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
(a few months ago) Jennifer Dudley at Burnaway had some words about Joy’s approach to (what I will call) the architecture of information. If you like the pieces you should also check out Travis and Stanley if you haven’t already. Below is not the work addressed in the article btw ( more here).
#joydrurycox
was one of three artists in Triple Hits at Barbara Davis. Philip at Burnaway has words noting that Mellor’s digitally and hand-worked photographic distortion challenges straightforward communication.
#jademellor
Danielle at Artsy ranks the 10 best public art works installed in 2025 (international version in case you were wondering) and points at Shaikha’s Deliberate Pauses. Mazrou’s practice is anchored in history of art, borrowing formally from minimalism and intellectually from conceptual art. Influenced by artists from the Modernist and Bauhaus Movements – such as Paul Klee, Carle Andre and Wassily Kandinsky – Al Mazrou uses the formal aspects of minimalism to engage in a current fascination with materiality in art.
#shaikhaalmazrou
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
Painting After Art is Dead 