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July 05, 2012, 8:30am
Karl Haendel at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Karl Haendel’s “Informal Family Blackmail” at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (on view through July 7th) is something of a mashup of experiences. Moving from one constructed space to another, visitors journey from Hanedel’s world of photorealistic graphite drawings on paper, through a large room with a movie projection, and to a backroom about fear, security, and insecurity. – Ellen C. Caldwell, Los Angeles Contributor
July 04, 2012, 8:32am
Pacific Coast Deadline Extended to July 8th, Midnight EST
Happy Fourth of July!!!
We have extended the New American Paintings deadline is for the Pacific Coast region, which includes Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington. If you reside in any of these states, now is your chance to apply to New American Paintings. The Extended Deadline is July 8th, Midnight, EST. We are happy to have Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, Senior Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art, as our 2012 juror. Learn more about the juror here.
It's easy to submit work, you just need 4 images, 1200 pixels at their greatest dimension or less, and a credit card for our late submission fee of $60.
July 04, 2012, 12:15pm
David Ostrowski and Jack Henry at Nudashank
David Ostrowski’s intuitive marks -- mistakes, he calls them -- aggregate on the canvas like layers of paint. “It’s a constant failure,” he says in reference to his painting process, which is deliberately fast and intent on producing gestural imperfections. Indeed, there’s very little hand wringing here, as the artist’s trust in his mark making becomes palpable in the lines that he makes.
July 03, 2012, 8:20am
Re-Imagining Africa: YSL Denver
In Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective, the Denver Art Museum’s extensive exhibit on the fashion designer and his life works, the museum inundates viewers with fashion, fabrics, and fabulous eye candy, often with ceiling-to-floor displays that are so jam-packed with beauty, whimsy, and haute couture, that it is breathtaking and overwhelming. - Read more by Ellen Caldwell, Los Angeles Contributor, after the jump!
July 02, 2012, 8:20am
Clay Schiff and Scott Goodman at Bushwick Open Studios
While at Bushwick Open Studios a few weeks ago, I stopped by a storefront space shared by ten artists, a few of whom I'd known from school. Despite that bias, paintings by Clay Schiff and Scott Goodman stuck with me long after the visit was over. I think that's a good sign. - Whitney Kimball, NYC Contributor
June 29, 2012, 2:30pm
New American Paintings Remembers Ivan Karp
Legendary New York art dealer, Ivan Karp, has passed away at age 86. Ivan has the distinction of being the only gallerist to ever juror an edition of New American Paintings – all other jurors have been curators. He did so in early 1997, and the result was Issue #10, which is the only issue we ever published that was solely dedicated to New York City (the city subsequently became a part of our annual Northeast issue). Ivan is also the only juror that I have sat with through the entire jurying process; it was a long, cigar-smoke filled afternoon in the offices of his SOHO-based gallery, O.K. Harris Works of Art, that I will never forget.
June 29, 2012, 8:15am
40 Galleries You Should Know if You Love Paint
It is a simple truth that in any given month, if you added up all of the available space in commercial galleries around the country, the amount dedicated to painting would dwarf that of all other media. The list that I have compiled consists of 40 United States’ based galleries that have a proclivity for painting. That is not to say that painting is the only medium that these galleries show; indeed, most represent artists producing work in a range of media. All of them, however, have shown a particular interest in the medium over an extended period of time, and all have stables of artists that are at least 50% painters.
June 28, 2012, 8:15am
Michael Berryhill at Kansas Gallery
What comes after stasis? Writing about Michael Berryhill’s work in 2010, Sharon Butler observed a trend of “contingency and ennui” in painting, predicting that “struggle and tenacity” would follow. That bend has arrived in Berryhill’s show at Kansas Gallery (which closed on June 23rd), a series of paintings which, in itself, blossoms.
June 27, 2012, 8:15am
Brooks Cashbaugh: Demotic Emolument (of The People, a reward for Good Work)
Few images capturing the essence of American identity can stand the test of time and override the trappings of overuse, celebrity, cliché and kitsch.
June 26, 2012, 8:24am
Pacific Coast Deadline Approaching
Our next New American Paintings deadline is for the Pacific Coast region, which includes Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington. If you reside in any of these states, now is your chance to apply to New American Paintings. The Deadline is June 30, Midnight, EST. We are happy to have Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, Senior Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art, as our 2012 juror. Learn more about the juror here.
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