Juicy Paint

Brett Baker at Elizabeth Harris: DETAIL of his work's thick, striated surfaces and surprising color shifts

Missed his recent show but two paintings hung by the desk at the gallery.
The red one was equally beautiful with hints of copper, but iPhone couldn't pick it up.

Josette Urso at Kathryn Markell, a joyous exhibition. Urso's beautiful view in her Bushwick loft inspires her surprising tonal shifts and plays of the brush. I enjoyed the strange, cool color of this painting.
See another Urso if you scroll down.

Peter Wayne Lewis, who divides his time between northeast US and Beijing, in the 2012 Beijing Biennial.

The real thing at Skoto, also on 20th St. Skoto was a find: it features Jamaican artists' work.
The vibe was Salon-like, with conversations blooming in all directions, which is why I didn't photograph more.
Lewis works large, sometimes serially and there are also some lovely watercolors in back.

Inspired by and erudite in jazz, Lewis' marks suggest Chinese ink painting.

What in Chinese calligraphy is referred to as a "crossover"--
the brush jumps over paper to get to the other side of a mark, Lewis achieves with a scraper, it looks like.

Cora Cohen at Guided by Invoices, at the corner of 21st and 11th. What an absolutely gorgeous show.
iPhone photos can't do justice to the subtle, swiped surfaces and layers of graphite and oil.

Josette Urso at Markel: a buoyant snow painting with odd, checkered lozenge shape.

Preview of Jennifer Wynne Reeves at BravinLee Programs, a quirky, intimate and beautiful show.

Cora Cohen: ruddy painting, with gold and copper notes.

Jennifer Wynne Reeves: relishing material.

Fearless navigator of all things visceral.

And again.

She's been working on these paper pieces for a while.

Raggedy Ann's Foot will need to migrate to a new server. Until then patience is appreciated.

Warm and Cool in Chelsea and Midtown

 Deep Cuts at Anna Kustera

Liz Markus at Deep Cuts, curated by David Humphrey and Wendy White at Anna Kustera on 21st St.
Read more about it, and see the full show, at the link above. Plus, good curator photos at KCLOG (link to right on this page).
I love this image in tandem with Morris Louis and the Kasmin show in the previous post.

Peter Saul at Mary Boone on 57th.
I have loved his work since his 2010 survey at Haunch of Venison, which featured crazy, ambitious history paintings.

Nikki Maloof at Deep Cuts

More Saul...can you imagine.

What makes these images so pungent are dainty, methodically applied marks and internal scale at a perfect pitch.

Down the hall at McKee, a Guston drawing and painting.

Harvey Quaytman at McKee.

Blogger no longer loads images in order. So here is Saul--a particularly beautiful one.

The detail of Quaytman that wants to accompany the image of his painting.

From Color Field to Figure: a Friday in Chelsea

Kenneth Noland at an amazing group show on 10th Avenue at Kasmin.

Helen Frankenthaler. Working her stain technique with new-at-the-time acrylic.

Frank Stella. Sumptious, subtle color passages.

Frankenthaler at Kasmin.

Julies Olitski: "paint suspended in air," his vision realized by airbrush.

Morris Louis. The late pour paintings--made in a small apartment. Almost like Chinese painting.

Morris Louis again--at Kasmin.

Detail, Louis, left side.

Translucent detail, upper Louis, right side.

Larry Poons at Lauretta Howard/Danese. Look at those pours upper left! Dynamic marks balance throughout.

What an amazing group of paintings! Poons, following his own path.

A fractured mark reminiscent of Cecily Brown, but pastoral landscape as well.

One feels weather, temperature, density--yet there is no overt image.

Poons works on top of pours, to ravishing effect.

Transition: Shinique Smith at James Cohan: light brushy paintings, almost like drawings, with hanging laundry sculptures.

Charlie Roberts at Kravets Wheby.

Crazy moves but they fall together in a way that feels real.

Lower left corner a ravishing compilation of marks and form.

Peter Williams at Foxy Production. This, a limpid, gorgeous painting--the surface is lovely.

More Williams, opaque and transparent mixing with inventive, almost Imagist shapes.

A new delicacy of touch in Williams.

Taking the biomorphic shapes up front into small, private ruminations in the back room of Foxy Production.

Color miracle--180 from Color Field, yet a spareness and restraint reminiscent of that time.
It was a beautiful day. More images to come.

More Pour

Angelina Gualdoni, Opening the Gates, 2011, 47 x 52 inches

Monday, Pour opened at the FAU Schmidt Galleries in Boca Raton, FL.
http://www.fau.edu/galleries/pour.php
 
Today Sharon Butler published Stephen Maine's essay for the exhibition catalog (Tyler Emerson-Dorsch wrote the other) on her blog Two Coats of Paint.
http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2013/02/catalogue-essay-cover-earth-by-stephen.html

Raphael Rubenstein published a review of Roland Flexner's recent exhibition at Chris D'Amelio for the Brooklyn Rail.
 http://www.brooklynrail.org/2013/02/artseen/roland-flexner-2

Pour features the works of Carrie Moyer, Kris Chatterson, Ingrid Calame, David Reed, Jackie Saccoccio, Roland Flexner, Carrie Yamaoka, Angelina Gualdoni and Carolanna Parlato. Carol Prusa and I co-curated the show as a result of a discussion about painting.

Pour

Pour opens in Boca Raton, FL, February 5 - March 23, 2013.

Pour comes to New York in April 2013, opening at Lesley Heller Workspace and Asya Geisberg Gallery April 24 and 25 through May 24, 2013 respectively.

A catalog with essays by Stephen Maine and Tyler Emerson-Dorsch is available.

Pour, Seven Seas

Happy 2013!

2012 brought several major projects to fruition, including Seven Seas (just closed) and opening soon, Pour, an exhibition featuring nine artists who pour paint.

Pour features the work of Roland Flexner, Carolanna Parlato, David Reed, Ingrid Calame, Jackie Saccoccio, Kris Chatterson, Angelina Gualdoni, Carrie Yamaoka and Carrie Moyer.

Click the link to Florida Atlantic University's Schmidt Galleries, where the show opens February 4 - March 18 before traveling to Lesley Heller Workspace on the Lower East Side and Asya Geisberg Gallery in Chelsea April 24-25, 2013. Scott Draft made a trailer for the exhibition. A catalog accompanies the exhibition with essays by Stephen Maine and Tyler Emerson-Dorsch and a statement by each artist about the role pouring plays in their work. As I write, the work is en route to FAU.  I look forward to next week's installation.

 

Pour: FAU Gallery Link
Pour: Trailer

Postscript: the solo exhibition Seven Seas comprised a visual foray into adolescent memories of Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, 7561 Sunset Blvd (extant 1972-1974). Rodney's apprenticeship at A&M Records acquainted him with the young David Bowie, who advised Rodney  to open a club in LA featuring the glam rock sweeping the British music scene. High British tax rates and LA's sunny climes beckoned rock stars the world over. The paintings in this show, fueled by spray-painted drywall, mirrored dance floors, the Runaways and later, X, are inspired by Rodney, who continues to dj at KROQ, and the club that opened my world to alternative culture forever.

Seven Seas Video