Steven Zevitas

May is traditionally the last month of the art world "season." As summer looms, rhythms change and many galleries choose to mount group exhibitions instead of solo shows. It makes sense, after all. Why try to promote an individual's work when your clients are scattered to various vacation spots around...

There are dozens of notable painting exhibitions on view in the United States this month. In an art world that is overly obsessed with the next hot thing, the life of a mid-career artist can be problematic. For many artists, the gulf between emerging and established is extraordinarily difficult to...

There are dozens of painting exhibitions on view in March, and Los Angeles looks particularly strong. In late March, LA Louver will open an exhibition of work the by the late abstract painter Frederick Hammersley. Based in New Mexico for the latter part of this life, Hammersley's paintings are potent...

One of the best parts of my job is getting to see the careers of artists who we have worked with take off. Artists such as James Siena, Amy Cutler and Matthew Day Jackson were all featured in New American Paintings long before they reached the international spotlight. This month...

2011 was a strong year for the ever-resilient medium of painting as artists continued to push the idea of just what a painting can be in terms of materials, scale and subject. I expect that 2012 will be no different. Over the past twelve months I visited hundreds of gallery...

As this month's Must See list demonstrates, contemporary painters continue to find extraordinary ways to move the medium forward. Once again, my survey of more than 300 commercial galleries throughout the United States confirms that painting still dominates the programming at most galleries (more than 70% of the reviewed galleries...

The fall art season is in full swing, and there is an overwhelming amount of painting on display at galleries throughout the United States. I expanded my usual Must See list from ten to twelve exhibitions, but I could have easily selected more. As always, I primarily focused on

The summer months are traditionally a slow period for commercial galleries, as collectors abandon large cities and migrate to vacation destinations around the country. With this in mind, galleries are bit more willing to experiment with their programming. And so, July and August have become a popular time to mount...

Once again, galleries throughout the country are heavily favoring the medium of painting this month. While there was an overwhelming amount of abstraction on view in April, May seems to be the month of representational painting.

The figure fares particularly well, as artists continue to address the historically-laden subject...

Are artists born or made? While raw creativity seems to be a function of genetics, today's most acclaimed contemporary artists have something in common other than the luck of the draw: many hold a Masters of Fine Arts degree.

Dana...

Working with Graham Kolbeins of Future Shipwreck, New American Paintings recently produced a video that captures Los Angeles-based artist, Annie Lapin, at work in her studio. Her unique studio practice involves traditional and non-traditional applications of paint, the use of collage and found images,...

It is another extraordinary month for painting in the United States. After reviewing current and upcoming exhibitions at commercial galleries throughout the country, I was impressed with the diversity of aesthetic viewpoints on display.

If any trend in painting is detectable right now it is the resurgence of abstraction....

After surveying March exhibitions at more than 300 galleries throughout the United States, two things became clear: 1) Painting still holds a central place in the exhibition programming of most galleries and 2) it is a medium that never seems to lose its vitality. While some of the great contemporary...