Art
Paintings Glimpsed from a Taxi
Stephen Westfall seems to be the geometric painter who cannot do variations on a motif, which gives his work an interesting twist.
John Yau
John Yau is an award winning poet, critic, curator, and publisher of Black Square Editions. He has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction, and art criticism.
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Marilyn Lerner's Random and Deliberate Geometries
I have long thought of Lerner as an outlier whose inspirations include Hilma af Klint, gameboards, tantric art, and her trips to Turkey, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
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A Little-Known Chapter of Ralph Humphrey’s Career
There is something inelegant and unstylish about these paintings.
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Frank Bowling, or the Odd Man Out
After starting out as a figurative artist, Frank Bowling began pouring paint in 1973; he has always been the figure who doesn’t fit.
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Demotic Abstraction with a Twist
By concentrating on detail, which is a central feature of Barbara Takenaga’s work, she has gone against the reductive tendencies of Minimalism that still haunt painting.
Books
What Is a Poet?
Deeply suspicious of anything that smacks of self-importance, of making a blanket statement or pronouncement, Clark Coolidge resists nailing down what the poet and poem are.
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A Less Explored Side of Jasper Johns
When I visited Johns a few months ago, I saw two works that led me on a search for paintings that did not neatly fit in with his larger oeuvre.
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A Painter of a Different Magnitude
Catherine Murphy makes paintings that get under my skin, that haunt me, that seem inexhaustible and mysterious.
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Paintings of Bodily Residue and Extra-Long Tongues
In Emily Furr’s paintings, objects penetrate the openings of other objects, but the body is nowhere to be seen.
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The Power of Painterly Innocence
Billy White’s artistic kinships seem to be more personal and experiential than cultural or racial.
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Taking Stock of Painting Today
It is not every day that you can go to Chelsea and see more than 100 paintings by 46 artists within the space of a few blocks.
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“I Want to Paint Every Color in the World”
By rejecting monochrome and the grid’s guarantee of homogeneity, Stanley Whitney has transformed aspects of Minimalism and Color Field painting into something all his own.