Indexed Posts 2021-2006
Although time does not permit me to physically migrate every post from the archived blogs to here, this organized index will allow you to access all the posts with a click. If the past few years seem sparse, that's because in 2020 I did so many Pandemic Posts, which have their own section. And my online curatorial project, Italianità, took up the early part of 2021. Plus there's that full-time job I have—painting. I posted about recent solos here and here. In 2019 I worked on Mothers on Invention, which has its own section, and published my memoir, Vita. But scroll down. There's a lot to read.
Martin Puryear at MoMA, 2007
Color, Materiality, Geometry
2021
. As Winter Wanes, Color Blooms Roundup of a range of work with color as the unifying element
2020
. The Glorious RGB Online curation of chromatic work
2018
. Five Shows in Chelsea Nozkowski, Plagens, Freeman, Moyer, Baker
. Looking Sharp Odili Odita, Blyton, Zarate, Hill, Schiliro, Behnke, Naves, Judge
. Maximal and Minimal Nobui Fukui and Francois Morellet
2017
. Hybrid Form at Thatcher Projects Badur, Chacon, Chandra, Finklea, Larsen, Roth, Mattera
. Balm and Spark Katherine Bradford, Steven Alexander, Emil Lukas, Ken Weathersby
. More Balm, More Spark Grabner, Bottwin, Bolt, Langley, Mason, Lutz, Spergel, Walsh, Grassi, Glessner, Parisi, BUmiller, Fayer, Sheinkman, Schwalb
. Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) Jeffrey Cortland Jones's traveling project
. Soft Shapes, Sharp Angles Frecon, Suzuki, Smith, Pozzi, Uchiyama, Wethli, Grubin, Karolak, Sloane, Spector, Evertz, Binion, Dowell, Kalina, Biggers, Reinhardt
. Shape, Gesture, Surface Wayne, Murray Fishman, Krasner, Berger, Belag, Humphries
. Blanc et Noir Blum, Chase-Riboud, Bland, Serra, Cortland Jones
. Eccentric Domesticity Three shows: Modern Domestics, Domestic Disturbances, Roots of The Dinner Party
. Stitched, Stapled, Tacked Pindell, Letscher, Natale, Lou
. An Afternoon in Bushwick Goodman, Bellinger, Bjork, Brown, Colormania at Odetta
. Material Pleasure Chase-Riboud, Bland, Tianmiao, Apfelbaum, Soares, Semmes, D'Arrigo, Asawa, Oppenheim, Ravtiz, Smith, Biggers, Lyon, Bourgeois, Arte Povera artists
2016
. The Illusive Eye, Part 1 Spectacular optical geometry at El Museo del Barrio . . .
. The Illusive Eye, Part 2 . . . in two parts
. A Visit to the Outer Cape Butler, Horvath, and Miranda at Castle Hill; Lipton and Vevers at Albert Merola; Lutz at Schoolhouse
. Buddha in the Berkshires At the Berkshire Museum
. The Encaustic Conference and Art in Provincetown
. Room 83 Spring An artist-curated project in Watertown, Mass.
. Nancy White at Steven Zevitas
. Nancy Natale and Marybeth Rothman on Newbury Street
. The Presence of Harmonies at the Peabody Essex Museum Anila Quayyum Agha
. A Few Days on Cape Cod Sarah Hinckley at The Cape Cod Museum of Art; the Provincetown galleries
. Chromatic Space American Abstract Artists show Downtown, curated by Jonathan Lippincott
. The Onward of Art American Abstract Artists show in Midtown, curated by Karen Wilkin
2015
. September's Bounty: Color, Surface, Gesture Maine, Nelson, Christensen, Ferris, McCarthy
. Systems that Dazzle Gabriele Evertz at Minus Space and hard-edge abstraction at D. Wigmore
. August Geometry at Marcia Wood Gallery Gallery and invited artists
. Washington Color in Chelsea Davis, Reed, Thomas, Noland, Gilliam, Louis, Downing
