A gallery show that turns the form of the grid inside out, shedding more light on this iconic 20th-century favorite.
Lori Bookstein Fine Art
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Enigmas of the Visible: Paintings by Anne Tabachnick
We usually describe seeing an object by using the past tense: “I saw.” The emphasis on its foreclosed quality can make us forget how open-ended seeing is. The dynamism of a seen object is every bit as charged as our bodies’ initial physiological responses to it.
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Unpacking Willard Boepple’s Monoprints
Willard Boepple’s solo show of monoprints at Lori Bookstein Fine Art opens with one of the artist’s mounted resin works, “Ways and Means” (2002), a purple structure of overlapping translucent geometric forms.
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Painting the Wilderness of Artistic Imagination
Demonstrating formal finesse, visual wit and disarmingly direct technique, the recent paintings of Olive Ayhens are a pleasure to behold.
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The Power of Three Small Paintings
While touring a few of the many small exhibition spaces scattered throughout the city, I was pleasantly reminded that painting requires neither heroic-sized canvases nor the prestige of whitewashed airplane hangars to succeed as significant art.
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Beer with a Painter: Tine Lundsfryd
To enter the studio of Tine Lundsfryd in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, you climb a dark, narrow staircase lined with paintings, into a light, open space: rooms for living, dining, and working. Each furnishing or decoration that has been allowed to remain in this very minimalist space is perfectly aesthetic, evocative of a trip or a connection to another artist.
