a certain authority in managing the historical drift of his art. " read more
Jean-Marie Appriou by Jonathan Goodman "Appriou demonstrate an awareness of conceptual problems in public sculpture today, as well as the recognition that horses have been abused in New York City in a contemporary sense." read more	Rubenstein Collection at The MET by Jonathan Goodman Ranging from Gericault and Delacroix to Juan Gris and Juan Gonzalez to Philip Guston and Dorothea Rockburne. read more	Wendy Letven Exhibition review by Liang Hai: In the past years, her focus on creation has gradually transferred from interpreting the literal environment to exploring possibilities of abstraction. read more
Yun Hyong-Keun at David Zwirner Yun Hyong-Keun was a major artist--and, more than likely, a great one. His range of emotion, in these charged, near monochromatic paintings, is marked by a sober intensity bordering on tragic vision. read more	Dragon and Maidens - Sobin Park Sobin Park, originally from Korea, now lives in Beijing, where she maintains her studio. By inundating the work of art with so much weighted drawing, Park can sometimes lean far toward tangles of black that can seem isolated. read more	Review: Pat Passlof Review by Jonathan Goodman "Passlof moved easily from one kind of vision to the next, being usually tenaciously abstract. The art seems to have been linked by both experimentation and by witnessing the past--one cannot be sure..." read more
Studio Visit: Anna-Sophia Vukovich "I feel that making art is this kind of living breathing relationship, and so I have found that location and place does make an impact in terms of what is happening in the work." read more	Science and Healing An Interview with artist Yanzi Zhang Any category of art should have an experimental spirit. Every discipline should experiment. It is open to question whether it is necessary to build a special school of experimental art. read more	“The Pencil Is Key" The artists being shown at the Drawing Center were jailed not so much for what they expressed as for what they believed or even simply for being who they were; usually, the art they made, unlike a writer’s political texts, was not considered an actionable offense. read more
Bill Traylor at Zwirner There may have been a time when this body of work would have been called naive or outsider art, but that time is past; moreover, such simplistic terms don’t do justice to the complex subtlety of Traylor’s artistic production. read more	Antonia Papatzanaki "Microscopies" Consulate General of Greece in New York As a demonstration of contemporary visual thinking, the exhibition reveals the artist’s determination to work out compositions whose execution relays the smallest kinds of systems found in nature. read more	“Wonder without Land” The Orange Foundation This exhibition displays extravagant examples of a self-sufficient esthetic, whose idiosyncrasies cause them to visually stand out, as well as communicate an ironic reading of current lifestyle expressiveness. read more
David Lynch at Sperone Westwater "squeaky flies in the mud" Lynch’s bricolage works are immediately and incredibly dark. The materials are calamitous and dirty, requesting profundity and perseverance to the framed narratives read more	Lee Bul at Lehmann Maupin The paintings are of fragmented forms, ostensibly an attempt on the artist’s part to, once again, merge biomorphic and cybertronic shapes into a gestalt notable for its double attachment--to the human figure and to a technological compositional arrangement. read more	Fleur Helluin An Interview: "In my painting, there are many abstract elements. In the Herakles series, the design of the grass is made to be a repetitive surface. It’s imaginable to have a full painting of it, becoming an abstract composition." read more
Jaanika Peerna: Cold Love New York-based Jaanika Peerna at the large alternative space, Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. Her work is very much performance-based, in which she comes close to modern dance while interacting with an audience in making drawings on paper. read more	DIAPHONER with Iain Baxter& & Anatoli Vlassov Here, Iain Baxter&man proposes words of his thoughts to Anatoli Vlassov. Words come from the mouth of one artist to land in the glottis of the other. A flesh of words that swallows and puts us in motion. read more	Michael Eade To adore spirits in ordinariness; to pursue eternity from the minute. Living in reality, pursuing the ultimate ideality beyond reality has always been a lifelong goal of most artists in history. - Exhibition Review by Liang Hai read more