. Going Big on the Lower East Side Suzan Shutan and Susan Carr invited 111 of their closest friends to show together
2014
. Color as Structure at McKenzie Fine Art Gallery and invited artists
. Centering Mangold, Dowell, Bisbee and others
. Summer Solo: Helen Miranda Wilson
. Not So Subtle Kara Walker's Big Sugar Mammy in the old Domino factory in Brooklyn
. To Leo: A Tribute from American Abstract Artists The long-running artists' group honors one of its founders in an exhibition at Sideshow in Brooklyn
2013
. Orly Genger: Full Enclosure Installation in Madison Square Park
. Swept Away at the Cape Cod Museum of Art
. Painting in Chelsea Wynne Reeves, Antonakos, Held, Weinstein, Kelly, Lewis, Urso, Sprecher, Witmer, Baker, Smith, Poons
. Canvasing the Neighborhood Giorgio Griffa and Sharon Butler
2012
. Building Geometry Alexander, Isensee, Johanson, Maychak
. Josef Albers Painting on Paper at the Morgan Library
. Color: Field and Form, Part 1 Anne Truitt, Anne Appleby, Julian Jackson
. Color: Field and Form, Part 2 Estrada-Vega,Johnston, Korman, Gimblett
. Color: Field and Form, Part 3 Rolling in the Deep at Kenise Barnes Fine Art
. Color: Field and Form, Part 4 Charlene von Heyl
. Color: Field and Form, Part 5 Guy Goodwin
. Color: Field and Form, Part 7 Sheila Hicks and Fabienne Lasserre
. Color: Field and Form, Part 8 Lisa Hoke and Martin Klein
. Color: Field and Form, Part 9 Art in Provincetown and Truro
. Color: Field and Form, Part 10 The Hudson Valley: Fishman, Goodman, Natale, Azara, Bjork
. Color: Field and Form, Part 11 Fran Shalom, Debra Ramsay, Martha Clippinger
. Color: Field and Form, Part 12 Bednarek, Oppermann, Waskiewicz
. Super Saturated: Pigment and Pattern Curated by Kenise Barnes for Schweinfurth Art Center
. Kevin Finklea: Active Equipoise
. A Tour of Lush Geometry at DM Contemporary
. Joanne Freeman: Calligraphic Blue
. Some Sculpture Esther Klas, Rachel Beach, Vincent Fecteau, Arlene Shechet
. Making Room in New Haven Suzan Shutan's curatorial effort with Melanie Carr, Kevin Daly, Robert Gregson, Adam Lister, Faber Lorne, Debra Ramsay, Karen Schifano, Paul Theriault, Jill Vasileff
2011
. The Big Woozy Serra sculptures
. Geometry: Old School, New School Frederick Hammersley, Ann Pibal
. Beautiful Violence A stellar Lucio Fontana in copper
. The Shadow Knows Regina Silveira's window installation at Alexander Gray in CHelsea
. Melissa Meyer: New Paintings and Watercolors
. Optic Nerve Douglas Melini, Gary Petersen, and Sarah Walker
. News of the World David Byrne, Ingo Gunther, Nick Cave
. Not About Paint at Zevitas, Boston Braman, Ryman, Da Corte, Hyde, Hubbard, Stockholder
. Jennifer Riley and Nancy Natale in Boston
. Gwyneth Leach: Arrangement in Gray and Cups
. Pinheads: Tara Donovan and Alyson Schotz
. Red with a Black and White Chaser Newman, Reinhardt, Rothko, Nevelson, Leslie
. It's a Plane, Part 1 Group show, Plane Speaking, at McKenzie Fine Art
. It's a Plane, Part 2 Steven Alexander and Taro Suzuki at Heidi Cho; Sven Lukin at Gary Snyder
. It's a Plane, Part 3 Held, Stezaker, Park, Bottwin, Overton, Dudley, Busch
2010
. Seeing the Light Dan Flavin
. Big Bang Joy Garnett
. Family Ties Ryman, Stella Gee's Bend, Stark, WEstfal, Dowell, Anuszkiewicz
. Joan Snyder: A Year in Painting
. Entanglements Pfaff, Steinkamp, Calame
. Lines and Curves Kim Uchiyama, Suzan Frecon
. Petite Sizes Only: Charles LeDray at Boston's ICA
. Central Time The spiral with DeGennaro, Cambronne, Milhazes, Mattera, McQuillan, Azara
