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July 24, 2013, 9:08am
Back To The Digital Future: NAP Site Redesign
There have been a number of big days for New American Paintings over the past twenty years, but this may very well be the biggest. Today, we are pleased to present our new web site, which has been in top-secret development for a number of months. This site is both a capsule of the publication’s entire history, and, more importantly, the beachhead for our increasingly digital future.
July 23, 2013, 8:30am
Back To The Digital Future: NAP Site Redesign
There have been a number of big days for New American Paintings over the past twenty years, but this may very well be the biggest. Today, we are pleased to present our new web site, which has been in top-secret development for a number of months. This site is both a capsule of the publication’s entire history, and, more importantly, the beachhead for our increasingly digital future.
July 22, 2013, 9:00am
Abstract Planking: Jason Middlebrook at Lora Reynolds Gallery
Painting on wood panels is old-school, the most popular way of supporting media until canvas took over in the 16th century. Jason Middlebrook isn't trying to reinvent the wheel by painting directly onto internally cut trunks from the local mill. But in relocating from Williamsburg to Columbia County in upstate New York seven years ago, the artist began infusing his nature-minded oeuvre with the natural landscape. The Line That Divides Us, Middlebrook's debut solo exhibition at Lora Reynolds Gallery in Austin, is a distillation of his most recent work: subtle compositions on their own sublime hardwood slabs. — Brian Fee, Austin contributor
July 16, 2013, 8:30am
Self Conscious: Pat Snow & Matthew John Winters at grayDUCK Gallery
It seems almost fated that Texas transplants Pat Snow and Matthew John Winters would exhibit together. The mellifluous title to their grayDUCK Gallery duet Wintersnow Snowinters echoes the innate, mantra-like concentration evident in their respective works, combining images and memories to sublime conclusions. — Brian Fee, Austin contributor
July 10, 2013, 8:30am
Museum Admission: José Lerma at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Engaging all the melodrama and frivolity of commemorative portraiture, José Lerma’s most recent exhibition, currently on view at the MCA Chicago, challenges the long-since relevant historical relationship between social status and painting. Fitting the museum with a number of works ranging from painting, sculpture, and installation, Lerma combines the pomp and splendor of honorary gestures with the sharp and undercutting wit of his overly embellished, and stylized method.
July 05, 2013, 8:30am
Ellsworth Kelly at Matthew Marks Gallery
Ellsworth Kelly has recalled of his early development as an artist: “I didn’t want to paint people. I wanted to paint something I had never seen before. I didn’t want to make what I was looking at. I wanted the fragments.” In Ellsworth Kelly at Ninety—a title that refers to the birthday the artist celebrated a few weeks after the show’s opening—fourteen paintings and two sculptures in Kelly’s signature fragmentary style are on view. Impressively, all of the large works were made in the past two years, evidence that the artist’s age has not affected the prolific production of his work.
July 03, 2013, 8:30am
Pacific Coast Competition Deadline Extended!
Pacific Coast artists (residing in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington), The Deadline has been extended to July 7th, Midnight, EST.* We are happy to have Janet Bishop, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as our 2013 juror. Apply now!
*Late Entry Fee Applies.
For more information on Ms. Bishop, click "read more" below.
July 02, 2013, 8:30am
Ella Hatchet: Alex Chitty and Alice Tippit at Roots & Culture
At once phonetic and ambiguous, the work in Ella Hatchet reflects the title – a collection of paintings, photographs, and sculptures by Alex Chitty and Alice Tippit that strike a mood, rather than a specific target. In fact, the symbol a target would be the antithesis of what this exhibition, currently on view at Roots & Culture, so beautifully achieves.
July 01, 2013, 8:30am
Overlapping Disjuncture: Christine Frerichs at gallery km
Christine Frerichs’ current solo show “The Conversation” at gallery km is dynamic, new, and not to be missed.
The main gallery space is filled with ten large 44 x 34 paintings that are three-dimensional, visually enticing, and inviting. At first glance, they do not appear to have a unified theme, as they vary fairly drastically in color and abstract subject. Ellen C. Caldwell, Los Angeles Contributor
June 28, 2013, 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 Janet Bishop, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as our 2013 juror. We’ll be posting more about Ms. Bishop soon, so stay tuned.
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