Painting After Art is Dead

Bridget Riley

Glad to see Ms Riley get a much deserved and well received retro. Hard to overstate her importance to the canon.

#bridgetriley

John Bunker

AbCrit reviews this Londoner’s newest show– follow him on IG.

#johnbunker

Pat Passlof and Milton Resnick

While both canon icons are deceased, a Two Coats article on a posthumous show at their foundation spurred me to create a Pinterest for Pat, only to find that their algorithms also thought it a sensible pairing with Milton.

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Albert Oehlen

Albert has a new show up at Serpentine that’s an interpretation of the Rothko Chapel. The gallery says “Albert understand the strategies of surrealism as a kind of toolbox.” Though not strictly abstraction, I think of the automatism of the surrealists as a necessary precursor to fully non-objective painting (e.g., without Gorky, there is no Lee Krasner)

#albertoehlen

Alma Thomas

If you ever hear a painter refer to another painter as a “painter’s painter”, this

#almathomas

Ron Gorchov

Artforum felt Ron’s current show is noteworthy. You’ll have to follow a hashtag to find this older painter on IG.

#rongorchov

Trudy Benson

Wow. Here’s an older review from Artforum.

#trudybenson

Matthew Abbott

Sorry to discover Matthew because his work had come to an end.

#matthewabbott

Martha Tuttle

Artforum noted Martha’s current show at Rhona Hoffman– follow her on IG!

#marthatuttle

Betty Parsons

Not the gallerist- the artist (ht to #artforum).

#bettyparsons

Women of Bauhaus

#tbt

Not surprising given its genesis in the 20s to read in this show review of the (not only) marginalization but exploitation of the women of Bauhaus.

#bauhaus #womenartists #earlymodernism

Mark Rothko

This is fun.

Rothko has a place in my practice of note- my decision to step away from grad school was made while writing a paper for a seminar on self-portraiture for which I was writing about abstract expressionism as a form of self portraiture featuring Rothko as exemplar. I made a gallery on Pinterest at some point, too.

#markrothko