I really enjoy (as regular readers know) wistfully if also mildly resentfully perusing Two Coat’s NYC gallery guides. This Jan’s features Jemima’s Wild Reveries at Anat Ebgi (as well as plugging new work by Dona and Jacqueline). Yeah, I sort of think of Ross a little bit also.
#jemimamurphy
was Janice‘s brother and also an abstract painter. Tworkov’s early work owes much to Cézanne. Applying paint in large blocks that flaunt the flatness of the picture plane, his paintings cohered into still lifes, landscapes, and narrative scenes.
More and more
#jacktworkov
made The Artsy Vanguard (now in its eighth year of highlighting the most promising artists working today).
#geoffroypithon
Jasmine Weber at Hyperallergic notes (among other things) that the 83-year-old artist has dubbed her painterly detonations of color, which physically undulate from their surfaces, as “structural abstract expressionism.”
If you like paintings that “hover delicately between figuration and abstraction” check out Mary as well.
#sylviasnowden
Bill Arning notes over at Two Coats that Private Public Gallery has earned its reputation for mounting deeply considered exhibitions of painting that honor artists who have spent decades refining their own private grammars of mark and color, and that Kylie’s first solo exhibition there is fully in that lineage.
#kylieheidenheimer
still makes luscious paintings (thanks Amanda at Two Coats). I’ve previously blogged about her work and made a Pinterest “gallery” (below is from the #armoryshow in 2020).
I remember that she was having her first good art world moment when I was in undergrad. It’s often weird what sticks in your head but I still remember a cover of Art in America with one of her paintings.
More (Brooklyn Rail 2006)
#karindavie
I wasn’t familiar with Allie until I saw below in an ArtNews article about updates to the Detroit Institute of Art’s collection*.
Allie McGhee has been a leading figure in the Detroit art scene since the 1960s. Initially a figurative painter, McGhee moved away from representation and toward the more universal abstract language he is best known for today. His mixed-media paintings, including sculptural works in which he folds, bends, and crumples the canvas, are notable for their signature arcing forms and brilliant washes of color.
*The DIA was among the first museums anywhere to build and exhibit a collection of African American art, which it began in 1943. In 2001 it became the first US museum to name a curator devoted to that field in Valerie J. Mercer, who still serves as the museum’s curator and head of African American art.
#alliemcghee
shows with Thaddeus Ropac (they show some names you know including Heemin and Joan and also Sean Scully who I just wrote quite a bit about). His work is on the edge of figuration/landscape like Dorothea and Maggie also Elliot.
#alibansidar
Taylor Bielki at TUSSLE had words about Stargazer at Portal, which I missed earlier this year. Bielki noted that “looking into each work is like looking at the sky for such a sustained amount of time, or even a body of water, and noticing more finite details within. To me, the flying shards of the palette knife seem to become the stars, the places where canvas shows through resemble glimmers.”
#matthewdelegate
was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists (he was part of the “downtown group”). Marca-Relli was among the 24 out of a total 256 New York School artists included in the Ninth Street Show and in all the following New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals from 1953 to 1957. These Annuals were important because the participants were chosen by the artists themselves.
#conradmarcarelli
is in Terra Ingognita at Field of Play along with others (and gets a nod for below from Two Coats in their most recent gallery guide).
#amymoon
is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, video, and installation. Through material explorations with paper, fabric, plastic, oil pastels, and paint, Almeida investigates the tension between functionality and abstraction, interior and exterior, and the individual and the environment. Artsy notes she (like Suzanne and Teresa) is having a good moment.
#anaclaudiaalmeida
Painting After Art is Dead 