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Lara Allen on Anselm Kiefer's 'Die Ordnung der Engel'
It once hung in the Chicago Art Institute but now is a blurry electrical field full of crackles and pops behind my eyes.
Elizabeth Johnson on Celia Reisman
Her aloof houses are challenging, seem to have their backs turned to me, the viewer, and transform me into an interloper.
Ellen Harvey on the Disappointed Tourist | Art in Isolation
It was intended as an exploration of nostalgia, to create a conversation across many different types of loss.
Judy Glantzman on Obituaries and Shadows | Art in Isolation
I have been painting portraits from obituaries on poured plaster/acrylic plaques since the pandemic began.
Norm Paris on Max Ernst
This is a portrait of a culture in the late stages of psychic rot.
Mariel Herring on Chuta Kimura
Imagine if de Kooning and Matisse painted a landscape together, and maybe Bonnard was their professor/mentor? That’s ya boi Kimura.
Ruth Marten on Paul Caranicas
He’s condensed a mall into a theatre set, flattening the rich detail into a sort of Greek chorus to serve the dumb central gun shop.
Constance Mallinson on Manet's and von Werefkin's Ragpickers
Few previous painters were capable of challenging and disturbing the consumerist mentality and self-satisfaction of the middle class and the economic and social systems that sustained them.
Wendy Letven on Simona Prives
The alchemy of using a fragment of a scan of parsley to represent a forest was a revelation.
Laurie Hogin on Grant Wood
The readmission of artists like Grant Wood into high art discourses may open the door to many more types of representation, inclusive of many more places, lives, and subjectivities.
Dear Weather: Buzz Spector on Hobbema, Gainsbourough, & Vermeer
Little popcorn puffs or higher, more distant, cirrus... a shorthand for how the duration of a painting allows for some time.
Raoul Middleman on Paul Cezanne
There is almost a metaphysical postponement of finish throughout these portraits, a hesitation as if waiting for an informant of the future to complete them.
Sam McKinniss on Aaron Zulpo
...the evidence of his happiness made me happy, and for that I was grateful.
Claire Scherzinger on Kelly Richardson
...Her work is a portal for the viewer to step into as the room transforms into a theatre of the mind.
Barry Nemett: Beholding Bonnard on a Vaulted Altar
Over and over again, the sky changed: until it was brand new. Or I was.
Melinda Stickney-Gibson on Susan Rothenberg
It's a curious thing to feel an immediate and unflagging connection and respect for a fellow painter's work
Marc Handelman on Martin Johnson Heade
The jungle is gathered as a flat organization of space, folded, and pierced so as to connect multiple locations.
Rackstraw Downes on Hercules Segers at the MET
Once you get into his weird scale and murmuring color a whole world opens up.
A Call to Action: Kelli Scott Kelley on Julie Heffernan
The bare-breasted heroine, the apparent caretaker of the heap, wielding a chainsaw...
Murray Zimiles on Kazimir Malevich
In keeping with communist doctrine, he claims that his work glorifies the proletariat, in the form of the Russian peasantry.