Tuesday, April 30, 2019

I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet

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.
Gallery Link
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. 



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