Posts from March, 2008

Alexander Ross at David Nolan Gallery

His new show opens Thursday, October 30

Gustave Courbet

As a painter, Courbet ravishes a nude in the same manner as he would a tree or a trout: for the visual evidence of its expressive physicality.

Ruth Root

For an abstract painter of her generation, the older distinctions between figurative and abstract art, or between politically critical art and the consumer products of mass culture cease to have much importance. Perhaps that is why her essentially cheerful art shows no signs of th angst which inspired so many of the pioneering Abstract Expressionists.

Fay Ku

Like Henry Darger, Ku refers to a mindset populated by children who undermine confidence in the world as it is. She presents disturbing tableaux, meditations on transgressions that make no sense, that seem to come out of nowhere.

Sean McCarthy: I Think of Demons


Luc Tuymans

In Luc Tuymans, you are never allowed to forget that the source is banal and secondary. Painterliness underscores alienation rather than ameliorating it.

Stanley Lewis

Lewis’s unfailingly authoritative skill for painting real, rich and crystalline light, joined to his muscular composition, is the key to his power and success.




Tauba Auerbach, Daniel Buren, Sol Lewitt, Mike Quinn, and Robin Rhode at Perry Rubenstein Gallery

Bingyi Huang at Max Protetch
