One sign that Arthur Dove: Watercolors, on display at Alexandre Gallery, is a museum-quality exhibition is the fact that the curators have included artifacts: In a pair of vitrines containing objects from the artist’s studio are tubes of paint, jars filled with pigment, brushes, oil-stained pages from an old treatise on color and even Crayola Read More
One sign that Arthur Dove: Watercolors, on display at Alexandre Gallery, is a museum-quality exhibition is the fact that the curators have included artifacts: In a pair of vitrines containing objects from the artist’s studio are tubes of paint, jars filled with pigment, brushes, oil-stained pages from an old treatise on color and even Crayola Read More
A first encounter with the paintings of Graham Nickson is likely to be a daunting experience. Almost everything about the paintings-the physical scale, the intensity of color, the multiplicity of vividly depicted figures with muscular, highly charged physiques; above all, the shower-of-gold quality of the light that seems to derive from a solar system very Read More
A couple of years ago, in the summer of 2001, the Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland, Me., mounted an exhibition of new paintings by Lois Dodd that caused quite a sensation. The show was called Women at Work , and it consisted entirely of paintings of naked women doing routine country chores in the open air-hanging Read More
The Rich Rewards of Engagement
With Dense, Demanding Work
In its own quietly determined way, the New York Studio School has become one of the city’s most significant venues for contemporary art. When I say “contemporary art,” I don’t mean the kind of soulless folderol in the
go-go galleries of West 24th Street.
In its own quietly determined way, the New York Studio School has become one of the city’s most significant venues for contemporary art. When I say “contemporary art,” I don’t mean the kind of soulless folderol in the go-go galleries of West 24th Street. I mean art that thrives on its own autonomous merits, that Read More
The passing of a highly accomplished painter would be felt as a profound loss at any time-but in a period like ours, when the future of painting itself is so often seen to be in doubt, such a loss is bound to be especially painful. This is one reason why so many artists, art students Read More
Owing to a temporary absence from New York, I was late in getting to see the Académie Matisse exhibition that David Cohen has organized at the New York Studio School in Greenwich Village, so I must report straightaway that this delightful and highly instructive show is scheduled to close on Nov. 17. For anyone with Read More
