Adam Simon at Two Coats pays respect to Raphael Rubenstein’s take on Paul and also notes that one tends to take in a Pagk canvas quickly, making it easy to miss the many ways in which his false starts, reiterations, miscues, and reworkings belie his apparent minimalism and austerity.
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Betty Cuningham Gallery recently opened What happened to Abstraction? featuring Jake’s abstract paintings from the 1970’s alongside of his imaginary landscapes completed the last 20 years of his life (he shuffled loose in ’14).
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Artforum sez Daniel’s work is animated by the faith that materials are meaningful.
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Artforum notes that Bonolo decided early in her career what she did not want her art practice to be about: the political burden of being a Black woman in South Africa. Born in 1992, the artist found that most of the art history she encountered in her country was charged with the discourses of racial and cultural identity politics. Since her time studying at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town, Kavula has been determined to play and experiment with form.
If readers find the broader conversation about abstraction in the hands of Black creatives interesting, you should look at Artsy’s ’23 curator outlook in which Larry Ossei-Mensah predicts that abstraction by artists of color will become even more prominent in 2023.
#bonolokavula
Artsy says Wanda like Joanne is one of several Women Artists to Watch. These teeter on an edge between abstraction and landscape painting and her newest is site work.
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is included in Junkyard of Dreams at Bortolami. Linklater’s practice is concerned in part with the exploration of the physical and theoretical structures of the museum in relation to the current and historical conditions of Indigenous people and their objects and forms. These explorations are articulated in a myriad of forms including sculpture, photography, film and video, installation and text works.
#duanelinklater
Artforum has words about fear and transcendence in abstract painting, on the occasion of Jame’s new work at Kavi Gupta.
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Galina Kurlat is a photographic artist living in Brooklyn, NY. She earned her BFA in Media Arts from Pratt Institute. She is a recent Hopper Prize finalist.
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David has a new project started online – Semi-finalist (because “first place in art goes to sell outs”).
Anyway the initial iteration is called: Quiet Advocates, and includes Osamu and Stacy as well as Gwen and others.
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Painting After Art is Dead 