Archive for March 2020
Sam McKinniss Recollects Celebrities in Their Golden Age at JTT
With his most recent show at JTT in the Lower East Side, Sam McKinnis explores figuration painting by memorializing iconic celebrity subjects.
Read MoreMiles Jaffe Introduces Neopop Wall Sculptures
And, yes, it’s just as cool as it sounds. Miles Jaffe creates enormous tubes of paint and they’re “dripping” everywhere.
Read MoreThe Impenetrable Stare of Cinga Samson
They’re self-portraits, where Samson hopes to share his own journey and have others resonate with that, but the empty gray eyes imply an anonymous impenetrability.
Read MoreYves Tessier Tackles Antiquity in Modernism
His simplistic use of line and color depicts figures in everyday settings. This, he says, represents a direct way to view his world.
Read MoreKate Gottgens Plays with Fragmentation and Disjointedness
Kate Gottgens paints scenes that have an ephemeral nature, almost as if they could change at any moment and the scene beyond would continue to play out in its own world.
Read MoreJennifer Guidi Invites You on A Spiritual Journey At Gagosian
Abstraction is Guidi’s ideal form of expression, and each of these works is backed with such emotion that the mere shapes are all you need in order to make sense of her message.
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