By Mario Naves 3/12/07 12:00am

Bill Jensen, Quintessentially American Maverick

If Bill Jensen weren’t capable of making such awful paintings, his good ones wouldn’t be worth taking so seriously. His improvisatory method is inherently hit-or-miss. His scraped and scarred canvases often fail to distinguish between the grace note and the heavy hand.

Case in point: the forbiddingly dark canvases in the introductory gallery of Cheim Read More

By Hilton Kramer 12/02/02 12:00am

The Loaded Brush: New Resika Work Is Without Peer

The American painter Paul Resika, born in 1928, studied with Hans Hofmann while still in his teens and had his first solo exhibition in New York at the age of 20. He’s thus been a notable presence in the New York art scene for nearly half a century. I long ago lost track of the Read More