Looking at the recent sculptures of Philip Pavia-an array of terra-cotta heads on display at the OK Harris Gallery-I was reminded of recent and current exhibitions devoted to Georg Baselitz’s immense wood carvings and the paintings and drawings of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Mr. Pavia doesn’t necessarily benefit from the comparison; the high-profile efforts of Mr. Baselitz Read More
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
The sculpture of Michael Steiner, currently the subject of
an exhibition at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, is so resolute in its rigor that
one is likely to overlook how funny it is. Not laugh-out-loud funny, but dry
and droll, deeply comical. While loyal to the tradition of Constructivism, as
well as deferential to the blunt certainties of Read More
