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Dennis Kardon

Dennis Kardon is a painter and writer living and working in New York. A show of his recent paintings, Reflections on the Surface, can be seen at Valentine Gallery. Work and writing can be seen at denniskardon.com.

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A Painter Trades Sex for Romance

by Dennis Kardon December 9, 2018December 7, 2018

Romantic love for Lisa Yuskavage is something we can deride as unrealistic, yet its sweet, naïve simplicity reminds us of a youthful ideal.

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The Eerie Stillness of Domenico Gnoli’s Close-ups of Everyday Details

by Dennis Kardon June 25, 2018June 22, 2018

The paintings, of which Gnoli made only 40, have extreme close points of view that create a portentous, clinical intimacy.

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Why Most People Don’t Get Grant Wood

by Dennis Kardon April 20, 2018April 24, 2018

This exhibition of work by Grant Wood at the Whitney Museum, offers an opportunity to reconsider a very unusual artist who has been pigeonholed as irretrievably conservative and sentimental.

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Sculptural Paintings Oozing with Color

by Dennis Kardon October 4, 2017October 4, 2017

Leslie Wayne’s richly layered paintings remind us of the playfulness and emotional range to be found in abstraction.

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Eric Fischl Paints the Precariousness of Growing Old

by Dennis Kardon June 14, 2017June 13, 2017

In his new show at Skarstedt, the artist creates confrontations between young, fresh bodies and tired, aging flesh.

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Rapt by Strangely Lit and Shadowed Paintings

by Dennis Kardon March 6, 2017March 14, 2021

Jordan Kasey’s painted figures, lit with mysterious, colored light, have the monumentality of Picasso’s Neo-classical period and are as ponderous as whales gliding through the ocean.

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Francis Picabia’s Prescient, Painterly Promiscuousness

by Dennis Kardon January 12, 2017

Thirty years ago, viewers may have found the dramatic shifts in his work bewildering; today it’s obvious that he was an artistic driving force of the 20th century.

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The Disorienting Power of Al Held’s Black-and-White Paintings

by Dennis Kardon March 18, 2016

In 1967, the angel of ambiguity rescued Al Held from the burly heaviness of his body and the formalist ideology of his thinking.

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