The horrors of 9/11 are not the explicit subject of Susanna Coffey’s paintings at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, though scenes of a city under siege do serve as the backdrop for her continuing exploration of self-portraiture. The events of that day have been transformed in her art into something else-but what that something else Read More
Conduits for Reverie:
Puzzling, Risky Paintings
The horrors of 9/11 are not the explicit subject of Susanna Coffey’s paintings at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, though scenes of a city under siege do serve as the backdrop for her continuing exploration of self-portraiture. The events of that day have been transformed in her art Read More
How could anyone not love Hans Hofmann (1880-1966)? Given the pluralist fog we’re currently muddling through, perhaps the question should be rephrased: How could anyone who loves the art of painting not love Hofmann? The retrospective of his works on paper, now on display at Ameringer/Howard, isn’t much more than a patchwork introduction to the Read More
