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March 12, 2012, 10:24am

Lee Gainer at VOLTA NY

Well we are back from New York and we are beat! If you call the office today, go easy on Alexa, it was a late night traveling. We still have tons of our own photographs to go through from the fair, which should be posted tomorrow. In the meantime, we have a final round of images submitted by our guest photo blogger, Lee Gainer. Last time she checked in, Gainer had sent images from Armory and Scope. Now she shares her favorite pieces from the VOLTA fair (one of our favorites!). See her pictures after the jump, and be sure to come back tomorrow for our staff favorites from Armory, Volta, and Independent.

Listed under: Art Fairs
Tagged as: Lee Gainer, volta, VOLTA NY

March 11, 2012, 8:30am

Fountain, Volta, Independent

Our guest blogger Joshua Field was busy this weekend. In addition to the Armory and Scope (click for previous post), he made it to Fountain, Volta, and the Independent. After the jump, check out some works he was admiring at the remaining three fairs. Be sure to keep checking in over the next few days to see more from our other guest blogger, Lee Gainer, and our own New American Paintings staff.

Listed under: Art Fairs

March 10, 2012, 1:30pm

Armory and Scope: Joshua Field Checks In

We heard earlier from Lee Grainer at the Armory and Scope. Now it's Joshua Field's turn to share what caught his eye while at the fairs. Joshua is our second guest photo blogger helping us cover the fairs in New York City. We are excited to have another painter share their perspective and favorite pieces while observing the large gathering of contemporary galleries and artists in Big Apple. When I asked Joshua to share his thoughts thus far, he offered the following:

Listed under: Art Fairs

March 10, 2012, 8:30am

Lee Gainer From The Armory and Scope Art Fairs

Our guest photo bloggers are on the ground and covering fairs in NYC this weekend. We first heard from Lee Gainer, a painter from Arlington, VA, who sent some notable pieces from the Armory Show and Scope Art Fair. Gainer noted that, "Scope was lean this year.

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March 07, 2012, 8:15am

Masquerading Fiction: Dawn Black at Curator's Office

Dawn Black’s second solo show at Curators Office in Washington, D.C. doesn’t veer too far from her first go in 2009.

Listed under: Review

March 05, 2012, 11:41am

MUST SEE PAINTINGS SHOWS: MARCH

There are dozens of strong painting exhibitions on view in March. In the interest of full disclosure, I not only publish New American Paintings, but I have a gallery in Boston as well. I am very fortunate to have an show of new paintings by Peter Opheim this month. Opheim focused his energies on abstraction for more than two decades, but in 2010 his work took a radical shift. While he begins each work with by creating of a small clay model, his paintings are anything but “still-lifes”; rather, they are extraordinary mediations on the medium of paint and the activity of painting.

Listed under: Must-Sees

March 03, 2012, 8:15am

Weekly Blog Recap (Week of February 27)

Another great week on the blog. Missed something? Now's your chance to catch up!

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Listed under: Weekly Recap
Tagged as: recap

March 02, 2012, 8:15am

“Excavating Abstraction”: Zak Prekop at Harris Lieberman

The intense, ostensibly minimalist yet beguilingly layered and process-composed paintings by young Brooklyn-based Zak Prekop unveil themselves like a Jorge Luis Borges plot device. I spent a leisurely while in front of and angled toward his human-scale canvases filling Harris Lieberman Gallery, playing out different scenarios in my head as to just how he created them. Their plain titles give away few secrets, but their respective compositions and surface effects are irresistible to inquisitive eyes. - Brian Fee, Austin Contributor

Listed under: New York, Review

March 01, 2012, 11:01am

Midwest Deadline Extended

The deadline for this year's Midwest Competition has been extended to March 7th (Midnight EST). If you're a painter residing in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, or Wisconsin, this is your last opportunity to submit work to New American Paintings.

The juror for the 2012 competition will be Lisa D. Freiman, Senior Curator and Chair of the Department of Contemporary Art Department, Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Listed under: Competitions
Tagged as: Midwest, nap #101

February 29, 2012, 8:15am

Another place and time: Ian Whitmore at G Fine Art

It wasn’t long ago that Ian Whitmore was selling out multiple shows in Washington, D.C. before his paintings were even hung for opening night. It may have been a sign of the times -- those shows at the now-defunct Fusebox gallery in the mid 00s were smack dab in the middle of the so-called great contemporary art bubble.

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