8/14/14 8/14/14

Judy Glantzman on Dawn Clements

Dawn Clements’ giant watercolor on paper, capturing dying peonies, is achingly beautiful. Her touch is light, her eye, and hand in a lock step; the drawing is a placeholder for where the peonies once were.

8/7/14 8/7/14

Deborah Oropallo on Marcel Duchamp

What I discovered viewing that piece at 15 is that the experience of standing in front of great art always does the same thing to me: stops me in my tracks, points out my own limitations as to what I thought was possible in Art.

7/31/14 7/31/14

Robert Berlind on Sigmar Polke

Has anyone pushed the attitude of anti-art so relentlessly? Beyond attacking notions of esthetic unities and good taste, he seems to intentionally abjure coherent communication.

5/29/14 5/29/14

Christopher Stackhouse on Leland Bell

Bell fosters belief in the moments the painting captures and makes legible the emotional, intellectual tenor of his aesthetic.

5/1/14 5/1/14

Virginia Wagner on Anselm Kiefer

I am alone, I put the ash flower; in the glass of ripened black, sister mouth; the word you speak lives on before the windows; and silent climbs me, just as I had dreamt.

4/24/14 4/24/14

Barry Nemett on Antonio López García

Antonio López García's painting of a bathroom fixture imprinted itself in my art-schooled heart, and all these years later, its mark hasn't faded.

4/17/14 4/17/14

Zachary Wollard on Max Beckmann

Side by side, they employ a breathtaking collagist grace. It’s as if a larger, epic painting from the 19th century has swallowed a Dadaist sleeping pill.