Judith Simonian's show of recent paintings at Ed Thorp Gallery give the impression of an artist who wants to have it all; abstraction and representation, painterly heat and cool remove, spiritual transcendence and messy materiality.
Jackie Saccoccio was born in Providence, RI, and received her MFA from The Art Institute of Chicago in 1988. She is currently living and working at the American Academy in Rome, along with her husband and current Fellow Carl D'Alvia.
In my experience, the polarization of painting in today's art world encourages painters to narrow their expressive range to one pre-fabricated set of boundaries or the other. Artists like Lauren Gidwitz present a more progressive perspective that includes all of painting on a single spectrum.
"Second Life," is the title of Lisa Adams' show of new work at CB1 Gallery. The ambiguity between the show's title and the imagery is no coincidence. Second Life is actually the name of an online virtual world, where users, aka avatars, interact with each other in different social settings.
As a painter, I am most impressed with Richard Butler's near minimalist approach to paint application. He achieves smoke, electric light, flesh and focus with ease. Butler's mood is more about emotional voids or emptiness, even though it is largely unintended.
The iconoclastic Jackson has been sticking his thumb in the eye of art -- particularly the art of painting -- for four decades and more. His retrospective, Ain't Painting a Pain, documents a long love affair with paint, and a dogged (excuse the pun) refusal to use it in the conventional ways.
I don't paint people or architecture. I paint paintings. The buildings, rooms are in the paintings because they contain people.
Anyone can tell you who's already made it, but HuffPost Arts & Culture's On Our Radar series is here to tell you who's about to blow up -- and, in som...
I like the term intervention when referring to my painting process. I just try to react off of things...marks on the painted surface, purposely warping a stretcher bar, cutting something then putting it back together. I want to create a scenario in which I have to fix something.
Noah Davis' current exhibition at Roberts & Tilton in Los Angeles, called "The Missing Link," features murky clues in piercing colors, filling in gaps...
The beauty of these paintings is that they never fall into finger pointing or polemical politics, which tend to either preach to the converted, fall on deaf ears or let the complacent, liberal, art-world viewer off the hook.
Cora Cohen's paintings, now on view at Guided By Invoices, invite the viewer to pause, to slow down and to step out of the demands of our time-bound reality. She does this with work that is the visual equivalent of a large-scale whisper or in musical terms, they are analogous to ambient music.
At Lora Schlesinger Gallery in Santa Monica painter/teacher/critic Lawrence Gipe is currently exhibiting thirty small paintings that simultaneously r...
A critic writing about the Mona Lisa should be able somehow to make you feel the way you feel when you are looking at the Mona Lisa. But describing an entire individual piece of art that is so ephemeral as to not be there at all is a different task.
We rarely get to see a raw depiction of childhood, given most contemporary portraits of children involve mall photo booths or dressing babies up as ov...
Artist Brenda Goodman paints to open up difficult emotions and see what can be done with them. The vulnerability of her approach is her strength as an artist, and what makes her different.
Katharina Wulff's paintings are as mysterious in their subject matter as they are in their varied influences. Her visual stories display mysterious ch...
Imagine Claude Monet's pastel Poplars... if Monet was working 100 years later and spent a lot of time on the internet... and you get somewhere close t...
Charline Von Heyl's works are more art events than art objects. The paintings look abstract but are not really abstractions of anything. But be carefu...
Berlin artist Marcel Eichner creates haunting picture puzzles where distinctions between the banal and the surreal are chewed up and spit back out. Li...
Race, gender and sexuality are definitely some of today's hottest topics. While many approach it the subjects on tip-toe, skirting around offensivenes...
It's 2012, and the apocalypse is on everyone's mind. But Daniel Richter's apocalyptic visions, like old-Western cinemascapes mixed with psychedelic 60...
Via MutualArt: Walking up to the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, you can't help but notice the current main attraction: the building's impressive ...
Looking at an Allison Schulnik painting gives the feeling of being a child at bedtime, when the lights go out, and the shadows begin to cast chilling ...
