is in V-Effect at Halsey which gets a nod from Two Coats in their February gallery guide. Below is layers of marker, gel ink and ballpoint on Bristol board.
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Joshua Adeyemi
(From Artsy) Adeyemi (b. 1991, Nigeria) is a Neo-traditional artist living and working in Lagos. His mixed-media practice transforms materials such as pallet wood, fabric, leather, aluminum cans, and paper into layered compositions that balance figurative and abstract elements. Drawing on African motifs, symbols, and patterns, Adeyemi’s work explores themes of history, folklore, and personal and political narratives (and is not all abstract).
#joshuaadeyemi
Amy Pleasant
Adam Simon
who has been mentioned on this blog many times (in their capacity as a writer) is showing at Ptolemy with Larry and Michele. There definitely recognizable shapes in their work.
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Olivia Baldwin
is in Slip with Barbara*. Her recent work stems from using irregularly shaped remnants of dyed leather as raw material. She interweaves spectrums of them, pulling strips taut as she attaches them to stretcher bars with upholstery tacks. The narrowing and curving of the pieces warp the grid and pull colors through in unexpected ways.
* yes below is the image I posted yesterday with my blog on Barbara so hit the link above
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Barbara Owen
is one half of Slip at Overlap (with Olivia Baldwin*). She is particularly drawn to and work within the themes of landscape, femininity, and beauty.
*Two Coats published a conversation between Barbara and Olivia in the context of their exhibit
#barbaraowens
UPDATE apologies to Barbara for initially publishing a post with an image incorrectly attributed to her
Choong Sup Lim
Ben Godward says, in the context of Lim’s show “Yard” (Madang) at Shin Gallery, that they don’t paint their sculptures but rather find the color in the city. Ben also notes that while Western artists look to use Western aesthetics to illuminate Eastern philosophy, Choong does the reverse.
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#choongsuplim
Rodney McMillian
Artsy notes galleries and museums are featuring shows of exceptional Black artists who are tackling complex subjects from housing policy to interpersonal relationships. Vielmetter in LA gets a nod for their exhibit Some Lives in the Sunshine featuring Rodney (Suzanne also gets flowers, once again).
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Peter Schuyff
was interviewed recently by Noah Becker, founder and writer at Whitehot Magazine, in the context of his newest in London at Massimo de Carlo.
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Sharon Butler
No one who regularly reads this blog will be surprised to see Sharon’s name, but perhaps surprised for me to blog about her. I have of course (before today), originally in 2020, as I was first discovering my favorite blogazine, when she juried/curated The Daily. The second image below is from a series of paintings that she was making at the time based on very quick sketches she was doing on her phone. The work for me was a step beyond provisional painting, and had a sincerity and love for materials that is lacking in that group. As a creative focused on the active faith it takes to produce in a time after Art has died, while holding the contradiction that it is likely a pointless activity, really resonated, and still does.
Sharon has started off 2026 with a couple of very interesting projects-one at McBride Dillman* and another at CLEA RSKY – so I wanted to update my flowers for her.
*from the gallery- “Sharon Butler’s “new casualism” takes up the incomplete, the provisional, and the unfinished as meaningful categories. Her paintings challenge the authority of polish and perfection, foregrounding process as a form of truth-telling.”
#sharonbutler
Channing Hansen
Kate Nartker
had an amazing show overlapping the turn of the year: Cutting Room at Anchorlight. Not all of it was abstraction of course, and her interest in non-representational forms (like Sabrina) relates to optics- to be clear her main interests are in film and the history of women’s labor. Fascinating stuff- oh did I mention these are made on a loom?
#katenartker
Sabrina Gschwandtner
Mostly posting this for local folks who, like me, fell in love with Kate Nartker’s work because of her recent exhibition at Anchorlight (yes I’ll do a blog about Kate tomorrow). And! Yes, there are images embedded in these patterns- opticality and film are part of a Venn diagram that overlaps many concepts with which abstraction is concerned.
#sabrinagschwandtner
Peter Plagens
I was surprised to find I’ve never noted Peter, probably because he’s often the source of a good Two Coats article rather than the subject (Jonathan covers his newest at Nancy Hoffman calling them “portals and vortexes”).
#peterplagens
Leila Seyedzadeh
Painters on Painting looks at Under the Sky, Above the Sea, a solo exhibition by Leila at the Visual Art Center of New Jersey in Summit.
#leilaseyedzadeh
Painting After Art is Dead 