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Must-See Painting Shows

Steven Zevitas | Posted 04.12.2013 | Arts
Steven Zevitas

April is another strong month for painting around the US. At 20 shows, this is the largest list that I have published to date, and it could have easil...

Must-See March Paintings

Steven Zevitas | Posted 05.08.2013 | Arts
Steven Zevitas

More than four dozen New American Paintings' alumni are on view throughout the country this month. Two artists originally featured in MFA Annual issue...

Must-See Painting Shows

Steven Zevitas | Posted 04.13.2013 | Arts
Steven Zevitas

I have written a lot about the pervasiveness of abstraction over the past few years. This month, things feel a bit different, as a remarkable number o...

Must-See Painting Shows

Steven Zevitas | Posted 01.14.2013 | Arts
Steven Zevitas

More than forty New American Paintings' alumni are on view this month throughout the country. They range from mid-career painter, Trenton Doyle Hancoc...

14 Must-See Painting Shows: October 2012

Steven Zevitas | Posted 12.16.2012 | Arts
Steven Zevitas

October 2012 has proven to be an extraordinary month for the medium of paint. There are dozens of strong exhibitions on view throughout the country, w...

Twelve Must-See Painting Shows: September 2012

Steven Zevitas | Posted 11.10.2012 | Arts
Steven Zevitas

It is September and the art world has come back to life. Commercial galleries around the country are busy putting final touches on soon to open exhibi...

40 Galleries You Should Know If You Love Paint

Steven Zevitas | Posted 10.10.2012 | Arts
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Steven Zevitas

It is a simple truth that in any given month, if you added up all of the available space in commercial galleries around the country, the amount dedica...

Ten Must See Painting Shows: Summer 2012

Steven Zevitas | Posted 09.09.2012 | Arts
Steven Zevitas

The heat has been turned way up on the East Coast, which is all the more reason to duck into a few galleries as you trudge through the city. As is typ...

10 Must See Painting Shows: May 2012

Steven Zevitas | Posted 07.07.2012 | Arts
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 in...

12 Must See Painting Shows: March 2012

Steven Zevitas | Posted 05.03.2012 | Arts
Steven Zevitas

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...

10 Must See Painting Shows in the U.S.: February 2012

Steven Zevitas | Posted 03.31.2012 | Arts
Steven Zevitas

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...

12 Painter To Watch In 2012

Steven Zevitas | Posted 02.26.2012 | Arts
Steven Zevitas

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.

10 Must See Painting Shows in the U.S.: November

Steven Zevitas | Posted 12.31.2011 | Arts
Steven Zevitas

As this month's Must See list demonstrates, contemporary painters continue to find extraordinary ways to move the medium forward. Once again, my surve...

PHOTOS: Childhood Nightmares In Eerie New Exhibition

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.11.2012 | Arts

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 ...

10 Must-See Painting Shows

Steven Zevitas | Posted 09.16.2011 | Arts
Steven Zevitas

The summer months are traditionally a slow period for commercial galleries, as collectors abandon large cities and migrate to vacation destinations ar...

10 Must-See Painting Exhibitions

Steven Zevitas | Posted 07.17.2011 | Arts
Steven Zevitas

2011-05-18-pain.pngWhile there was an overwhelming amount of abstraction on view in April, May seems to be the month of representational painting.

Bright Young Things: Meet Tomorrow's Art Stars

Steven Zevitas | Posted 06.17.2011 | Arts
Steven Zevitas

Are artists born or made? While raw creativity seems to be a function of genetics, today's most acclaimed contemporary artists have something in commo...

10 Must-See Painting Exhibitions

Steven Zevitas | Posted 06.05.2011 | Arts
Steven Zevitas

It is another extraordinary month for painting in the United States. After reviewing current and upcoming exhibitions at commercial galleries througho...

Anti-Academic Painter Eddie Martinez Has Big Brushes, Big Ideas

Evan J. Garza | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Evan J. Garza

If there's anything that history has proven again and again over centuries of art-making it is that art is perpetually informed by the work that prece...