. Line and Space Suzanne Ulrich, Joel Shapiro
. Seeing Red: The Play The Broadway play about Mark Rothko
. Seeing Red: The Dress Marina at MoMA
. Seeing Red: Some Paintings Frecon, Wiley, Qadri,Holzman, Anuszkiewicz
. Big Geometries Isensee, Halley
. Small Geometries Finklea, Wilson
. Geometric Themes and Variations Gloria Klein's curated group show at Gallery 128
. Three Sculptors Azara, Dodson, Rydingsvard
. Get Your Retinas in Shape Kuttner, Sprecher, Isserman
. Out of the Blue My digital print series
. Color Forms, Part 1 Bottwin, Whitney, Newell, Langley, Martin, Klauber
. Color Forms, Part 2 Richter, Parlato, Tanner, Ayott, Magnanti
. Atmospheric Flavin, Wheeler, Alexander, Pashgian, Kauffman, Bell, Berkowitz, Jackson, Frankenthaler
2009
. Five Shows in Chicago Tileston, Waterloo, Karaabenick, Cook, Blum
. A First Look and a Last Chance Shows at DM Contemporary and Metaphor Contemporary
. Branching Out at the Met Roxy Paine on the Roof
. Big Trees, Little Branches Sandra Allen at Carroll and Sons in Boston; Paine at James Cohan
. Stripes/Solids Group show at Paula Cooper
. Color-Time-Space Joanne Freeman and Kim Uchiyama's curated show at Lohin Geduld
. Sculpture Roundup in Chelsea Plensa, Warren, Stein, Cutler, Fecteau. Graves, Yoder, Reyle
. Maya Lin: Three Ways of Looking at the Earth
. Water, Water Everywhere Bjork, Heidenheimer
. The L'eau Down Paparazzi pics from Metaphor’s Slippery When Wet
. What I Saw THis Summer: Montreal Betty Goodwin, Spring Hurlburt, Robert Polidor at le Musee d’art Contemporain; Michal Rovner at DHC Art
. What I Saw This Summer: More Paintings DannielleTegeder; A.I.R.’s postcard show, Wish You Were Here
. What I Saw This Summer: Paintings Rose Olson, Jacqueline Ott in Boston; Kate Beck in Maine
. Helen Miranda Wilson at Victoria Munroe in Boston
. Darra Keeton and David Headley at Drawer 158 in Tribeca
. (Un) Common Threads, Part 1 Schnitger, Sharrett, Lou, Shalala
. (Un) Common Threads, Part 2 Group show, By a Thread, at Elizabeth Harris Gallery
. Douglas Witmer and Carrie Patterson at The Painting Center
. Don Voisine at McKenzie Fine Art
. James LIttle at the June Kelly Gallery
. Marcia Hafif at Larry Becker, Philadelphia
. Paper: Pressed, Stained, Folded, Slashed at MoMA, Part 1
. Paper: Pressed, Stained, Folded, Slashed at MoMA, Part 2
. Milhazes in the Window Beatriz at James Coham
. Louise Fishman at Cheim and Read
. Thornton WIllis at Elizabeth Harris
. Ellsworth Kelly at Matthew Marks
. SoHo Geo Navarra at OK Harris; Whitney Rhodes, and Einarsson at Team
. Fred Sandback at David Zwirner
. Grids and Lattices Heilmann, Irwin, Rossmarin, Willis, Knoebel and more
. Five Artists, One Film: Our City of Dreams Swoon, Amer, Abramovic, Smith, Spero
2008
. Beatriz Milhazes and Tomma Abts
. Geometry Westrfall, Zox, Wixted, Gallagher
. Joanna Pousette-Dart and Ron Gorchov
. Mary Heilmann at the New Museum
. Cubes Squared Jackie Winsor and Tara Donovan
. Material Color Mary Birmingham's splendid group show at the Hunterdon Art Museum
. Vibrational Geometry Optical paintings at D. Wigmore Fine Art
. Acute Conditions, Part 1 Shar-edged abstraction from Butler, Freeman, White
. Acute Conditions, Part 2 Willis, Heilmann, Dincan, Coates
. Calculated Color on Cape Cod Jane Lincoln's splendid curated show
. Homage to the Square El Lissitzky, Albers, Kelly, Heilmann
. Geo/Metric at MoMA, Part 1 Curators Starr Figura and Kathleen Curry assembled . . .