Collective Palimpsests: Lichtundfire A group show, curated by gallery director Priska Juschka, is composed of the work of five artists: Augustus Goertz, Allen Hansen, William Rosen, Alan Steele, and Christopher Stout. - Exhibition Review by Jonathan Goodman read more	Robert Frank 1924 - 2019 "Social problems are always suggested in Frank’s melancholic, but highly accurate art, which presumes that the American dreams have deep rifts in its fabric." -Jonathan Goodman read more	Eva Hesse Drawings: Hauser & Wirth Eva Hesse (1936-70) is the kind of artist whose brief, brilliant creative life has permanently captured the public’s imagination. Fashioning works made of resin, rope, and wood that are so decidedly contemporary they seem to have been made yesterday. read more
Amphibious Eye Project; Art Mora Ha Eul’s photos are exquisite records of buildings made under often taxing circumstances, but what first meets the eye is his merger of water and building, in an imagery in which the fluidity of the former both supports and, to a degree, diminishes the solidity of the manmade. read more	Han Qin: "Ethereal Evolution" The therapeutic power characterizing Han’s paintings recently attained a new form of expression which could affect a much broader domain. Once she earned herself a bigger exhibition venue, dance-like movements of her figures finally got the chance to break through the pictorial surface. read more	Unloading a History of Violence; To Build a More Compassionate Culture We are sharing a statement by Heather Hakimzadeh, a curator at Virginia MOCA, in response to the mass shooting in Virginia Beach on May 31st. read more
Triada Samaras "While it is very dangerous to read life symbolically--too often it locks into place events and feelings that should remain free-- in the case of Samaras, we interpret the imagery as a conduit through which we can achieve what we are capable of--the best of what we are." read more	Interview with Harold Wortsman "I never know exactly why a work of art influences me. It can seduce, touch or move. Understanding and reason follow later. I have never tried to fit myself into any style or school. If there is a consistency of style in my work, it is not by intent and arrives almost by default." read more	ANH-THUY NGUYEN: "Organon" Assembly Room -- curated by Banyi Huang "In Organon, the processes adumbrating the visuals are distant enough from the imagery that it is hard to connect motivation and idea with practice." read more
Hisako Kobayashi: Deep Waters "These works of art must be among the quietest I have ever come across; the Japanese penchant for reticence lies in the center of what the artist does." read more	de Kooning: Five Decades Mnuchin Gallery Exhibition Review by Jonathan Goodman A show like this affords us the chance to see de Kooning both work out and repeat insights about Eros and painting (and, slightly, sculpture). He is an artist of extraordinary natural gifts, which the open ambience of American culture of the time enabled him to develop into a body of work that will stay with us in history. read more	Polke/Nauman at Eykyn Maclean, NY By Jonathan Goodman Sigmar Polke and Bruce Nauman represent two of the most respected names in recent contemporary art. The drawings come from the Froelich Collection--Josef and Anna Froelich are collectors based in Stuttgart who have been building up visual anthologies of a small group of German and American artists. Their perception of contemporary art is exceptional, as this small show demonstrates. read more
Renqian Yang and her Porcelain Prose by Zi Lin It was like anything I had seen before. The first impression of objects like this would be a dead coral excavated from bottom of ocean. Or would it be a frozen bonfire? One thing I can be sure that if the word porcelain indicates something like a Chinese vase or a coffee mug or a Tasse, then the maker of this piece of porcelain has already gone very far. read more	John Baldessari Hot & Cold: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Exhibition Review: Baldessari who was dubbed the “patron saint of postmodernist art” is a master of appropriating images and adding or removing conceptual elements to shift the viewer's perspective and create new visual statements. read more	SPRING/BREAK 2019 Fact and Fiction Spring Break was conceived by the Brooklyn based duo Andrew Gori and Ambre Kelly. This year’s Spring/Break theme "Fact and Fiction" was inspired by today’s topsy-turvy political climate. “We thought, Well, since high stations of office are calling into question what most people would consider factual, maybe it’s a good time to explore how artists inhabit paradoxical spaces," Gori told ARTnews. read more
