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Have We Been Misreading Jasper Johns All Along? Part One
Perhaps we have all been reading his work too narrowly since his first show at Leo Castelli, more than a half-century ago.
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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End of the Road: Matt Bollinger at Zürcher Gallery
In his third and best exhibition, Matt Bollinger: Independence, MO, at Zürcher Gallery, the artist continues to remember and invent aspects of his youth, family and friends, while growing up in and around Independence, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City.
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Sexual Abstraction: Judy Ledgerwood’s Recent Paintings
If, as Amy Sillman has said, “The elephant in the room is sex,” Judy Ledgerwood’s paintings ask the viewer: What exactly do you think you are looking at?
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Piercing Clarity: Gail Mazur’s Poetry
Aptly titled, Forbidden City is Gail Mazur’s seventh book of poetry. Before getting the book — which she sent me — I knew that Gail had written the poems in the years after her husband, Michael Mazur (1935–2009), had died of congestive heart failure.
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The Fly in the Ointment: Lee Krasner
One view of Lee Krasner’s career is that there is no dramatic rupture marking the emergence of something new — at least not like the widely celebrated ones that occurred in the work of her husband, Jackson Pollock, or with Willem de Kooning, or, later, Philip Guston.
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David Reed’s Panorama
The last time David Reed showed paintings in New York was in 2007, nearly a decade ago.
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Lui Shtini’s Enigmatic Paintings
I imagine that Lui Shtini has a growing group of admirers – many of them painters – just as Myron Stout, Christina Ramberg, Barbara Rossi, and Thomas Nozkowski did before him.
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An Ivory Tower Artist: Joe Bradley’s Recent Paintings, Sculptures, and Drawings
His work suggests that once Bradley conceives of his project, he is able to pass effortlessly through the style, like an adept actor able to play any role as long as it isn’t too serious and doesn’t require a lot of feeling.
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Full Steam Ahead: Steve DiBenedetto’s Recent Paintings
Steve DiBenedetto has not been sitting still. I cannot imagine that he ever does.
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The Wild Children of William Blake
Raymond Foye – who possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of various underground currents of poetry, music, and art – is the only person on the planet who could have conceived of this exhibition, Dark Star: Abstraction and Cosmos at Planthouse.
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Conversations Can Be a Way of Moving Forward: Melissa Meyer’s Category-Resistant Abstractions
Since 2001, Melissa Meyer has continued to reinvent herself without severing her connections to Abstract Expressionism or, more particularly, the brushstroke and drawing in paint.
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Angela Dufresne Has a Big Heart
Dufresne’s drawings are humorous, whimsical, tender, odd, sarcastic, fantastic, sympathetic, and sweet. She celebrates the wacky and wonderful side of human behavior when overtaken by erotic passion, as well as reaches inexplicable places in our imagination.