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Critics
THOMAS McEVILLEY [posted March 12, 2013] Thomas McEvilley, 2011. Photo © Lawrence Schwartzwald. (No reproduction without express permission.) Like so many other great art critics before him (and, let’s...
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Jaffe
Shirley Jaffe, The Gray Phantom, 2009, oil on canvas, 80 by 78 inches. Installation at Galerie Gerta Meert, Brussels, 2011-2012. Shirley Jaffe emerged from the crucible of gestural abstraction with an...
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Bluhm
Artistic development often contains a large degree of unpredictability. While there are some artists who for decades remain entrenched in a single mode (Josef Albers, Giorgio Morandi), many more end up...
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Colescott
Robert Colescott, I Gets A Thrill Too When I Sees Dekoo, 1978, acrylic on canvas, 84 by 60 inches. Collection Rose Art Museum. Like many others, I have often repeated the orthodoxy that the early...
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Cavellini
Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, Theater of Self-Historicism, 1970s. Courtesy Archivio Cavellini, Brescia. Outside of Italy, the work of Guglielmo Achille Cavellini (1914-1990) has long been a well-kept...
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Beckmann
Max Beckmann, The Argonauts, 1949-50. Chamber Music (after Max Beckmann’s The Argonauts) 1. like the Argo You’ve lived like the Argo, always answering to the same name. While others fell in...
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Eustache
We’re in Paris in the early 1970s, among 20-somethings who, in the long hangover of May ‘68, frequent the cafes and bars of the Left Bank planning films that rarely get made, talking about books that...
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Bishop
James Bishop, Having, 1970, oil on canvas, 77 by 77 inches. Courtesy David Zwirner Gallery. The painter James Bishop is the unnamed subject of “Interlude III” in my article “Provisional Painting 2: To...
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Matisse Etc. (part 1)
Influence is only interesting when it results in something unexpected, when it jumps languages, generations, mediums, styles, when it is not immediately recognizable as such. I’m thinking about...
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Matisse Etc. (part 2)
(Amy Feldman, Stanley Whitney, Bernard Piffaretti, Laura Owens, Michael Krebber, Matt Connors, Rebecca Morris, Patricia Treib, Lori Ellison, Franklin Evans) How is it that someone who dreamed of “an...
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Mueller
Stephen Mueller, Euterpe, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 70 by 80 inches. Courtesy the Estate of Stephen Mueller. Many are the darts thrown at abstract painting just now. Dismissive epithets...
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Edwards
Melvin Edwards, Route des esclaves, 1995-99, welded steel. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York. There are times when, as a viewer, you become intensely aware of the richness of contexts,...
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Reinecke
Chris Reinecke, Gesichtsgelle (mit Kaffeetasse), 1965, ballpoint pen and felt-tip pen on paper, 10 5/8 by 13 1/2 inches. All images copyright Chris Reinecke and Dr. Susanne Rennert, catalogue editor,...
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Gasiorowski
Gérard Gasiorowski, Les Symptômes: Aro Gu Rerec, 1983, acrylic on canvas, approx 8 foot 2 inches by 6 feet 6 inches. Collection Adrien Maeght, Saint-Paul. As far as I know there has never been a solo...
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Thomas
Gwenn Thomas, Flag, 1993, photo emulsion on linen, 30 by 44 inches. All images courtesy the artist and Art Projects International, New York. Photo credits: Bill Orcutt. With unforgiveable...
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Van Buren
Richard Van Buren, Bennington V, 1970, polyester resin, milled glass, plaster, glitter and dry pigment. 41 by 21 by 14 inches. Courtesy Garth Greenan Gallery. Years before I saw any of Richard Van...
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a poet in his late 20s
A poet in his late 20s begins to feel too restrained by his medium. Looking at a sheet of paper on his writing desk, he sees it as a plan-view of a house and realizes that he wants to escape the page,...
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