Colin Brant paints a peaceable kingdom of leopards, orangutans, owls, and parrots.
Jeff Bailey Gallery
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Joshua Marsh’s Inimitable Drawings
Marsh might begin with close observation, but he ends up in a fever dream — a garden of otherworldly delights.
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Scar Tissue
One of the things that I admire about Brenda Goodman is her willingness to push a painting into a territory all its own. She isn’t interested in stylistic consistency or any of the other common denominators that can be used to brand one’s work.
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An Artist’s Hard-Earned Dream Drawings
HUDSON, N.Y. — One of the worst things an artist can have is too much skill.
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Tough, Raw and Paradoxical: Fabienne Lasserre’s New Sculpture
Fabienne Lasserre makes objects she calls sculptures, but they could very well be paintings. They could also be remnants from a demolition site or detritus from a car bomb explosion.
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Before We Are Completely Swept Away: Joshua Marsh’s Recent Paintings
The changes that Joshua Marsh has made since his debut show at Jeff Bailey in 2010 — which I reviewed for the Brooklyn Rail (October 2010) — should be mentioned. In As If, his second exhibition at the same gallery, he shows drawings for the first time — thirty works on clay-coated paper measuring 5 ½ x 7 inches. Marsh relies on scribbling and shading to locate forms. Some drawings are airy and open, while others are dark and dense, where he has gone over an area countless times.
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27th Street Chelsea Galleries Hard Hit by Sandy Will Reopen This Weekend
Five galleries sit in a row on the northern edge of Chelsea, lined up on 27th Street between Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues. All of them are fairly small, by Chelsea standards, and a bit rougher around the edges, perhaps a bit more experimental, than your average neighborhood space. Unfortunately, all of them were also hit incredibly hard by Hurricane Sandy.
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A Playful Take on Modernism’s Austerities
As a painting major in Albany, New York during the late 1980s, it was easy to sprint a few blocks from the art department over to the Nelson Rockefeller Art Collection to grab some inspiration from museum-quality art. Nostalgia for the collection’s treasure trove of modernist work came to mind while taking in Christian Maychack’s latest exhibit at Jeff Bailey, being that so much of his work, to my eye, playfully sends up or gently skewers high modernism.
