Painting After Art is Dead

Don Voisine

It takes the author a minute to realize that abstraction is about looking (maybe they knew it from the beginning), something I think those of us romantically swinging away nearly a century later intuitively know.

#donvoisine

Robert Hyatt

I discovered Robert when he and I were in a show together. Check out more of his newest work.

#roberthyatt

Thomas Nozkowski

So sad to see Thomas has passed. He left some good ones for us!

Ted Larsen

I’ve followed Ted for a while on IG– glad to see he’s landed his inaugural solo show at Joshua Liner.

#tedlarsen

Margaret Neil

I first came across Margaret through an article in Ideel Art on Lyrical Abstraction. Great drawing and she also paints!

#margaretneil

James Flynn

I did a double take when I saw the synopsis for an article titled Surrealism and the Subjective with the image below. The connection to and use of automatism- some would just call it “intuition”- by practitioners of abstraction is well documented and in this instance striking given the technical rigor of work whose apparent premise of planning belies the use of chance.

#jamesflynn

Susanne Bonowicz

I love that Susanne tags her work #urban (probably because it’s one of the first adjectives I thought of).

#susannebonowicz

Sanford Wurmfeld

I found Sanford through someone else’s IG feed, lots of feels about his current show at Minus Space. Can definitely relate to the impulse to adopt a compositional strategy that one can explore indefinitely.

#sanfordwurmfeld

Anna Fasshauer

ARTnews has a really dumb piece up about the first Marfa Art Fair (not even going to link to it), but I can’t get past the first image which is 4 pieces by Anna. I’m sort of obsessed with these now- I created a hashtag for her on IG.

#annafasshauer

Alicia McCarthy

Juxtapoz has a joint up ’bout Alicia’s upcoming show in Brussels. She’s on IG where you can see a fantastic mural she’s been involved with.

#aliciamccarthy

Robert Reed

I’d say this is a profound read about the first and only tenured African American faculty member in the history of the Yale School of Art. Amazing story and really excellent formalist work that belies the notion that abstraction doesn’t stand for other ideas.

I also made a Pinterest “gallery” of his work, including uploading some images myself from other sources.

#robertreed