colorfieldpainting – Painting After Art is Dead

Lauren Dana Smith

Radical reorientation is an interview with Lauren that touches on leaving Brooklyn.

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Lucy Mink

Lucy is in Guided By Voices at LABspace (an artist-run gallery directed by Ellen Letcher + Julie Torres) with Sharon and others.

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Amanda Williams

At Gagosian, Amanda investigates the possibilities and limitations of a world shaped by color.

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Krista Louise-Smith

gets a nod in Two Coats newest gallery guide RE: her newest at Carvahlo Park.

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Maureen McQuillian

Beauty in Rigor (Two Coats of Paint) is a wonderful essay about some wonderful paintings.
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Cameron Harvey

Cameron is an artist based in LA and is a recent Hopper Prize finalist.

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Robert Janitz

Two Coats notes that after years of making paintings that seemed primarily about the physical experience of making the object, Robert now appears compelled to turn his attention gingerly outward and explore a somewhat more playful approach.

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Mongezi Ncaphayi

Artsy says Mongezi is one to watch.

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Liz Nielsen

Artforum says Liz’s newest evoke Frankenthaler and the saturated hues of her photographs seem to simultaneously protrude and recede into space, yielding surprisingly tactile visual sensations.

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Nicholas Howey

White Hot covers Nicholas newest series of watercolors at The Madoo Conservancy.

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Sam Friedman

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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Lorien Suarez-Kanerva

White Hot says Lorien is a dedicated abstractionist and that she finds her passion for the transcendental echoed and unfolded in the thinking of earlier thinker-seekers such as Henry David Thoreau, Carl Jung, and Paul Klee.

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Sam Francis

Yet another one from the canon I’ve never blogged about until realizing (after sharing his name with a student) the same.

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Lauren Luloff

Lauren Luloff paints directly onto silk fabric with dye, merging image with its support, perhaps in the spirit of Helen Frankenthaler, recalling her stain-soaking method and its variations.
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Irene Neal

Donald Kuspit at White Hot elaborates on Irene’s Elated Abstraction.

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