By Mario Naves 12:00am

Tangent to a Tangent, And Comfortably Content

Some 50 years ago, when the history of mid-20th-century American Modernism was being forged, Abstract Expressionism quashed all competitors, though from this distance its grand gestures begin to look smaller, its epochal conceits more flimsy. And what about the New York School’s sidelined rival, Indian Space Painting, with which it shared certain aspirations, in particular Read More

By Hilton Kramer 11/10/97 12:00am

The Peculiar Steve Wheeler Was Indeed the Real Thing

Since his death in 1992 at the age of 80, the American painter Steve Wheeler has been the subject of a modest revival of interest both in his own work and as a member of the group-the so-called Indian Space Painters-with whom he was associated in the late 1940′s. Now, in an exhibition called Steve Read More