Another reason it pays to follow hashtags on Instagram. Magalie shows with Corbett vs Dempsey.
#magalieguerin
Donald Martiny
Those of you who drive past North Hills in Raleigh on the reg have seen Donald’s piece in the NCMA’s Art Window in the BOA building. As someone who loves Fabian Marcaccio’s paintants and Roy Lichtenstein’s brushstrokes, these make me super super happy. Check out more of them!
#donaldmartiny
Marcelyn McNeil
While looking at upcoming calls at Lawndale in Houston, saw that Marcelyn is in an interesting show with Kristen Cochran and Katie Heinlein. A little poking around reveals she also does work on paper.
#marcelynmcneil
Norman Bluhm
One of the Tumblr feeds I follow threw up one of Norman’s pieces from the late ’60s- love this period into the early ’70s.
#normanbluhm
Yann Houri
If this is indicative of how Frieze Week v.Los Angeles is gonna go down, I’m gonna have to check it out next year. I want to swim in this piece!
#yannhouri
Gwen Gunter
Norman Lewis
Since February is Black History Month, I thought it was worth digging in a little bit to find out what part of US History had perhaps been missing from my education- I know for a fact of course that there are black painters making work I love (Stanley and Elias, looking at you).
After reading this great article from Art News circa 2014, I settled on Norman. If you guessed from the print below that he was influenced by Ad Reinhardt, my theory is that went both ways. Read this bio from the Smithsonian and check out this Pinterest board I made as well.
#normanlewis
Marie Breiling
Abstractmag has an article about Marie in the context of an upcoming exhibition of work she completed during a recent residency. Time well spent if you ask me. Please check out the other images in the article!
#mariebreiling
Jennifer Riley
Two Coats of Paint has a catalog essay up from Jennifer’s show at Silas Van Morisse late last year. Read more to learn about her process.
#jenniferriley
Sarah Crowner
A friend sent me this interesting article from Vogue. I’ve been following Sarah’s brand of reinvigorated Modernism on Instagram so it was nice to have an excuse to learn a little more about her, especially that she does ceramic work using tile in addition to work with the American Ballet Theater. Glad to see talent having a deserved cultural moment.
#sarahcrowner
Heather Day
Juxtapoz has an article up about Pour, a new show by Kathryn McNaughton (who I’ve followed for a while on Instagram) and Heather Day, who is new to me. The paintings are a result of a short sabitcal to focus on work in semi-solitude, which sounds fantastic, and impactful, since the main focus of her work is her synesthesia.
#heatherday
Zest
Zest is a French graffiti artist-turned-gallery-artist; Widewalls had a blurb up about his newest show and there’s a great bio there, too. The paintings are pretty good and his public work is really strong, easy to see why he caught the eye of Art world folks.
#zest
Pat Steir
So glad to hear this show is happening, and at one of the most beautiful art venues in the US (if you love art and haven’t visited the Barnes Foundation in Philly get on it)! The first Steir I ever saw was at the Guggenheim (she was a fellow with their foundation btw). Wow.
#patsteir
Holly Miller
Wide Walls gave Holly some love in their article about minimalists to collect in 2019. Was interesting to check out her site and zoom in on a few of these- I think the fact that’s she’s channeling Ryman is why her work stood out to me in the article above.
#hollymiller
James Siena
One of the blogs I have in my RSS feed is Two Coats of Paint. They used the image below as the headline for their January gallery review, and the show is at Pace, so I paid attention. I’ve heard of Siena before (he’s got twenty on me so he’s been at it for a minute) and decided to look deeper. (One of the) reasons to keep this blog is to remember to look what other folks are doing (and keep a record of things I like). I won’t lie- reviewing his catalogue gives me hope that some day mine might be worth some young abstract painter doing the same.
#jamessiena
