Two Coats of Paint

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By Two Coats of Paint - Jan 15, 2019

ERASURE AS AESTHETIC PRINCIPLE AT PIEROGI

Contributed by Gina DeCagna / Capacious and compelling in content, “Under Erasure,” co-curated by Raphael Rubinstein and Heather Rubinstein...

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By Two Coats of Paint - Jan 12, 2019

TWO COATS SELECTED GALLERY GUIDE: JANUARY 2019

Contributed by Sharon Butler / The new year brings good news for Bushwick gallery goers: The L Train, which was scheduled for a 15-month...

Works, Gallery, Artist, exhibitions, gallery guide, new art, New York, painting, Sharon Butler Read More ...

By Two Coats of Paint - Jan 11, 2019

ART AND FILM: CHEAPENING THE ART WORLD ONE TOXIC BITE AT A TIME

Contributed by Kristen Clevenson / The Price of Everything (2018), a documentary film directed by Nathaniel Kahn, seeks to assess the...

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By Two Coats of Paint - Jan 7, 2019

IMMEDIATE, PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL: STUDIO VISIT WITH ELISE SIEGEL

Contributed by Leslie Wayne / For as long as I've known Elise Siegel, she has been making three-dimensional work about the psyche....

Works, Body, Sculpture, Acrylic, ceramics, Leslie Wayne, portrait Read More ...

By Two Coats of Paint - Jan 4, 2019

MELISSA MEYER: CLOSE ATTENTION TO FAMILIAR SURROUNDINGS

Contributed by Sharon Butler / A Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts colleague once told me that taking a new route each day was the...

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By Two Coats of Paint - Jan 2, 2019

CARTER RATCLIFF: ART IN THE AGE OF TRUMP

Contributed by Carter Ratcliff / Let's begin with a painting-not sure it's a work of art-that could have been painted only now, during...

Works, Art, White, Painting, Carter Ratcliff, politics Read More ...

By Two Coats of Paint - Dec 30, 2018

STEPHEN MAINE AND THE ICE TRADE

Contributed by Sharon Butler / KK Kozik's novel ICEHOUSE Project Space in Sharon, Connecticut, is an old 10 x 15-foot wooden shed that...

Painting, Canvas, ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon Butler, Stephen Maine Read More ...

By Two Coats of Paint - Dec 29, 2018

A GALLERY CLOSES: EBK IN HARTFORD

Contributed by Neil Daigle Orians / The first time I visited EBK Gallery on Pearl Street in Hartford was during my second-to-last semester...

Street, Exhibition, Gallery, Painting, School, gallery closing, Hartford, Neil Daigle Orians Read More ...

By Two Coats of Paint - Dec 22, 2018

VIJA CELMINS: TO FIX THE IMAGE IN MEMORY

Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Anyone walking out of the Vija Celmins retrospective that opened last week at SFMoMA thinking how...

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By Two Coats of Paint - Dec 19, 2018

QUICK STUDY

Contributed by Sharon Butler / The semester is over and I'm finally catching up on the news. Here are links to some of the stories...

Ceramic, Art, Quick study, Sharon Butler Read More ...

By Two Coats of Paint - Dec 15, 2018

TWO COATS SELECTED GALLERY GUIDE: DECEMBER 2018

Contributed by Sharon Butler / Well, hello there December. I just completed a hectic semester teaching three courses-New York Academy...

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By Two Coats of Paint - Dec 10, 2018

ART AND FILM: VAN GOGH'S SANITY

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / “One man's insanity is another man's genius,” Joyce Carol Oates has written. In the popular imagination,...

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By Two Coats of Paint - Dec 10, 2018

YES, JULIAN SCHNABEL PAINTED THE VAN GOGHS

Contributed by Sharon Butler / While watching At Eternity's Gate, Julian Schnabel's new film about Vincent Van Gogh, I wondered if...

Film, Painting, Drawing, film, Sharon Butler Read More ...

By Two Coats of Paint - Dec 2, 2018

INTERVIEW WITH JANE SWAVELY: TOXIC GLOW

Contributed by Sharon Butler / When Jane Swavely isn't working in the old-school LES loft where she raised two sons, she is at a cabin...

Works, School, gestural abstraction, interview, landscape, Sharon Butler Read More ...

By Two Coats of Paint - Nov 30, 2018

WARHOL AT THE WHITNEY: A PROVOCATEUR FOR ALL SEASONS

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / There are certainly strong generational reasons for the Whitney to mount “Andy Warhol - From A...

History, Art, Andy Warhol, Jonathan Stevenson, politics Read More ...

By Two Coats of Paint - Nov 18, 2018

JENNY SNIDER: MUTINY, REBELLION, THE EXPERIENCE OF LIFE

Contributed by Jason Andrew / Jenny Snider is a storyteller. The content and form of her art come from a variety of sources: history,...

History, Art, Jason Andrew, Narrative painting Read More ...

By Two Coats of Paint - Nov 14, 2018

NORA GRIFFIN HOT TAKE

Contributed by Sharon Butler / In Nora Griffin's lively new paintings at Fierman, aesthetic tropes from eighties graphics - the stepped...

Works, Pattern, Art, Graphic, Pastel, Painter, Painting, 1980s, gestural abstraction, Sharon Butler Read More ...

By Two Coats of Paint - Nov 12, 2018

BRIAN DUPONT AND RACHAEL NEVINS: SUFFERING FOR SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL

Contributed by Sharon Butler / Brian Dupont's paintings, on view at Adah Rose Gallery in Bethesda, Maryland, through December 31, are...

Painting, Industrial, Oil, Gallery, poetry, Sharon Butler, text paintings Read More ...

By Two Coats of Paint - Nov 11, 2018

THE GREAT WAR AND MODERNISM

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The First World War - known as the Great War before it became necessary to number them - is one...

History, Jonathan Stevenson, politics Read More ...

By Two Coats of Paint - Nov 6, 2018

TWO COATS SELECTED GALLERY GUIDE: NOVEMBER 2018

Contributed by Sharon Butler / DON'T MISS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TELL TRUMP TO GO FUCK HIMSELF POUND SAND:VOTE DEMOCRATIC ON TUESDAY NOVEMBER...

Painting, Gallery, Exhibition, exhibitions, Sharon Buter Read More ...

Emma Elliott presents new marble sculptures at on form 18

Emma Elliott is one of forty sculptors selected for on form 18, a biennial exhibition of sculpture in stone at Asthall Manor in the Cotswolds. She joins world renowned and... Read more ...