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May 23, 2012, 8:30am

Gallerist at Home: Deborah Gribbon

Former Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, and recent Interim Director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Deborah Gribbon is by no means a gallerist or collector in the typical sense of the words.  But she is most definitely a quick-witted, intelligent, and gifted scholar in the art world, both in and outside of Los Angeles.

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May 22, 2012, 11:00am

WESTERN PROJECT’s Brian Porray

The wide open space of Culver City’s WESTERN PROJECT is the perfect white-walled arena for Brian Porray’s (NAP #84 and #87) looming, neon, psychedelic architectural landscapes. - Ellen Caldwell, Los Angeles Contributor

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May 19, 2012, 10:38am

Weekly Recap (Week of May 14)

Another weekly recap, for those that simply couldn't follow along the past few days on our blog..."after the jump," as they say.

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May 18, 2012, 8:30am

Unlocking The Vault: Bridget Riley, Wadsworth Antheneum

Museums have gone crazy for traveling group blockbusters but the works in their collections can still inspire. In the coming months, our Boston Contributor, John Pyper, will explore some of the works in permanent collections in a column called: Unlocking The Vault

Bridget Riley, Shuttle II, 1964
Wadsworth Atheneum

May 17, 2012, 2:39pm

Steve Locke // You Don't Deserve Me at Samson

One of the great things about being in Boston's South End is that we have tons of great art all around us. You may think that we have enough art to look at, given the competitions we manage, but it's always nice to see original works right in front of our eyes, rather than in digital and printed reproductions. Especially when the local installation belongs to one of New American Paintings past featured artists.

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May 17, 2012, 8:30am

New American Paintings Pacific Coast Deadline

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 Monica Ramirez-Montagut, Senior Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art, as our 2012 juror. We'll be posting more about Ms. Ramirez-Montagut soon, so stay tuned.

Listed under: Competitions

May 16, 2012, 8:15am

Flat Time Blue: Buddy Bunting at Prole Drift

The centerpiece of Buddy Bunting’s Flat Time Blue at Prole Drift (on view through May 27th) is a panoramic watercolor and flashe painting that stretches twelve feet across the wall. The painting depicts a prison washed out and warmed up with scalding bright yellow sun, its structural starkness rendered sheer and almost weightless. It’s the tenth in a series Bunting has been developing since 2004.

Listed under: Interview, Seattle

May 15, 2012, 8:20am

Sam Gordon at Feature Inc

Sam Gordon’s abstraction poses a photographer’s take on his show title, Trompe L’Oeil (On view at Feature Inc. through May 26th). A painter, photographer, and videographer, Gordon collects and weaves bits of the outside world, in his paintings of dust on mirrors and acrylic and bleach patterns on ratty quilts. Rather than the scrupulously reductive process of someone like Tony Matelli, though, Gordon’s spontaneity and raw materials feel like the naked cruise you get from a Wendy White or Terry Winters, or the anything-goes formalism of early experimental film.

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May 14, 2012, 8:30am

Jen Erickson's Topographies Of Lost Memory

The tenuously-connected tissue of small marks on Jen Erickson's paintings at PUNCH Gallery (On view through June 3) fan out like smoke curls, clustered blooms of algae or exploding supernova. Some diptych panels, hung side-by-side, have mirrored designs, like bifurcated stains on a Rorschach blot or diagrams depicting binary division and replication of cells. The unfurling sprawl is comprised of thousands of graphite zeroes drawn over oil paint on panels. In this blend of the organic and mathematical, Erickson's work melancholically dwells on the inability to retain memory.

Listed under: Interview, Seattle

May 12, 2012, 12:05am

Weekly Recap (week of May 7)

Ok, another week bites the dust. I admit I'm getting really worried that I'm running out of ways to introduce the Weekly Recaps. I mean, at some point, it's going to get redundant, if it hasn't already. Regardless of the lackluster introductions, the content of our blog is always changing, which means these recaps will ultimately never get old. Right?

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