February 2012
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HEDONISM IS BACK THANK GOD
Based on 3 shows in New York right now- Allison Miller, Nolan Hendrickson, and the subject of this post, Terry Winters- I feel entitled to make the pronouncement: HEDONISM IN PAINTING IS BACK. Let there be color, sensuous surfaces, and entrancing patterns. Terry Winters is showing at Matthew Marks Gallery until April 14.
Tesselation Figures (7), 2011, Oil on Linen, 80 x 76 inches
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Nolan Hendrickson 'New New Face'
At Ramiken Crucible in New York, Nolan Hendrickson paints large-scale acrylic canvases populated by figures in exercise-wear. The New Yorker writes that “the energy here is so infectious that one may be forgiven for wanting to cheer.”
New New Face, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 78 X 48 inches
Placeholder Eyes, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
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Stranger than anything we could possibly invent
Courtesy of Ernst Haeckel, wonderfully delicate drawings of the weird forms that lurk in nature. Makes me wonder, as an abstract painter, why I bother trying to invent imagery when the strangest, most magical stuff already exists? Some of it yet to be discovered? Thanks to Nicholas Johnson for the tip-off.
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Wil Murray, World Dominator
Wil Murray, born in Calgary, once of Montreal, now of Berlin (sometimes)….is having a show in his adopted city at Sur la Montagne Gallery.
Murray, in a field of flowers, blowing us a kiss. How sweet! Murray is also known for receiving an honorable mention in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition, for his painting “Sexe Maniac Maniac Maniac Maniac Maniac.“ If only there had...
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Sean Montgomery, Fine Artist, at Laroche / Joncas
The last time I posted about Sean Montgomery, he was painting small scale reproductions of wood grain, flannel, beer labels, and meat. Elements that added up to a pastiche of Canadian manhood, or more broadly, rural masculinity. For some reason, Japanese bloggers loved them. He has a show coming up at Laroche / Joncas titled “Avant Garage.” Cheeky as all get out. The opening is...
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Allison Miller in New York
Ugh I’ve been posting so much about NY lately. But when I stumbled upon this show, I just had to write about it. I posted about Allison Miller sometime in January, after coming across her work in Bob Nickas’ tome ‘Painting Abstraction’. Her work is eccentric, surreal, and magical. She did her MFA at UCLA, and has shown widely on the west coast, but this is her first...
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Provisional Painting: To Rest Lightly On the Earth
A lot of text being thrown around on the internet re: Provisional Painting. Thanks to Two Coats for these links:
Part 1 of Raphael Rubinstein’s article on Provisional Painting in Art in America
Part 2
Sergej Jensen, Scary Eyes 4, 2011, stretched and sewn cotton
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Julia Dault and the New Museum Triennial
Toronto-born, Brooklyn-based Julia Dault is to be included in the New Museum’s Triennial, titled ‘the Ungovernables.’ She paints on unusual supports, including vinyl and pleather, and dances between painting and sculpture. The whole look is very sleek indeed.
Bunga Bunga, 2011, oil on costume pleather
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Untitled (Mega Brush), 2011, oil on canvas
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Marianne Hallseth
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The bright and wild thing, the only thing
Jerry Saltz exalts
Excerpts from her book of poems, Coming to That
The Dorothea Tanning Foundation
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Mike Kelley: More love hours than can ever be...
Interview, 1992
Jerry Saltz Exalts