I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It is a loss from which we suffer, and this pathos motivates modern painting and poetry…
William J. Simmons: Tell me about your shows in Dallas and New York City. What direction is your new work taking? David Salle: The show in Dallas brings together paintings from the last five years or so that, for the…
“Information is never innocent. Its toxicity depends on who is consuming—and who is consumed.” from “Material Witness” by David Joselit, Artforum, February 2015 During the October 14th episode of his radio program On Point, Tom…
The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University is known for delivering powerful exhibitions rooted in contemporary thought and academic pursuit. Rose Art Projects, their new series of curatorial ventures, is a series of projects, each consisting of three separate exhibitions,…
The work of Henry Darger made its grand-scale public debut in 1997 at the American Folk Art Museum. Almost immediately, his phantasmagoric landscapes, populated by pre-adolescent girls with male genitalia, gave rise to a new breed of narrative artists like…
Last month’s New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 was a massive affair, crammed with publishers and new artist projects and an incredible number of visitors. In one of the small side galleries, or “project rooms” on the museum’s…
1. Lights are coming on everywhere you look tonight. The flickering shutter of cameras announce (whisper) everybody already knew how to take photographs of television screens before you even thought to change. Women stand in something greater than the misunderstanding…
Debra K. Jayne received an MFA in 2014 with a focus in painting and printmaking from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. She lives in Boston and Hanover, NH. Our contributing editor William J. Simmons…
Welcome back to Studio Sessions, this time with guest Helena Hsieh. Helena earned a BA from UCLA in 2004, a BFA in 2008 from the San Francisco Art Institute, and an MFA in 2012 from the School of the Museum…
For many years I have been wrestling with the lack of forward momentum in the critical dialogue surrounding Painting.1 A condition that is somewhat unique to the discipline, since other media or métier2 have successfully evolved beyond the dated confines…
Smart Painting at New Haven’s ArtSpace is artist John O’Donell’s curatorial debut. It’s interesting to see an installation artist put a show together, because of the fluency in the use of space and the strong influence of the artist’s personal…
I spent the latter half of my childhood in a small town in eastern Connecticut. Once it had been strictly rural, but by the latter half of the twentieth-century was slowly succumbing to the inevitable creep of suburbia. For the…
Cullen Washington Jr.’s enigmatic large scale paintings, constructions and prints amply fill half of the cavernous space at the 808 Gallery (the other half is given over to a group show comprising mixed media works and performance). Washington Jr.’s paintings…
I have a problem with the stigma that is attached to the making of a mistake in our culture as a whole. In art school, students present their work, and their peers and teachers discuss if the piece is successful…
Sometimes, after leaving a show, I feel a tinge of regret in the pit of my stomach. The regret stems from the feeling that there was only so much I was able to grasp of the work; that there’s more…
“Athabasca is an ice field,” the artist Mira Cantor explains. ” Water flows down from the field in both eastern and western directions, eventually ending up in both oceans.”1 In the painting Athabasca (2012) a strong gestural stroke bisects…
In a recent conversation with Amy Sillman at the opening of Leidy Churchman’s provocative solo show, Lazy River, at the Boston University Art Gallery, I asked Sillman about the state of painting. In 2011, Artforum considered the “The Ab-Ex Effect,”…
Welcome back to Studio Sessions with my guest this episode, Russell Nachman. Russell earned his BFA from Colorado State University in 1990, and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996. In recent years, Russell’s focus has been…
Welcome to the newest episode of Studio Sessions with guest Devon Clapp. Devon earned a BFA in Printmaking from the Montserrat College of Art in 2006, and an MFA in Painting from the Pratt Institute in New York in 2011.…
It’s hard to believe, but Amy Sillman: one lump or two, opening today at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, is Sillman’s first museum survey show. Comprising over 90 of Sillman’s paintings, drawings, ‘zines and films, one lump or two resists…