Carmen Neely titled the eight paintings in her first New York solo show after phrases she had recently heard (“Just gotta caress it a little,” “Don’t just hope it!,” “A good fortune can ruin your life…
In a brief artist's statement for the catalogue accompanying the 2006 exhibition "High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975," Roy Colmer (1935-2014) mentioned video feedback no less than thr…
In this exhibition, which originated at Mercer Union in Toronto, Duane Linklater offeredan assortment of artworks by himself and by family members that raised urgent questions about how institutions…
For her first exhibition at Feuer/Mesler and second solo presentation in New York, painter Loie Hollowell hewed to a personal vocabulary of forms—almonds, bullet-shaped protuberances, slender-peaked d…
The title of Cecily Brown’s exhibition at the Drawing Center, “Rehearsal,” was intended to reflect the meaning of the Old French version of the term. Rehercier, a wall text instructed, meant “to go…
Speaking with a Los Angeles Times reporter in 1989,Lynda Benglis expressed her disdain for a Puritan strain of society that, as she put it, “gets nervous if things are too pleasurable, too…
More than halfway through “Blackness in Abstraction,” an austere photograph by Carrie Mae Weems posed a Mies van der Rohe leather daybed—conjuring a truant psychoanalytic patient, perhaps—against a wa…