David Urban: Lonely Boy Corkin Gallery, Toronto Painting came through writing for David Urban. His academic studies in philosophy and poetry led to essays on painters and painting, which clues he then followed by taking up the brush. The Lonely Boy series characterizes visual language by playing variations on a theme. A Grecian figure is tested in each painting with different postures and colors. read more	Tron 209 by Bruno Billio The visual environment of Tron 209 by Bruno Billio, an installation at his suite in the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, reminds us of the futuristic sets found in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 Space Odyssey. read more	Interview with Jahi Sabater "I look to photography’s early history as a starting point in my work. Certain movements in photography, like the surrealist and early modernist images, have been an area of interest. I have also explored early photographic processes and techniques; images from instructional photo books and vernacular photographs." read more
Ellen Hersey & David McDonough While Hersey explores uncertainty towards the body and image through avenues of reassembly and the dichotomy of natural and created setting, David McDonough’s paintings come closer to prolonged cartography of individual existence. Even the first encounter with these paintings is like seeing an old friend. read more	How To See Light with LYNN UMLAUF "The eye is continuously searching for a threshold, a place to begin, be it with the symmetry, action, and discord or within the in-between subtleties." read more	Richard Brautigan Library Project "I did this project to pay homage to Richard Brautigan. He has been a huge influence on my writing style and even the way I look at everyday life. He was a such a unique observer of the world. I think that if you are an artist and strongly influenced by an artist that came before you, it's only right to pay homage to that person in a way that they might be proud of. If Brautigan could see my library, I'm pretty sure he'd get a good kick out of it." read more
The Importance of Looking... Interview with Julia Loughlin "I like to fill in the whole surface and create a color space, and I'm usually thinking about the sky, or a shadow I saw earlier. I keep it really open and subtle at this point. From there, my process is slow! I like to take a lot of time to look between making moves." read more	Interview with TANSY XIAO Tansy is an independent curator and art journalist, founder of Raincoat Society: a non-profit organization that features artists with fluid identities and multiple backgrounds, in the hope of bringing equal opportunities to the under-recognized without cultural stereotypes. Having lived and traveled in 50+ countries, Xiao received her art education in hundreds of museums and thousands of streets worldwide before moving to New York. read more	Mahmoud Meraji by Ashley Johnson "In our Western experience, nudes are commonplace, but Meraji is using the 'academic' style to address Eastern perceptions of the body. This exhibition could not take place in Tehran and Toronto becomes a neutral ground where it is permitted. He will not be banned or bloodied here and can give voice to the need to embrace women as a whole. Redemption!" read more
Madame Lupin IMMERSIVE ART EXPERIENCES "When our audience comes to our events, they don't know where they're going to (an abandoned factory, a library ?) so they don't have any bias. And that's important because that puts them on an equal level with the art. And on the top of that, we create a whole storytelling (before and during the event) and scenography to make the exhibition immersive, using light, music, performers and mystery communication." read more	L U M I S E T The musical duo, Lumiset, from Sweden debut album is inspired by snow. The album is released on an interactive website. read more	Studio Visit with Rachael Gorchov “I began using a Claude Glass, a convex black mirror popularized in the 18th century to move away from a photographic point of view that seemed to be present in my paintings.” This shift in dimensional perspective allows Gorchov to draw from her ‘eyes’ perspective. This is inherent in her work because it feels more like drawing from life. read more
Ethereal Space: Christiane Löhr Lohr’s works on paper explore what happens when white space is bifurcated and sub-divided and how the act of line on paper is both an act of violence and creation. From a distance, they look like traces of movement across a topography. Lines link together like chromosomes telling the story or our shared human history. Approaching the work reveals subtle fingerprints, the maker’s seal left behind - the fingerprint being not unlike the seemingly random lines that comprise these works.	"REPETRA C" A Short Film by Sonja Berta "Repetra C is born from the internet itself into the physical world where she searches for true happiness with the help of the guru". The knowledge of the internet is within her but she can't access it like in the matrix, there is no driver just her and the guru whose guidance is as confusing as it is helpful. read more	Amanda Konishi: Studio Visit "I grew up reading a lot of gag and newspaper strips, a few Japanese comics in my early teens, but really fell in conscious love with the medium when I discovered alternative comics..." read more
