February-March Runabout, Part II

Brenda Goodman's In a Lighter Place at Sikkema Jenkins, Jan-Feb. Gallery Link

A hard-won language of biomorphic shapes and geometries within incised surfaces that carry motifs from earlier works forward in a violent, yet pleasing way.

Judy Pfaff at Miles McEnergy (now closed). Gallery Link

Wild, lavish details of works that for me stayed too close to the wall.

From Sonic Albers, at Zwirner (Jan/Feb). Gallery Link

His compositions and chromatic combinations never get old, despite their formulating an industrial mode of production.  

Will enter this information as soon as I locate the gallery name at what I remember is 521 W 26th St. and shows historical paintings. But, I cannot trace this exhibition! The above is by a Japanese painter.  

Larry Poons at this unknown gallery (not Danese/Corey).

These were in the back room, by an Italian painter.

Works from a group show in another mysterious group show I cannot trace, but somewhere on 21st or 22nd St. in February.

Christopher Wool at the Hill Art Foundation. Here, a NYT link about the Foundation. Link about Hill Art Foundation (2016)

Jasper Johns at Matthew Marks, up through April 9, 2019. Gallery Link

The low palette is so gorgeous.

Homage to Matisse's Piano Lesson? It's all I can think of viewing this painting.

When Roberta Smith reviewed this exhibition, the photo of this painting did not come across, but in  person it is simply stellar. NYT 2/26/19 JJ Review

The turning over and over of a motif, like Albers above, has been supplanted, it seems in current artistic practice where sudden changes or collisions and shifts feel more immediate. The commitment begins to mean more and more with viewing, for both the visual discipline and the harking back to another period in time.521