I really enjoy (as regular readers know) wistfully if also mildly resentfully perusing Two Coat’s NYC gallery guides. This Jan’s features Jemima’s Wild Reveries at Anat Ebgi (as well as plugging new work by Dona and Jacqueline). Yeah, I sort of think of Ross a little bit also.
#jemimamurphy
was Janice‘s brother and also an abstract painter. Tworkov’s early work owes much to Cézanne. Applying paint in large blocks that flaunt the flatness of the picture plane, his paintings cohered into still lifes, landscapes, and narrative scenes.
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#jacktworkov
was a Polish-born American artist whose work, spanning seven decades, is well regarded both in France (where she spent many years) and the United States. Her work lies between figuration and abstraction.
Rebecca at Two Coats has words about a recent, posthumous exhibit of this rarely discussed Modernist.
#janicebiala
Agrade Camiz channels trauma and her youth spent in Rio’s graffiti scene into sensual, urban paintings (she is in Artsy’s Vanguard along with Geoffroy and Sayan).
#agradecamiz
made The Artsy Vanguard (now in its eighth year of highlighting the most promising artists working today).
#geoffroypithon
was influenced by light and architecture. While I had previously made a blog on this West Coast painter, David at Two Coats recently had a revelatory encounter with his oeuvre at Gagosian that is worth the read (and taking some time to revisit his catalog- more and more).
#richarddiebenkorn
Jasmine Weber at Hyperallergic notes (among other things) that the 83-year-old artist has dubbed her painterly detonations of color, which physically undulate from their surfaces, as “structural abstract expressionism.”
If you like paintings that “hover delicately between figuration and abstraction” check out Mary as well.
#sylviasnowden
Bill Arning notes over at Two Coats that Private Public Gallery has earned its reputation for mounting deeply considered exhibitions of painting that honor artists who have spent decades refining their own private grammars of mark and color, and that Kylie’s first solo exhibition there is fully in that lineage.
#kylieheidenheimer
Sestra Kuya are a multidisciplinary artist duo that create both
visual and sound art simultaneously. In 2025, they invented and engineered a process that transmits fluctuating electrical voltage applied to titanium sheets – turning color into soundscapes. Together, they make energy both visible and audible..
#sestrakuya
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show with Miles McEnery. Dowell’s unique visual language, developed over the past 45 years, stems from his interest in cross-cultural iconography and symbols. With a process as varied and layered as his ideation for the work, Dowell thins Flashe paints to achieve a transparent, matte quality once dry.
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#roydowell
still makes luscious paintings (thanks Amanda at Two Coats). I’ve previously blogged about her work and made a Pinterest “gallery” (below is from the #armoryshow in 2020).
I remember that she was having her first good art world moment when I was in undergrad. It’s often weird what sticks in your head but I still remember a cover of Art in America with one of her paintings.
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#karindavie
Jodi Hays at Visual Questions has a chit chat with Hamlet who was a big, early influence on her.
#hamlettdobbins
I’m sure you’ve read about the Cloud Dancer controversy (maybe you’ve seen it framed as a dog whistle to our current, white nationalist administration). As usual I’ll note that two things can both be true- Pantone can be not-ill intentioned and tone deaf. All I see is editors and marketing folks (on all sides) who want clicks and likes but maybe that’s just me. And…
White and white-adjacent hues in the context of Art make me think of Robert. I initially blogged about him with the news that Ryman had passed, and took a little time to reflect on my reactions to his work over the years. This interview from 2007 is helpful. I also made a Pinterest gallery of some of his work.
Here’s an early work from right around the time he really found his voice (’62). Thanks for helping me learn to see Mr Ryman!
#robertryman
Painting After Art is Dead 