. Geo/Metrics at MoMA, Part 2 . . . a stellar show from the museum's collection
. Gee-Oh!-Graphic Colorized Landsat photos
. A Wall Awash in Color My own
. Awash in Color: Roy G. Biv and Friends Color globes, color wheels, color paintings
. Awash in Color: More Friends of Mr. Biv Karabernick, Hafif, Ashley, Tallman, Gusky, Ray
. Your Turn: Color, Geometry, and More Petersen, Lake, Weathersby, Garcia-Fenech, others
. Awash in Color: No Chromophobia OK Harris goes totally chromatic in show curated by Rick Witter and Suzanne Kreps
. Awash in Color: Carlos Estrada-Vega and Olaf Nicolai
. Awash in Color at Metaphor Contemporary Everetz, Neill, Gross, Terhune
. Sotto Voce Monochrome paintings from Fontana, Soulanges, Wool, Schwalb
. Painting ans Process, 30 Years Apart Larry Poons and Carolanna Parlato
. El Anatsui at Jack Shainman With some interesting connections
. On the Geometric Trail : Chelsea Riley, Gregg, Cohen, Burri
. On the Geonmetric Trail SoHo Kay WalkingStick, Machine Learning at the Painting Center
. On the Geometric Trail: Warren Isensee
. On the Geometric Trail: Two of a Kind Lewitt, Larsen
. On the Geometric Trail: Geometric Abstraction at McKenzie Fine Art
2007
. Paths Real and Imagined Nancy Azara's marvelous curatorial effort on the grounds of Byrdcliffe Art Center in Woodstock
. Dumpster Diving: Portia Munson
. 27th Street Up Close The Chelsea of then is not the Chelsea of now
. Chelsea's Skeleton Crew That moment when it was all about skulls and bones
. Serra on the Surface: Looking at Sculpture with a Painter's Eye
. Serra and Stella: Big Boys in Big Spaces At MoMA and the Met, respectively
2006
. Luminous Depths Group show at the Ben Shahn Galleries of Wm. Paterson University, curated by Nancy Einreinhofer
Black and White
. 2016: Black and White Meyer, Zinn, Kelly, de Oude, Ryman
. 2015: Summer Nocturne Di Donna, Natale, Voisine
. 2015: And Other Poems Toby Sisson
. 2013: A Whiter Shade of Pale Nan, Field, Bartley, Glessner, Clary, Mattera at Kenise Barnes
. 2012: Hold the Color Roseman, Furunes, Duffin, Goldman, Evangeline, Burr, Natale and others
. 2012: Vivian Maier Work from the then-newly discovered photographer
Transcendence
. 2020: Agnes Pelton, Emil Bisttram, and Raymond Jonson
. 2012: Transcendence Times Two Lori Ellison and Tantric paintings
. 2011: Graces Received Italian ex votos at the Calandra Institute
. 2010: Tantric Paintings
. 2009: The Red Book Jung's fabled volume
One-offs I Love
. 2017: Inventing Downtown The early artist-run galleries
. 2017: What an Artist Looks Like Kerry James Marshall; Velasquez's Juan de Pareja at the Met
. 2017: "This work is by an artist from a nation whose citizens are being denied entry into the United States" A powerful statement at MoMA
. 2015: Peculiar Realist Giorgio Morandi at the Center for Italian Modern Art in SoHo
. 2009: Stephen Haller: Remembering Morandi The esteemed gallerist recalls his friendship with the iconic painter
. 2009: Getting High in West Chelsea The Opening of the first section of The High Line
. Soggiorno a Napoli Part travelog, part love letter
. In the Bay of Naples: Ischia and Procida
A 2010 Project: Marcia Wood gathered her gallery artists to produce a series called "Pull"
Studio Visits
. 2010: Karen Schifano
. 2010: Gloria Klein
. 2009: Grace DeGennaro in Maine; Richard Bottwin, Sharon Butler in Brooklyn
. 2009: Yechel Gagnon and Alexandre Masino in Montreal
. 2009: Mary Barnes' Alfresco Day Lily Studio in Salem, New York
. 2009: Robert Nunnelley and Gerald Cobles' Art and Life in Battenville, New York
Rants
. 2010: My First Blog Award It's not what you think
. 2009: Holland Cotter: "It's day-job time in America, and that's OK" No, it's not OK
. 2009: Where's the Bailout for the Arts? The pandemic showed us just how much things haven't changed. (One bit of good news, though: This time self-employed artists qualified for unemployment)
. 2008: The NEA Does a Study About Artists Surprise: We're poor, women are underrepresented
. 2008: Color with a Y Chromosome A lot of color at MoMA, not too many women included
. 2008: The Downturn in Chelsea More observation than rant
. 2008: Signs of Testosterone Poisoning, Exhibit A When a curator says, "Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness."
. 2007: An Offer I Can Refuse Getting trolled by a pay-to-play gallery
. 2007: Bax-ploitation The story of a three-day delivery that was anything but
. 2006: I am Not an 'Encaustic Artist' Define me by my work, not my medium. Jeez.
Sonnets and Missives from Cyberspace
I saved the best for last. Spam filters don't let most of this stuff in anymore, but being a waste-not-want-not kind of person, back then I put it to good use.
. 2013: Sexy Russian Ladies
. 2010: Gold Dust. Miss Monalisa Wuko. I've Got Mail!
. 2007: The Penis Monologues