Blog Profile / Two Coats of Paint
| URL : | http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Arts / Painting | |
| Posts on Regator: | 479 | |
| Posts / Week: | 4.1 | |
| Archived Since: | February 16, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Superstorm Sandy, Wade Guyton at the Whitney
What a week. Two Coats lost power for five days after Superstorm Sandy's spectacular and devastating landfall last week. The water rose to the backdoor of our temporary waterfront HQ in Stonington, Connecticut, and then, miraculously, began to recede. Show More Summary
Weatherbeaten
Winslow Homer, On the Lee Shore, 1900. Created in his studio at Prouts Neck, Maine, where he lived and worked from 1882 until he died in 1910. Recently renovated by the Portland Museum of Art, Homer's studio has been open to the public since September. Show More Summary
Owning motherhood
Last week I moderated a discussion at the School of Visual Arts called "Taking Custody: The Double Life of the Artist Mother," which was organized by Cathleen Cueto, an artist who is expecting her first child this year. I thought readers might like to join the conversation, so here are the intro and questions we prepared for the discussion. Show More Summary
Peter Scott's two-part disappearance and James Siena's Sometimes
Peter Scott's moving exhibit "Pardon Our Disappearance Part Two" is on view at Sometimes (works of art), painter James Siena's small gallery on a sixth floor space in Chinatown, through the end of the month. Questioning the idealized...Show More Summary
How to become an art collector
We all love Barry Hoggard and James Wagner, two friendly, culture-loving guys who not only publish ArtCat, The Opinionated Art Guide to New York, but have also amassed a large, very personal and diverse art collection over more than twenty years. Show More Summary
Katie Pretti: Ghost in transit
Abstract painter Katie Pretti's latest exhibition at Neubacher Shor Contemporary is a beautifully expressive meditation on the feeling of being in transit. Her large canvases capture the confusion and displacement Pretti feels as she travels endlessly from place to place, with no opportunity to feel completely at home. Show More Summary
Flayed, torn, and punctured at MOCA
After World War II, abstract artists, in the throes of an existential crisis unleashed by the atom bomb, began an assault of the picture plane, puncturing, stabbing, tearing, gouging, burning, and shredding their canvases. At MOCA,"Destroy...Show More Summary
Extending and reducing: Matthew Langley at Blank Space
"Atlas," the first NYC solo show of Matthew Langley's handsome abstractions is on display at Blank Space in Chelsea through November 10. Since my undergrad days I've had a weakness for painterly, grid-based abstraction by artists like Harvey Quaytman and Sean Scully, so naturally I'm a Langley fan. Show More Summary
A Well-Lit Billboard is Not Public Art: Q&A with Adam Niklewicz
1. JOE BUN KEO: Adam,
I've met you on a few occasions, most recently at David Borawski's pop-up art
space ATOM space in Downtown Hartford,
where we were in a show, NOW ON together.
With the Capital City Canvas Project and more
specifically The Charter Oak water mural, you are working with a 2-D surface, a
brick facade of a building. Show More Summary
Alex Paik: A solo show in Philly and a new gallery in Bushwick
Alex Paik, one of the founders of the Philadelphia art space Tiger Strikes Asteroid, is having his first solo show at Gallery Joe this month. Using cut and folded paper to make small-scale constructions painted with
gouache and colored pencil. Show More Summary
The Triton Collection suffers an art heist in Rotterdam
Dutch police say seven paintings stolen from the
Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam include one by Pablo Picasso, one by Henri
Matisse, and two by Claude Monet, Lucian Freud, Paul Gauguin, and Meyer de Haan. The heist, one of the largest in...Show More Summary
Thomas Micchelli: Blue on pink
Thomas Micchelli, Swimmers, sleepers and rain, 2012.
At tiny Centotto, Thomas Micchelli presents "Portfolio x Appunti," a series of figurative work based on poems written by friends Lacy Schutz and Claudia La Rocco. In Swimmers, sleepers...Show More Summary
Beverly Fishman's nonfunctional fragility
On the floor of one of the contemporary galleries at the Detroit Institute of Arts sits Beverly Fishman'sPill Spill,
an installation comprising eighty-six hand-blown glass pill shaped
objects strewn about a raised platform. Crafted in...Show More Summary
Valentine hearts painting
I went out to Ridgewood today and caught the last day of "4 Who
Paint," a group show at Valentine that features work by Lauren Collings,
Barbara Friedman, Gili Levi, and Shelly Marlow. Although I didn't discern of a clear curatorial premise, the paintings look good,
bouncing ideas off each other and reveling in their sheer
painterliness. Show More Summary
EMAIL: Rebecca Morris writes regarding Raoul De Keyser
Hey Sharon,
I just saw your piece on Raoul. Such an important artist for so many
people, including myself. Thanks for posting. We show at the same
gallery in Berlin, Galerie Barbara Weiss. It was one of the original
connections I made with Barbara when we first met--our mutual admiration
of Raoul's work!
I wanted to send this link on to you. Show More Summary
The Double Life of the Artist Mother
Dear Readers,
Please join us for a lively (and I hope brutally honest)
conversation this Tuesday at the School of Visual Arts Theater.
Mary Cassatt, Tea, 1880, oil on canvas, 25½ × 36¼ inches. Mary Cassatt, although famous for her depictins of mothers with their children, never married or had an kids
of her own. Show More Summary
Influential painter Raoul de Keyser is dead at 83
According to ArtForum, influential Belgian artist Raoul De Keyser (b. 1930) has died.
The Deinze-based painter had a reputation for a rigorous attention to painting techinique and as well as self-imposed hermitage, earning him the moniker...Show More Summary
Manifsto: Yellowism
"I would like to show such a wonderful piece in the context of Yellowism," the Tate Rothko tagger told a reporter from the BBC yesterday. For all the manifesto writers out there (UConn second-year MFA students, I'm talking to you) here's...Show More Summary
A few highlights from the 2012 DUMBO Arts Festival
So many artists and not enough time, IPhone battery life or caffeine to do this festival justice, but here are a few highlights from the DUMBO Arts Festival last week. The presentations ranged from massive group studio shows featuring...Show More Summary
Conversation with Louise Fishman
A few weeks ago, I sat down with Louise Fishman in her cozy but austere 23rd Street apartment to discuss her two current exhibitions: "Five Decades," a 50-year retrospective at Tilton Gallery (September 5 – October 13), and "Louise Fishman," at Cheim & Read (September 13 – October 27). Show More Summary