Alone, occupying a single wall in the Parrish Art Museum’s light-drenched first gallery space in Water Mill, NY is an improbably massive (10 feet by 20 feet by 1 inch), strangely…
Barbara A. MacAdam
This modest-size, thoughtful, insightful, and shapely show, celebrating the grant program, Anonymous Was A Woman, established in 1996 by philanthropist and artist Susan Unterberg,…
Three books— actually, exhibition catalogues— hint at the diversity of the art being exhibited, considered, and reconsidered today. Together, the following three publications reflect the intellectual…
As the temperature drops and you spend more time indoors this winter, here are three very different art …
What could be more charming and ridiculous than a show that situates itself at the intersection between opulence and buttocks? This inventive gathering pulls…
Lois Dodd and Walter Price are very different artists with ostensibly little in common. But upon further examination, they have more similarities than you might think.
The title of sculptor Mel Kendrick’s exhibition “Seeing Things in Things” at the Parrish Museum in Water Mill, New York is particularly apt. At 73 years old, Kendrick is famous for taking things…
Biography necessarily runs hand in hand with visual-art production. For sculptor and conceptual artist Russell Maltz, living and making are one and the same thing. That said, the affable,…
Fascinated by language, its connection to the visual, and the craft of paper making, McClure became fluent in Japanese and found herself shocked by the many mistranslations she began to encounter,…
As I edge out of almost-post-pandemic confusion and lethargy, three books have awakened my curiosity and steered it in very different directions, together navigating the treacherous shoals of the…
His gathering of marks “is about making a language,” he says. “I couldn’t do enough to get clarity, so I made groupings.” He divided them into categories—“Families,” “Beginnings,” and “Universes…
At 130 pounds, Brie Ruais is equal in weight and material substance to her collaborator: clay. Each work they embark on involves pulling out the partner’s guts and pushing them into a shape.
In a notable revival, the life and career of the late dedicated abstractionist Alice Trumbull Mason has been guided into light through a focused exhibition of sixteen Shutter Paintings at Joan…
What sparks an artist? More to the point, what sparks Marjorie Welish? Clearly, it is she who ignites the multitude of sparks in diagrams and constructions, drawings and plans, paintings and prints,…