YDESSA HENDELES The Milliner’s Daughter at The Power Plant can be described in a language of emotions. Ydessa Hendeles’s work resonates even on Google Images; we call it chords of curiosity. But Emily Carr said it best; “Oh, God, what have I seen? Where have I been? Something has spoken to the very soul of me, wonderful, mighty, not of this world. Chords way down in my being have been touched. Dumb notes have struck chords of wonderful tone”. read more	Victor Romao: Growing up Rural "In Sigmund Freud's essay titled Das Unheimliche", or "The Uncanny", he describes how a severed human limb can cause one to experience uncanniness due to our fear that it may still move, though we know it's not possible. This combination of fear and confusion is a result the familiar clashing with the unfamiliar and visa versa. I'm also playing with the words "limb" and "violence"…as in the act of severing a part from its host." read more	IdeasCity New York "You said that I had inspired you once with an experiment where I showed that a simple piece of paper could become structurally strong simply by wading it up and then unfolding it. The un-crumpled paper could not hold itself upright but the crumpled paper could. You imagined we would each find strength in the wrinkles." -Craig Dykers, snohetta read more
A CONVERSATION WITH CJ "The current situation of art is very much geared towards people becoming more aware of things and people opening their minds and stuff like that. Artists are definitely at the forefront of that because we are not rushing to work every day so we don’t have to worry about that. We are thinking and what we are having thoughts and what we are thinking about becomes a reality and kind of creates our attitude and our disposition." read more	Rebecca Chaperon " My approach to painting is something I am always fiddling with but I am inspired by storytelling. I like to create a sense of place and then populate it with living things, real and surreal. I like to have a general idea of the place and mood I want to create but I stay open to stream of consciousness as I paint. The story I begin with is vague but comes into clarity as I work, sometimes it takes a different direction from what I had expected." read more	The Photograph in Review - NYC For most of human history, people relied on the artist to provide a glimpse of that which was out of reach. In modernity, it is quite easy to take for granted the idea that we know that which we have not experienced in person in an often very intimate way. Before the cameras, you had to rely on the subjective experience of the artist to draw or paint or write or sing or tell stories about giant beasts and sapphire blue waters. read more
An Interview with Tibi Tibi Neuspiel "Feeding into this art world are schools which are far from any sort of academic meritocracy, rather they unabashedly flaunt and celebrate their ability to give credence to ones already existing status." read more	De-briefing Dar'a/Full Circle Are Arab and Muslim artists inextricably tied to their politics? Are these artists forced, by their circumstances, to utilize transhistorical references? London Ontario based artist Jamelie Hassan is not limited to a single medium. Instead, the material practice is a utility which is secondary to her overarching goal; the improvement of the arts and, by extension, the improvement of humanity. read more	An Interview with Amanda Burk Stories of Contentment and Other Fables by Amanda Burk. "One of the stories we often tell ourselves as humans is that we are civilized, but personally I am not sure that we are nearly as tame or as civilized as we pretend to be." read more
Total Eclipse of My Heart An Interview With Gavin Lynch Angell Gallery FEB 4 - 25 2017 "Growing up in northern British Columbia, I witnessed physical changes to the landscape from a young age; I have memories of camping on clear cut logging blocks, of watching the forest across from my childhood house gradually disappear, of seeing the devastation of forest fires.  All of which seemed pretty normal, growing up in a remote logging community." read more	Before The End An Interview with James Kirkpatrick "I look to work on surfaces that offer new unexpected challenges. I’m not limited to them being similar qualities to something I would have worked on outside but those early experiences opened me up to the enjoyment of using so many different things to create with." read more	The New Flesh Curated by Tasman Richardson At The Music Gallery, Toronto Saturday, January 21, 2017 Doors: 7pm | Concert: 8pm Featuring: Sherri Hay (New York) Bruno Ribeiro (Montreal) Jeremy Bailey (Toronto) Jenn Norton/Steph Yates (Guelph) Robin Kobrynski (Paris) Tasman Richardson (Toronto) Katie Switzer/Paul Moleiro (Toronto) "A circuit-bending, generative audio-visual presentation." read more...
