Painting After Art is Dead

Wendy Collin Sorin

Wendy Collin Sorin is a visual artist in Durham, North Carolina, whose work is a meditation on the grid, the passing of time, and the deconstruction of language.
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Milford Graves

Graves spent nearly 40 years investigating the healing potential of music.
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Louise Nevelson

Blogging about Matt reminded me of Louise’s work/career which made me want to look for more.

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Matt Gonzalez

Not to be missed is Beauty Will Be Convulsive, new works by Matt Gonzalez, which runs concurrently with the Terry Powers show at Dolby Chadwick Gallery.

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Alyse Rosner

Hyperallergic says Alyse is grappling with the question of how to make an abstract painting reflect both the personal and collective.

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Minoru Onoda

Currently the subject of a major retrospective at the Himeji City Museum of Art in Japan, Onoda has been increasingly thrust into the limelight in the wake of recent reappraisals of the Gutai group led by scholars and curators such as Joan Kee, Ming Tiampo, Alexandra Monroe, and Shoichi Hirai.

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Baldo Diodato

Artforum notes that in Baldo’s newest the canvas is transformed into a participating body, a seismograph that records movements, pressures, controlled accidents, and the steps—confident or uncertain—of the viewer, who sets the exhibition’s tempo.

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Judith Godwin

When Judith Godwin died on May 29 in her ninety-second year, the art world lost the last living member of a generation of women Abstract Expressionists, a group of artists largely overlooked in favor of their male peers.

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Hermann Nitsch

With the current exhibition “88. malaktion” the Nitsch Foundation is showing brand new action paintings from the artist’s latest painting action (88th). The vibrant artworks were created this spring in preparation for the painting assistants who will accompany Hermann Nitsch at this year’s Bayreuth Festival in Germany. Inspired by the colorful, broadly expansive music of Richard Wagner, Hermann Nitsch demonstrates both his lyrical and radical approach to “color as substance.”

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Adriana Varejão

Gagosian (via Artforum) says Varejão propels the discipline of painting into the realm of the physical, visceral artes plasticas, disrupting entrenched narratives in pursuit of untold histories.

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Travis Jeppesen’s 2019 essay “Queer Abstraction (Or How to Be a Pervert with No Body). Some Notes Toward a Probability” asked whether nonrepresentational art could ever be understood as queer or nonbinary. Curator Tomek Baran took Jeppesen’s question as the starting point for “WOW,” an exhibition that brings together works by Marta and Grzegorz. Both artists escape classification, making use of seemingly spontaneous and yet exacting gestures that situate their paintings, textiles, and installations somewhere between construction and destruction.

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Booooooom says Friedman’s process is methodical and repetitive. However, while working within certain self-imposed parameters, his compositions still retain a fair degree of freedom as Friedman ultimately seeks to harness the kind of meditative flow and instinctual state of mind encountered within nature.

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