August 10, 2018, 4:36pm

A Conversation: Eric Fischl

New American Paintings Contributer, Arthur Peña, speaks with Eric Fischl on the occaision of his survey exhibition, If Art Could Talk, at the Dallas Contemporary. 

 

Rift/Raft, 2016, oil on linen, 98 x 220 inches

 

 

Arthur Peña:    There are so many moves and nuances playing out on the surface of the paintings. The work has a constant restlessness in the how the paint is being pushed around. 

 

Eric Fischl:       I don't know if you have that as well. I'm assuming you do, I think all painters do, which is that I’m always wondering what's enough. What does it take to make it feel alive, make it feel real? How much detail do I need? Do I stick to some strict formula? Do I deviate? Do I whatever? I thought the older I got, the better at the craft I got, the more that question would go away, but it gets worse. 

 

July 31, 2018, 11:51am

NAP Artist on View: Alex Becerra, Brian Calvin, Shara Hughes

New American Paintings alumni, Alex Becerra (Pacific Coast #127 cover artist) Brian Calvin (Midwest #11), and Shara Hughes (South #58) were all featured in Cliche, organized with Bill Powers at Almine Rech Gallery. 

 

Cliche 

June 20 - July 28, 2018

 

For more information please visit:
 

Almine Rech Gallery 
39 East 78th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10075
212 804 8496

Cliches are always already on the canvas, and if the painter is content to transform the cliche, to deform or mutilate it, to manipulate it in every possible way, this reaction is still too intellectual, too abstract: it allows the cliche to rise again from its ashes, it leaves the painter within the milieu of the cliche, or else gives him or her no other consolation than parody. 

- Gilles Deleuze 

 

The more probable the message, the less information it gives. Cliches, for example, are less illuminating than great poems. 

- Norbert Weiner 

 

Brian Calvin
Puff

2018

acrylic on canvas

56 1/8 x 70 1/8 inches

 

photo courtesy of Almine Rech Gallery

 

July 14, 2018, 3:30pm

NAP Artist on View: Anthony Iacono, Allison Schulnik, and Michael Stamm

New American Paintings alumni, Anthony Iacono (MFA issue #129 cover artist)  Allison Schulnik (Pacific Coast #79 and #55), and Michael Stamm (Northeast issue #128) are all featured in Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose, curated by Nikki Maloof and Louis Fratino at Jack Hanley Gallery. 

Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose 
June 28 - August 3, 2018

For more information please visit:

Jack Hanley Gallery
327 Broome Street
New York, NY 10002
646 918 6824

installation view: Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY, June 28 - August 3, 2018
photo courtest of Jack Hanley Gallery

 

July 12, 2018, 10:50am

NAP Artist on View: Laurel Sparks and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung

New American Paintings alumni, Laurel Sparks (Northeast issue #98 and #74) and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung (Midwest #95), are both featured in My Vicious Throbbing Heart: Animating Desire in Abstract Painting, curated by Risa Puleo at Franklin Street Works.  

My Vicious Throbbing Heart: Animating Desire in Abstract Painting
May 26 - September 9, 2018

For more information please visit:

Franklin Street Works
41 Franklin Street
Stamford, CT 06901
203 595 5211

 

Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Untitled
2018

photo courtesy of Franklin Street Works