Studio Visit with Richard Green Green generally only works with found objects and is well known for his work with found textiles. Green says that, “textiles embody the the same aspects/character of any art form - color, texture, design, content, intention. With a history of reflecting social, political and economic changes.” read more...	AIMIA The shortlisted artists for the 2016 Aimia | AGO Photography Prize have all shown works that share ideas of how the human body is viewed, used, and affected historically and presently. The flow of the space and the deliberate positioning of artists and their works have not only helped in creating the perfect ambiance, but it has also allowed viewers, like me, to naturally transition from one artist to the next seamlessly... Read our review and interviews with the four finalists...	Sublime City: Summering South of Detroit in Windsor - Essex County Decay and gentrification go hand in hand and are both thriving here, there is a fine balance and a strong community of people who have devoted themselves, not only to art but to the city. There is definitely a niche here to be filled as well as a compelling pull to be in the thick of it… read more
ELIZABETH ZVONAR AN INTERVIEW " We’re semiotically sophisticated. There is a danger in the way we navigate our visual landscape versus our ability to articulate and critique how this operates or what the long-term effects will be. We’re passive perhaps out of visual exhaustion." read more	TANYA AHMED Checked Out & Photographed "At 13 I was in the library sitting on the floor reading a career book on journalism and I came across a passage on photography, that’s the moment when I knew I was going to be a photographer." read more	RACHEL MACFARLANE STRANGE VITALITY "I want to relate this type of analysis of space to our new experience of mimetic space. Our spectrum for manufactured space, objects, characters and others has widely expanded. Painting is a media that has been used to unfurl the tangles of perception." read more...
The Armory Show 2016 Do you think that the high volume of artists in today's competitive art market keeps the work fresh or has it created a decrease in unique or important work? read more...	Sanaz Mazinani The Found Image: "I have been collecting images for at least ten years now. I grab screen shots and download images from news organizations and popular media sites. I am mostly interested in archiving current events, so that I may have a chance to think through those issues and perhaps work with them from some distance at a later point." read the full interview...	Rae Johnson by Miklos Legrady, February 6th, 2016 "we better get used to the fact that painting occupies a position all by itself, you can't get rid of it or deprecate it, it's unique."  read more
Stefanie Gutheil: THE HOME OF MR. PEEPS @Mike Weiss Gallery December10 - January 30, 2016 In this exhibition by German artist Stefanie Gutheil titled The Home of Mr Peeps, Gutheil's inner eccentricities set the imaginatorium stage high.  read more	TASMAN RICHARDSON Richardson's recent installation at Neubacher Shor Contemporary "Sphere of Influence, Circle of Protection" goes beyond the obvious questions concerning life and death. read more...	Studio Visit with Milena Roglic "I have been trying to take more risks with my new work and as a result, the spaces are becoming more layered, dense and even complicated." read more
ART WITH HEART The most important Art Auction of the year is happening on October 6th! read more	ALEX MCLEOD @ Division Gallery "Alex McLeod is a builder of imagined virtual worlds: dense landscapes and scenes as rich in texture as they are in information." read more	Studio Visit: ANNA PANTCHEVA "I am pushing my drawing practice to a more physical level; it’s been what feels like an athletic and grueling pursuit to excavate my graphite drawings and turn them into multiple 10 foot long 3D cut outs." read more
GIRL GERMS An Interview with Emily Gove Curator/Director at Xpace This exhibition was inspired by zines and mix tapes; the artists and works were selected in an intuitive, relational way. July 30th-August 22nd, 2015 Artists Involved: Lauren Cullen, Beth Frey, Katie Morton and Amy Wong Curated By: Emily Gove	The Chime @InterAccess Marc De Pape's first solo exhibition at InterAccess, The Chime, is on now until August 8. This exhibition features a completely new chime that has been redesigned, rebuilt, and returned to respond to visitors to InterAccess. The original chime is also on display, along with selections from Scoring the City, Marc's visual album created from the Chime's data recordings. read more	Loosening Identity: Ashley Johnson THE CHALLENGE Artists trying to make socio environmental paintings in the 21st century face a number of challenges. We are generally aware that aspects of our shared existence are in crisis and that remedial action needs to be taken to address issues like climate change, rampant capitalism, poverty and environmental degradation. read more
Laurianne Simon A young artist whose first exhibition in Toronto opens on July 12th from 4 - 6pm and runs until July 29th at the Montgomery Inn Museum. "My main inspiration for my work is the paint itself. I am obsessed with paint. The feel of paint. The materiality of the paint. I study paintings. Look at them in books and galleries. And paintings do not lie." explains Laurianne Simon. read more	Appetite for EXCESS Our pictures documenting the party and a pre-party interview with the Director of the Power Plant - Gaëtane Verna. read more	An Interview with WIL MURRAY "I’ve stopped paying attention to the stupid and cruel parts of the art world that want incessant novelty, and will murder and revive corpses in the name of it. These days I see painting as an ongoing question, a practice that must not maintain the market’s love of historical continuity. " read more
ELAINE WHITTAKER: SHIVER Whittaker strongly believes that we need to get dirty to survive. In this interview about her recent exhibition Shiver at Red Head Gallery we discuss the nitty gritty of her background and future plans for her work. read more	BULGER GALLERY AT 20 Bulger's story is one of hobbyist photographer turned successful photography gallerist / dealer, “In high school my hobby of photography veered into the direction of ‘fine art photography’ and became a full time passion while I studied at Ryerson... image: Copyright Sarah Anne Johnson, courtesy Stephen Bulger Gallery Three Wise Guys, 2013 READ MORE	Original Sin & Codeine Chronicles Mar 27, 2015 Robert Farmer and Ron Loranger’s recent exhibition at Project Gallery showcased their traditional styles. Farmer paraded Star Wars stormtroopers around the gallery like humiliated bullies wearing many colourful clothes including tutu’s and wonder woman costumes. Loranger’s famous blobet's incorporated sometimes surrealist and sometimes graphic drawing, honing a stream of conscious and a graffiti-esque style of poetry. read the interview...
TALWST The Toronto-based artist recently exhibited Minimized Histories: Marginalization and Unrest at the Art Gallery of Mississauga. The show consisted of miniature dioramas depicting scenes of human struggle and conflict. Talwst’s work is compelling as each mini sculpture is like a tableau, freezing shameful moments in history that, we as humans, are not proud of. read more	An Interview with Linda Martinello Chambers of Indefinite Extent @ PM Gallery until March 28th. Martinello’s recent paintings are her unique surveys of ancient places constructed from layered mylar with graphite and oils. These works manifest from geological formations of cenotes (a natural pit, or sinkhole resulting from the collapse of limestone bedrock that exposes groundwater underneath) across the Yucatán Peninsula in Southeastern Mexico. read more	Christie Lau's Animal Kingdom Human//Nature @Navillus Gallery March 5 - April 4, 2015 "As I learned about animals and their bizarre behaviours I saw that we already live in a world of such unexpected beauty and mystery, only we can truly seek it and it is more intricate and enchanting than anything I could imagine. In this way, I can see how the behaviours or themes I fixate on are those that are phenomenal." read more
An Interview with Daniel Faria Douglas Coupland: Our Modern World January 22 – March 21, 2015 Curator, Daniel Faria, speaks to us about Douglas Coupland's latest exhibtion, Our Modern World, at the Daniel Faria Gallery until March 21st, 2015. In this show, Coupland explores three series of work: Deep Face, Trash Vortex, and The MonteCristo. read more	Ark an Interview with Matt Bahen March 6th - 28th, 2015 at Le Gallery Matt Bahen’s recent installation of painting and sculpture at Le Gallery is a metaphorical expression. The immense installation of a black, fabricated hull of a ship tucked behind a faux wall is an ominous focal point to this new body of work. read more	LUMEN: Laura Madera February 21, 2015 "I think you can work to understand the nature of something, it's internal logic, it's properties - a kind of get-to-know-you symbiosis. Collaborating in this way I can obliquely arrive at some profound moments within a process; creating something approximating the terrible beauty found in Nature. At it's best there are glimpses, at it's worst piles of uninteresting visual gibberish." read more
I COULD SEE EVERYTHING An Interview with Margaux Williamson: January 25th, 2015 "I recommend that you watch her film Teenager Hamlet, read her manifestos, How To Dress In Our New World, How To See In The Dark, and How To Act In Real Life, and be deeply moved by her paintings…" read more	2015-06-21 – 2024-06-21 AN INTERVIEW WITH JENNIFER ROSE SCIARINNO: January 24th 2015 "I'm sure my personal relationship with time is much like everyones, except I've been told I sometimes have bad time management skills. Time to me feels linear, stagnant, fleeting but oddly malleable." read more	MIRROR MIRROR AN INTERVIEW WITH KINGSVILLE ONTARIO’S KNIGHT TWINS January 19th, 2015 "It was brought to my attention, recently, the story about the famous Knight twins from my Canadian home town of Kingsville, Ontario!" by Laura Horne-Gaul read more
PAT MCDERMOTT PAINTING THE IN BETWEEN: An Interview with Pat McDermott, January 10th, 2015 Pat McDermott received his BFA in 1989 from York University, Toronto. He currently lives and works in Kingston, ON. McDermott’s creations “are part of a language that describe and reveal a process… an approach that suspends the viewer’s understanding as a way to make the work resonate beyond itself.” read more	CELEBRATING KIM ADAMS @ the Varley Art Gallery, Sept 13, 2014 - Jan 11, 2015 "One For The Road” shows Adams’ one of a kind sculptures and installations made from repurposed, mundane objects found in our daily lives. Items such as toy cars, umbrellas, chairs, and a variety of things found at a local hardware store, are all taken apart and reassembled to make one beautifully crafted train wreck. read more	MARIANNE LOVINK something that could be is much more interesting than something that is An Interview with Marianne LOVINK @ OLGA KORPER GALLERY December 13th - January 24th, 2015 Private Parts by Marianne Lovink is a fantastical exhibition where organic meets non-organic. The idiosyncratic configurations appear to be crawling up the wall or flying through the air. This body of work is a continuation of Lovink’s interest in sensual, hybrid, ambiguous forms that relate to the human body. read more
PM GALLERY'S DECADE LONG SUCCESS Dec 1, 2014 I met up with Pm Gallery’s owner Powell MacDougall at the Toronto International Art Fair (TIAF) this year hoping to find out her little secret behind her innovative gallery located on Dundas Street West just after Dufferin Street. MacDougall recently celebrated her love for art with a Ten Year anniversary Show that showcased what her gallery is all about. read more	ART TORONTO 2014 OCTOBER 24 - 27, 2014 One of the more unique pieces was shown at Galerie Anita Beckers from Frankfurt. The Old Boy’s Club set up an interesting display of LCD projected animations on top playful illustrations. read more	LUNAR MAGIC OCTOBER 27th, 2014 Moon Room at Narwhal Contemporary was curated by Kristin Weckworth and emitted mystery and magic, engaging the powers that be. read more
THE WORLD IS VAST and YOU ARE NOT OCTOBER 4th, 2014 AMY WONG... "I’m basically an angry Asian feminist disguised as an oil painter. Hah! I’m occupying a space that isn’t intrinsically welcoming to me. It feels performative because it’s very simply about presence, asserting that presence, and being loud about it." read more	Stream of Subconsciousness Kathryn Bemrose Summons a Stream of Subconsciousness AUGUST 20th, 2014 Bemrose is striving, as Emile Bourduas once did, to transpose the stream of consciousness to canvas. Emile Bourduas was the founder of the Quebecois group The Automatistes in the 1940’s. “The present exists in response to the past. I find this difficult and challenging, which is why I am appreciative of the Automatistes,” explains Bemrose. read more	CARLY WAITO August 3, 2014 An interview with Toronto's very own, Carly Waito reveals the story and process behind her fascination with minerals and gems. read more
MATTHEW CARVER AUGUST 8th, 2014 Matthew Carver is a Kitchener/Waterloo based artist/educator. He has had solo exhibitions in Canada, Berlin, Malaysia and Singapore. His latest body of works are dystopian, fictitious interiors housing an intersection of his travels to the East with the West. read more	OP ART Re-Imaged: Imaginable Spaces MAY 21 - JUNE 21, 2014 Curated by Madi Piller and Kate Wilson The show was inspired by The Optical or Op Art movement, grandfathered by Victor Vasarely in the 1930’s, his imagery has fueled Piller throughout her life. “Op Art re-imaged: Imaginable spaces lives beyond the walls of the gallery - like a Vasarely painting.” (Madi Piller) read more	Paddy Leung MAY 31, 2014 It has been some time since I’ve caught up with Toronto-based artist, Paddy Leung. The last time I spoke to her, she was doing her quirky drawings - Paddy has since transformed her 2-D images to 3-D installations. Her playful creations can be found anywhere from gallery spaces, to store front window displays, to events, and children’s birthday parties. read more
Grazyna Adamska-Jarecka IMAGE OF DETACHMENT: APR 2 - 26, 2014 @Gallery M Contemporary Polish artist Grazyna Adamska-Jarecka shares with us her extremely personal and intimate self portraits. read more	Yang Cao & Susan Szenes FOUR: MAR 12 - 29, 2014 @Gallery M Contemporary A group exhibition showcasing paintings from four emerging, Toronto based artists. Susan Szenes and Yang Cao are two artists amongst the group that has caught my eye in this show. read more	Andrew Rucklidge and Max Johnston SHIFTER^HUNTER & DIMENSIONAL OSCILLATION : MAR 1 - APR 2, 2014 @Christopher Cutts Gallery New works by Toronto based artists, Andrew Rucklidge and Max Johnston read more
Tasman Richardson FEBRUARY 13th, 2014 Tasman Richardson, a Toronto video artist shares his impressions after showing his work at London Art Fair UK! Also a new body of work to be unveiled in the near future at Neubacher Shor Contemporary in Toronto. read more	Christy Langer JANUARY 1, 2014 Checking in with Christy Langer after moving from Toronto to Berlin. Her artwork will be making an appearance in Toronto in a group exhibition titled Op-Art Re-Imagined, hosted by the Toronto Animated Image Society (curated by Madi Piller) it opens Saturday May 24, 2014 at Trinity Square Video and the Women’s Art Resource Centre (both located in 401 Richmond, Toronto). read more	Lynn Campbell TEMPORAL MATTER: DEC 7-29, 2013 @ Loop Gallery “Living life as a continuum is pivotal…” Campbell’s latest body of work is elegantly and very precisely put together, the imagery is both futuristic and organic. “While thinking about this new work and how to overlay composite imagery, consideration was given to what is real, also the symbolic and the abstract. read more
Jose Bellver SCRAMBLE: JUN 6 - JUL 6, 2013 @Christopher Cutts Gallery José Bellver as a painter has a devoted awareness to colour, texture, and value. A further examination of the works assembled for Scramble, shows his sensibility to light, depth, and value as he plays with different textures and mediums that reflect light. read more	Rachel Ludlow GLITTER: APR 4 - 14, 2013 @AWOL Gallery Hair, diamonds, dazzling colour - a girls best friend? Why is femininity associated with such spectacle? We ask Rachel Ludlow whose recent exhibition titled “Glitter” at AWOL gallery displayed such eye candy. read more