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
Category: Abstract Painting
Geoffroy Pithon
made The Artsy Vanguard (now in its eighth year of highlighting the most promising artists working today).
#geoffroypithon
Richard Diebenkorn
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
Sylvia Snowden
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
Kylie Heidenheimer
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
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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Roy Dowell
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
Karin Davie
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.
More (Brooklyn Rail 2006)
#karindavie
Hamlet Dobbins
Jodi Hays at Visual Questions has a chit chat with Hamlet who was a big, early influence on her.
#hamlettdobbins
Robert Ryman
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
Edie Fake
Muzae Sesay
I hope if you’re in the Bay Area you’ve seen Muzae’s newest at pt. 2 Gallery. Juxtapoz had words about his practice several times. The paintings are really something else (I’ve seen a couple irl- this post is a revisit also).
More (IG)
#muzaesesay
Daniel Dezeuze
was a founding member of Supports/Surfaces, known for questioning pictorial illusionism with unmounted stretchers, flexible ladders, and assemblages of collected objects. He is represented by Ceysson & Bénétière.
#danieldezeuze
Georg Karl Pfahler
Karl at Whitehot has words about Georg’s chromatic logic (in the context of a recent, posthumous exhibit of the German artist’s work at Nino Mier Gallery.) Rising through the hard-edge movement after World War II, his work pivoted between Bauhaus experimentalism and New York’s emergent formalist abstraction.
More (estate IG)
#georgkarlpfahler
Stephanie Deady
Jonathan Stevenson discusses Stephanie’s “coolly seductive” paintings on display at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery in Dublin. Below is one of many titled “Emotional Calculus” like the show itself. He notes that, in “due course, the paintings reveal deeper intent, which is to complicate and enrich your ultimate apprehension of the presumptively simple life.”
#stephaniedeady
Painting After Art is Dead 