Painting After Art is Dead

Medrie MacPhee

In a revelatory two-person exhibition at the New York Studio School, David Humphrey and Medrie, both technical virtuosos, offer works on paper that acknowledge and vanquish Guston’s quandary, but from divergent starting points.

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Garth Weiser

Hyperallergic says Garth Weiser Explores the Limits of Technical Wizardry.

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Caroline Monnet

Caroline is a multidisciplinary artist from Outaouais, Quebec who recently was a Hopper Prize finalist (like Osamu and Amy).

#carolinemonet

Amy Kim Keeler

Amy like Osamu is a Hopper Prize finalist.

#amykimkeeler

Osamu Kobayashi

Is a Hopper Prize finalist.

#osamukobayashi

Martin Kline

Two coast says Martin’s meticulous and thoughtful abstractions, on view at Heather Gaudio Fine Art, are deceptively simple.

#martinkline

Andrew Zarou

Two Coats notes that order, in Zarou’s studio, is not strict thinking or obsessive tidiness but rather the platonic quality of harmonic totality.

#andrewzarou

John McCracken

Read an essay by art historian Robin Clark about the work of John McCracken.

#johnmccracken

Ericka Bruno

Saw this in Ericka’s IG feed recently which you should all follow.

#erickabruno

June Edmunds

Is one of the artists featured in Artsy’s Portrayals of Black Community (I first saw her at the last Armory Show)

#juneedmunds

Rachel Strum

Has work in In the Abstract at Hashimoto Contemporary.

#rachelstrum

Bob Hooper

Throughout Bob Hooper’s exhibition of abstract paintings at Regards is a recurring motif: a “circle-square,” to borrow the artist’s term for it. It feels oddly familiar, calling to mind a teardrop, a punctuation mark, a speech bubble, an element of a floor plan, or perhaps even some type of wayfinding marker. And yet, subjected to Hooper’s inversions and manipulations, the circle-square elides any sort of referential comprehension, taking on a life of its own and infusing the show with an unstable, electric energy.
#bobhooper

Jason Moran

I have known about Jason Moran’s work as a jazz musician and written about what I see as a major similarity between abstract paintings and jazz (that modality and content are one and the same). Apparently he feels that in some sense, since he makes abstract paintings himself.

#jasonmoran

Kerry Irvine

White Hot says Kerry’s newest selection of pandemic era ab-ex are a tribute to beauty’s persistence.
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Jill Nathanson

Intriguingly titled “Light Phrase,” Jill Nathanson’s current exhibition at Berry Campbell Gallery features luminous planes of crystalline color meeting and overlapping in harmony.

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