By Mario Naves 11/25/02 12:00am

An Artist’s Formidable Gaze, Withering and a Touch Arrogant

I wasn’t eager to visit the exhibition of paintings by Andrew Spence currently on display at the Edward Thorp Gallery: I doubted he had anything fresh to show me. Mr. Spence’s emblematic semi-abstractions-distillations of observed phenomena keyed to a hard, bright palette and characterized by densely worked surfaces-have been a reliable fixture on the art Read More

By Mario Naves 4/30/01 12:00am

The Indelible Albert York, And His Genteel Cult Following

The small, boxy and wholly idiosyncratic paintings of Albert York, currently the subject of a 30-year overview at Davis & Langdale Company Inc., have garnered the artist a coterie of admirers so unobtrusive in their fervor as to constitute the most genteel of cults. If “cult” seems too strong (or weird) a word, one might Read More