Romantic love for Lisa Yuskavage is something we can deride as unrealistic, yet its sweet, naïve simplicity reminds us of a youthful ideal.
Author Archives: 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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The Eerie Stillness of Domenico Gnoli’s Close-ups of Everyday Details
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
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
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
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
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
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
In 1967, the angel of ambiguity rescued Al Held from the burly heaviness of his body and the formalist ideology of his thinking.