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Warp and weft: The grid at Mixed Greens - Two Coats of Paint

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Two Coats of Paint. NYC blogazine for painting, painting, and more painting. Published continuously since 2007. July 31, 2015. Warp and weft: The grid at Mixed Greens. 7:01 pm by Sharon Butler. Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson. Image at top: Ellen Lesperance; 1921, Anni Fleischmann Demonstrates Simultaneous Contrast Herself with the Help of a Knitted I-Cord Necklace; It Would Be a Year Before Even Meeting Josef Albers;. 2009; gouache and graphite on tea stained paper; 22 29 inches.]. Wendy Edwards, BOD.

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William Faulkner on discrepancies and contradictions - Two Coats of Paint

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Two Coats of Paint. NYC blogazine for painting, painting, and more painting. Published continuously since 2007. July 20, 2015. William Faulkner on discrepancies and contradictions. 12:42 am by Sharon Butler. As a guest at Yaddo. Published in 1959, William Faulkner’s final novel of a trilogy. That chronicles the life of a Mississippi family named Snopes. The book isn’t signed, and I can’t find evidence that Faulkner ever spent time here, but I appreciate his preface:. July 20, 2015. June 25, 2016. Nicely ...

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Ruth Root’s deep integration - Two Coats of Paint

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Two Coats of Paint. NYC blogazine for painting, painting, and more painting. Published continuously since 2007. July 25, 2015. Ruth Root’s deep integration. 2:49 pm by Sharon Butler. Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson. Ruth Root’s seven striking shaped canvases, on display at Andrew Kreps Gallery in Chelsea and all untitled, might recall Elizabeth Murray. S transcendent household paintings, Hermine Ford. Image at top: Ruth Root, Untitled,. Ruth Root, Untitled,. Ruth Root, Untitled,. The net result of R...

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Small work: Brett Baker @ Elizabeth Harris - Two Coats of Paint

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Two Coats of Paint. NYC blogazine for painting, painting, and more painting. Published continuously since 2007. February 20, 2015. Small work: Brett Baker @ Elizabeth Harris. 2:25 pm by Sharon Butler. In his statement Baker writes that. Baker succeeds. Through excessive reworking and overpainting, he manages to push each painting beyond generic abstraction to something more personal–an unusually earnest approach in an era when the look of effortlessness and a slapdash sensibility. February 20, 2015.

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Clint Jukkala: See and be seen - Two Coats of Paint

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Two Coats of Paint. NYC blogazine for painting, painting, and more painting. Published continuously since 2007. May 21, 2014. Clint Jukkala: See and be seen. 5:01 pm by Sharon Butler. Clint Jukkala is venturing away from the rectangular frames and window-like forms. That he has been making for the past few years. In his new paintings on view at BravinLee Programs, Jukkala incorporates a goofy figurative element that I first saw in his work at Volta last year. Image at top: Clint Jukkala, Telepath. Benign...

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Frank Stella's hard-edge sfumato - Two Coats of Paint

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Two Coats of Paint. NYC blogazine for painting, painting, and more painting. Published continuously since 2007. March 15, 2011. Frank Stella’s hard-edge sfumato. 5:18 pm by Sharon Butler. Frank Stella, “Gray Scrambled Double Square,” 1964, synthetic polymer paint on canvas. 8220;Gray Scrambled Double Square,” detail. When the image is enlarged, the pencil guides and hand-painted, imperfect quality of the lines. are evident. 8220;The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II,” installation view. A2a config.p...

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Arturo Herrera: Reading abstraction - Two Coats of Paint

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Two Coats of Paint. NYC blogazine for painting, painting, and more painting. Published continuously since 2007. August 13, 2015. Arturo Herrera: Reading abstraction. 12:18 pm by Sharon Butler. Few contemporary artists have a stronger urge to explore process and materiality than Arturo Herrera. Who is best known for his collages and large-scale drooping-felt abstractions. In “Opener 29: Arturo Herrera Day Before. Image at top: Arturo Herrera, Untitled. 2014, mixed media, 8 1/4 x 6 x 3/4 inches.]. Arturo H...

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Hermine Ford's enchantment - Two Coats of Paint

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Two Coats of Paint. NYC blogazine for painting, painting, and more painting. Published continuously since 2007. May 3, 2011. Hermine Ford’s enchantment. 2:56 pm by Sharon Butler. Hermine Ford, “In the Museum,” 2010, oil paint, ink, watercolor, gouache, pencil, and colored pencil on linen on shaped wood panel, 58.25 x 52.5 x .75″ oil paint, ink, watercolor, gouache, pencil, and colored pencil on linen on shaped wood panel. Shaken by 9/11, Hermine Ford. Hermine Ford, Untitled (113-030, 2001, ink on linen o...

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Weekend report: Casualism's heredity, visit to The Brooklyn Museum,Museum Hours, studio update - Two Coats of Paint

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Two Coats of Paint. NYC blogazine for painting, painting, and more painting. Published continuously since 2007. July 8, 2013. Weekend report: Casualisms heredity, visit to The Brooklyn Museum,Museum Hours, studio update. 10:45 am by Sharon Butler. On the brain. In his excellent review. Of “ Reinventing Abstraction. 1987, oil on linen, 76 x 100 inches. Courtesy of Cheim and Read)…. 8216;s Art in America. Of the recent Caroll Dunham show. That’s up through August 4, and I was pleased to find work by ...