Curating Contemporary

Previous Shows: 2013: What I Like About You: What I Like About You

  • I first met Lael's work first through the social media, and was lucky enough to be invited for a studio visit while in NY last summer. I chose to show with her because, while she is much freer in her approach to her work in terms of her choice of materials than I am, I feel close to, and touched by, the way in which she is attentive to the sometimes minimal shifts, of form, line or color, that create poetry and humor.
  • Spiders webs, TV's, stars and headlights infuse Samelson's work, connecting looser painterly areas together with thin scrawls of enamel...... A feel of lo-fi B movie posters without the text.... are we observing from above or are these works hovering overhead..... Playfully sinister.
  • I chose Frank Holliday as my invited artist because he’s a great painter, and a friend of over twenty years standing. It’s always a pleasure and a privilege to show with him.
  • I was lucky enough to wander into Patricia's studio during last year's BOS. I was immediately smitten with her work. To me Patricia's work is a methodical reduction of time and space. Her paintings show a masterful control of both subject and medium.
  • Jamie Powell currently teaches at Pratt Institute. I selected her as my Bushwick partner artists because I feel a direct joy in her work.
  • What I find compelling about Yadir's work is how the minimalist style interacts with his use of residual forms and the obvious use of the artist's hand.
  • I find Sharon Butler's deconstructed paintings to be energizing and inspiring. The juxtaposition of raw-the rough edges of unraveling canvas- and finished-areas of pure color and straight edges- was a lightening bolt to my messy painting way of being.
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  • As a painter I find Katherine Bradford's restlessness admirable-- one can take a walk around these works and be thrown at intervals back into a state of recalculation. Here are some dots and here is Amelia Earhart, just like life.
  • I found this text piece of EJ's particularly haunting. Navigating a read through the words is in itself a staggering, interrupting process. The carefully made G's, and there are 3 of them, took on the shape of stop signs and I found myself hung up on them. When I got to LOANS it came out slow and guttural. With the g's still in my mouth, it made me think: GROANS. It kept giving me a lump in my throat. I'm struck by how directly the painting lead me to connect the impact of loss with the impairment of speech. My painting, Long Lost Letters, is also named for loss, diminished language and a lump in the throat.
  • Feels like Clinton is walking a similar path, sad and hopeful and full of wonder.
  • Rodneys paintings have gravity. They are fierce, physical, compelling paintings that emit a palpable light.
  • Besides making great paintings and drawings and experimenting constantly he can also provide the best place to wipe your feet I have ever seen. Whats not to like about Chris Moss.
  • Meg and I worked together at the Vermont Studio Center in the mid-90’s and I feel very fortunate that we have stayed in touch -- I’ve always felt a strong connection to her use of color, pattern and line
  • I first noticed Michael's work on a visit to the Riverside Art Museum in California. I really liked how the paintings were able to achieve such a strong presence given the reduced palette and subtle figure/ground relationships at work.
  • The ease of his handshake, the slight drawl in his voice, his clear eyes and slow, precise phrasing. Paul is warm, bright, studied without pretense. He is welcoming, familiar upon first introduction and rich with insight and context. His paintings do not belie his being.
  • Ky draws great lines. I admire the fact that she seems to make choices rather than calculated decisions. Her work reflects a confidence of craft that can only come from years of hot pursuit.
  • peaks and valleys of spectral gleedancing and spinning, floating so freeplayfully singing unpretentiouslyopaque, transparent, warm melodysuch is your work which speaks to me
  • What i like about the piece of Tatiana Berg is that it is a painting and an object as well. It is a painted spacious precense on the wall.
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  • Current Exhibition: Room WIth A View
    • Essay
    • Aubrey Levinthal
    • Dustin Metz
    • Kelly McRaven
    • Jason Mones
    • George Rush
    • Emil Robinson
    • Jennifer Packer
    • Catherine Haggarty
  • Previous Shows
    • 2017
      • Overlaid and Underpinned, curated by Anthony Falcetta
        • Essay: Overlaid & Underpinned
        • Paolo Arao
        • Anthony Falcetta
        • Tim Hallinan
        • Vanessa Irzyk
        • Kevin Lucey
        • Samnang Riebe
      • Aporia (curated by Mary DeVincentis Herzog
        • Peter Burns
        • Frankie Gardiner
        • Brenda Goodman
        • Kerry Law
        • Danny Licul
        • Denise Sfraga
        • John Smiddy
        • Aporia Exhibition Statement
        • Curator: Mary DeVincentis
      • LOUDER THAN BOMBS (curated by Douglas Witmer)
        • LOUDER THAN BOMBS
        • Curator: Doug Witmer
    • 2016
      • Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) .v2
        • Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) .v2
        • Artists
      • Steve Gibson
        • Steve Gibson
        • Interview
      • Making a World: Mud Castles and Strange Wild Places
        • Susan Carr
        • An Interview
      • Open Pomegranate
        • Thibaud Thiercelin
        • Melanie Parke
        • Mary DeVincentis
        • Farrell Brickhouse
        • Katelyn Eichwald
        • Shaun Ellison
        • Richard Kooyman
        • Elaine Mari
        • Sarah Nesbit
        • Kyle Staver
        • Essay
    • 2015
      • The Player's Dinner
        • Intro
        • Essay
        • Curator
        • David Humphrey
        • Joshua Bienko
        • Katherine Bradford
        • Caroline Chandler Wells
        • Jaqueline Cedar
        • Rebecca Morgan
        • Matt Bolinger
        • Vicki Sher
        • Lauren Whearty
        • Andry Cross
        • Austin Furtake Cole
        • Paul Gagner
        • Summer Wheat
      • We Play So Hard At Being Human
        • Introduction
        • Sarah Granett
        • Ahna Serendren
        • Maria Theresa Barbist
        • Cassidy Garbutt
        • About the Artist
        • Curator
      • Decisons curated by Polly Shindler
      • Search Party
        • Essay: Search Party
        • Jennnifer Turnage
        • Seren Moran
        • Ruth Freeman
        • Curator: Kimberly Rowe
      • The Julies and Julia Show
        • Julie Alexander
        • Julie Torres
        • Julie Alpert
        • Julia Freeman
      • Significant Details
        • Aryia Martin
        • Christy Singleton
        • Valerie Corradetti
        • Jenny Fine
        • JooYoung Choi
        • Nina Schwanse
      • Chill, Zen, Funk, & Twang
        • Introduction: C,Z,F & T
        • Chill, Zen, Funk & Twang I
          • Ian White Williams
          • Gabriel Luis Perez
          • Jessica Simorte
          • Paul Nagle
          • William Lawer
          • Lyle Carbajal
          • Tom Duimtra
          • David Myrvold
          • Lori Ott
          • Jason Rohlf
        • Chill, Zen, Funk & Twang II
          • David Pollack
          • Melissa Jean Gibson
          • James Lambert
          • Rosaire Appel
          • Brian Edmonds
          • Max Manning
          • Nick DePirro
          • Stephen B. Macinnis
          • Adams Puryear
          • Julie Alexander
        • Chill, Zen, Funk, & Twang III
          • Helen O' Leary
          • John McKie
          • Julon Pinkston
          • Ludovic Dervillez
          • Cyndy Goldman
          • Mandy Lyn Ford
          • James Prez
          • Julie Torres
          • Tim Schwartz
          • David T Miller
    • 2014
      • Soft Eyes
        • Statement
        • Katy Fischer
        • John Dilg
        • Richard Rezac
        • Travis Head
        • Leah Raintree
        • Andy Moon Wilson
        • Douglas Degges
        • Julia Fish
        • Scott Ingram
        • Hamlett Dobbins
        • Amy Pleasant
      • Viewing Surface
        • Joy Curtis
        • Meg Lipke
        • Mike Olin
        • Carolyn Salas
        • Curator: Sophia Alexandrov
        • Curatorial Statement
      • By Pleasure of Doing
        • Alex Paik
        • Brian Edmonds
        • Emre Kocagil
        • Ernesto Canovas
        • Gracjana Rejmer
        • Ivelisse Jimenez
        • Jessica Simorte
        • Juan Alberto Negroni
        • Lauri Hopkins
        • Max Manning
        • Nayda Collazo-Llorens
        • Nora Maite Nieves
        • Pedro Fortunato-Velasquez
        • Sebastian Vallejo
        • Roberto Marquez
        • Video
        • Installation Views
        • Essay
      • One Plus One is One
        • Statement
      • “Mind’s Eye (or, Ten Ways to Float)”
        • Introduction
        • Andrea Belag
        • Emily Berger
        • Rick Briggs
        • Denise Gale
        • Elizabeth Gilflen
        • Zachary Keeting
        • Victor Kord
        • Paul Pagk
        • Anne Russinof
        • Susan Wanklyn
      • Image After
        • Image After
        • Curated by Talia Shulze
      • Run Into Yourself
        • Alan Van Every
        • Fran O'Neill
        • HK Zamani
        • Jasmine Justice
        • Patrick Fitzgerald
        • Sangram Majumdar
      • Fresh as Form
        • Essay
        • Aubrey Levinthal
        • Virva Hinnemo
        • Lauren Garvey
        • Judith Farr
        • Derrick Quevedo
        • Melanie Parke
      • The Thing of It is
        • Peter Shear
        • Ben Pritchard
        • Steve Gibson
        • John Mills
        • Richard Hull
        • Carlson Hatton
        • The Thing of It Is. (Essay)
      • Remote Viewing
        • Essay
        • Charles Ladson
        • Emil Robinson
        • Hanneline Røgeberg
        • Kim Dorland
        • Mira Gerard
        • Sara-Vide Ericson
        • Minna Komi
      • See Us Roar
        • Essay
        • Ruth Freeman
        • Ellie Fritz
        • Maya Kabat
        • Danielle Gheradi
        • Laura Viola Preciado
        • Kimberly Rowe
        • Alison Woods
    • 2013
      • Order Manifest
        • Dale McNeil
        • Essay
        • About the Artist
        • About the Curator
      • Fine Time: You've Got Love Technique
        • Alexander Kroll
        • Benjamin Gardner
        • Bret Slater
        • Geoffrey Todd Smith
        • Jason Karolak
        • Michael Wille
        • