Abstraction
Homage à deux
Ross Bleckner @ Petzel Photography still holds and guides us; even after nearly 200 years, it is an incredible painting tool. So, when I read that Bleckner was using Cy Twombly’s photographs of flowers as source material for his new…
Marden & Stella
edited 2/6/2025 What’s acceptable once you’ve been accepted? How far will we go to create something different, to defy other people’s expectations? In the last post, we discussed Pollock’s later work and how it disappointed his main man Clem Greenberg.…
2025
edited 2.22.25 A couple of experiences changed my mind this year. The first involved a double encounter with Christopher Wool’s work – one overlapping with the other. At the beginning of the Summer, I went downtown to a wonderfully fucked-up…
MONDRIAN80 – Norte Maar
Paul Goodman on Modrian80 @ Norte Maar.
The Magnificent Corpulent Modernist Era
“There are a lot of people now globally that are happy just to make art and not keep up with arguments about what kind of art. And the form most favoured is expressionism.” Matthew Collings twitter. There are days…
Paul Corio – Seen in New York: January, 2015
To begin: A special thanks to Henri Art Magazine for providing a new home for “Seen in New York” after the untimely demise of Abstract Critical. I’ve been genuinely enjoying chronicling the broad reemergence of abstract painting in New York,…
Pittura Fresca
Ventana “Oysters With Lemon,” Part I. January has been a bit dreary, but Ventana brings us color, form, beauty, wit and charm! Get out to see the show!
Dennis Bellone – Broken Field
“We can now modify Constable’s dictum and propose that art seeks the pure apprehension of natural fact wherever natural fact, as registered by the senses, is regarded as meaningful reality. Where it is not so interpreted we shall find some…
Popular Culture – Academy of Paint II
In our first post on the Academy we showed a similar use of painting techniques and photo appropriation by three contemporary artists; Koons, Oehlen and Walker. All three were appropriating “public” imagery and then attacking that imagery with “paint” using…
Update
Just a quick mention of a couple of things. The fabulous Jackie Saccoccio has put together an ongoing collaborative show for the Art Production Fund at 15 Wooster Street- BlueBalls examines the transitory nature of the creative moment, the acquisitive…
