Just go. I can't even talk. It's great, as was the last show, and I'm sure every show before that: Tom Uttech at Alexandre Gallery. Gallery Link |
These drawings! |
Blown out detail - Uttech |
At Yares, a museum-level Frankenthaler survey not yet posted on their website. Don't let that stop you: just get there. Uttech's painted world is mysterious in a different way than Frankenthaler's; he bores in; she retreats. How she structures a painting remains both enigmatic and rigorous. Gallery Link |
1980s |
1980s |
1960s |
1950s - oil |
Continuing the theme of great painting: Lucien Freud's appropriately titled Monumental at Acquavella. Gallery Link |
Weird late one--@ 2006 |
Also in the aughts--a shift in the paint handling around 2000. |
1990s etching |
aughts |
Details - circling back to the 1996 masterpiece... |
After seeing the above exhibitions, Daniel Heidkamp's Elevated States at Half Gallery came as a bit of a shock: the stylized shapes, the saturate color. |
After the scraped, pulled surfaces of Freud, these brushy paintings at first 'read' quick. |
But there's an insistent vision, involving finger forms. |
They're good. |
The stars compelling in this night landscape. |
Full-dress deKooning survey at Mnuchin. Gallery Link |
Truly brilliant, bravura landscape painting |
Over and under, push and scrape! |
Jointed forms, record-keeping. |
Moving into the 80s work. |
And back in time, too, to the Women. |