Raggedy Ann's Foot: Bob Thompson and Elshemius at Rosenfeld, Flag Art Foundation, Unreasonable Sized Paintings at SVA Chelsea

Bob Thompson at Michael Rosenfeld (October 2015). Link below. Catching up on some wonderful shows; Thompson's work in this show was uneven but the quality was excellent. The above painting shows a real grappling with the subject matter that later on he jettisons in favor of a more abbreviated presentation.
http://www.michaelrosenfeldart.com/exhibitions/naked-at-the-edge-bob-thompson

Elshemius at Michael Rosenfeld.
Both these shows reviewed by Roberta Smith in the NYT 10/25/15 linking the artists' independence, love of the past, a "fixation of nudes in the landscape" and a "clumsiness that was both a limitation and a strength." This was my first exposure to this painter.

http://www.michaelrosenfeldart.com/exhibitions/naked-at-the-edge-louis-eilshemius

Ryan Sullivan at Flag Art Foundation in Surface Tension.
http://flagartfoundation.org/exhibitions/surface-tension/

Another painting at Flag I can't stop thinking about. You can see the painting in situ in the link above, but it is not credited. I love the surface, the imbedding of color, the sense of white with color beneath.

Joanna Pousette-Dart in Intimacy in the stellar exhibition
Discourse: Unreasonable Sized Paintings, curated by Phong Bui at SVA Chelsea
http://www.sva.edu/events/events-exhibitions/intimacy-in-discourse-unreasonable-sized-paintings

Love this work. Read her interview with Phong Bui (2008) here:
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/10/art/joanna-pousette-dart-with-joan-waltemath

Lisa Yuskavage

So good to see these small studies again,

and to gain a longer view of her work through time

Katherine Bradford

A Bradford that stopped me in my tracks: painter mind at work
film about Bradford's shelf paintings by Carol Saft can be seen here:
https://vimeo.com/109949109