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Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Alexander Gray Associates

Posted inArt

Lorraine O’Grady Still Won’t Play It Safe

by Ela Bittencourt June 7, 2022June 7, 2022

Much like her writing, O’Grady’s photomontages pressure binaries until something other, something “both/and” emerges.

Posted inArt

Hugh Steers Melds Queerness and the Devotional

by Ksenia M. Soboleva March 16, 2021March 17, 2021

Working amid the AIDS crisis, Hugh Steers’s paintings exude a graceful, figurative style that went under-recognized during his brief lifetime.

Posted inArt

The Pioneering Painted Sculptures of Melvin Edwards

Avatar photo by Laura Raicovich December 9, 2019

Edwards’s sculptures, on display at Alexander Grey Associates in New York, establish him as a master of his various crafts with with an acute sense of rhythm and movement.

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Historical Memory Haunts Frank Bowling’s New Paintings

Avatar photo by Zachary Small October 1, 2018October 1, 2018

Now 84, the renowned abstract artist reflects on his Guyanese upbringing and the legacy of colonialism in a striking new series of paintings.

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Frank Bowling, or the Odd Man Out

by John Yau September 9, 2018September 7, 2018

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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Kay Rosen’s Writing on the Wall

Avatar photo by Louis Bury April 7, 2018April 6, 2018

Rosen employs a visual idiom of protest that relies more on wordplay than imagery.

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The Legendary Betty Parsons Meets the Not-So-Legendary Betty Parsons

by John Yau July 9, 2017July 7, 2017

Her reputation as a dealer has conveniently overshadowed her identity as an artist.

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From Montage to Mounting: The Surprisingly Sexual Drawings of Sergei Eisenstein

by Tanner Tafelski February 2, 2017February 1, 2017

Over the course of his life, Sergei Eisenstein amassed 5,000 sketches, including his “sex drawings,” which depict various sex acts that are not limited to humans.

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“You Have to Get Past the Fear”: Joan Semmel on Painting Her Aging, Nude Body

Avatar photo by Clarity Haynes September 9, 2016September 8, 2016

Joan Semmel has created a distinctive body of work largely centered on painted images of her own body.

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Queering Abstract Art with Wrapped, Grommeted, and “Roughed-Up” Paintings

Avatar photo by Clarity Haynes May 12, 2016May 12, 2016

Harmony Hammond has had a pioneering impact on art, in particular through her insistence on feminist and queer content in abstract work.

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The Pursuit of Art, 2015

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli December 26, 2015June 1, 2020

2015 was the Year of the Whitney.

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The Anti-Expressionist: Jack Tworkov’s Paradigm Shift

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli September 5, 2015September 22, 2015

One of the many striking works in the exhibition Jack Tworkov: Mark and Grid is a large abstraction from 1977 called “Knight Series #8 (Q3-77 #2).” Resembling a Synthetic Cubist floor plan, it is in fact an experiment in gaming that looks back to the anti-art of Marcel Duchamp and forward to the rules-based systems of 21st-century conceptual painting.

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