Warren Isensee

Isensee is an NC-born painter. Riad at Whitehot notes his newest at Miles McEniry.

I first blogged about their work early on (2018!), and att I made a note about how Neo-Geo almost ruined abstract painting (Warren has been making work since the 80’s- here is something from 2001) and that to my eye their practice is committed to formalism (writing that his work is too insistent on being seen to be a sign for some conceptual “agenda”).

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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll

Jacob Cartwright says that, true to its title, the group show “Precisely.” at Flinn Gallery (which also includes Nate and Sarah) is chockablock with the type of “precision-crafted paintings” Anoka and David produce.

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BTW if you like graphic painting take advantage of my meta content. If you like duos, see also Luftwerk, Sestra Kuya and CHIAOZZA.

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Yong Sin

newest is The Grid: Sacred and Secular at Solo. In Rosalind Krauss’s essay “Grids” (link is pdf) she argues that using a grid makes it possible for artists to produce very material objects and speak to the pure materiality of the work while at the same time implying a connection to ideas of spirit and “Being.” In Krauss’s argument, the grid makes a work “sacred and secular” at the same time.”
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