Painting Shows in the Lower East Side
LES Gallery tour last week left me dispirited. Post hiatus and after experiencing some but not all (thank god!) of the effects of the Covid Era, I want more. Most of the [...]
What Meets the Eye
Matt Bollinger’s American Tragedy
Bollinger’s paintings are animated by a combination of sharp edges and soft transitions, bright lights and dark shadows, and a contrast between silhouettes and delineated [...]
I like Albers and Morandi—But Not Together
…because they are so elegant and so tastefully presented that I keep imagining a living room in shades of ecru with earth-toned pillows. The concept of the curator seems to [...]
The Drawings of Matt Freedman
In performance, Matt drew upside down on a pad he hung around his neck—so generous! rightside up for us. By chance and this is very Freedmanesque if you know what I mean, I [...]
The Interior Life of Gideon Bok
Bok is a good painter with a good subject, a classic—his studio, which functions both as a world to observe, a portrait of his family and a metaphor for , perhaps—the [...]
Gestalt Exercises #4 and the Color Walk
Differentiating and Unifying “Try this experiment with a painting you like. Notice the lines and the drawing apart from the objects painted and the colors; for example, [...]
Seph Rodney’s Great Mistakes
It’s come to this—reviewing a reviewer’s review of their own reviews. Also Reflecting on the Mistakes I’ve Made as an Art Critic is two months old—maybe [...]
Quarantine: Gestalt Exercises #3: Attending and Concentrating
“For a brief period pay attention to some visual object for example, a chair. As you look at it, notice how it clarifies itself by dimming out the space and objects around [...]
Quarantine Gestalt Exercises #2: Opposing Forces
“Think of some pairs of opposites in which neither member could exist if it were not for the real or implied existence of its opposite.”*. (If you have not read the first [...]
Quarantine Gestalt Exercise #1: Feeling the Actual
Gestalt exercise #1: Try for a few minutes to make up sentences stating what you are at this moment aware of. Begin each sentence with the words “now” or [...]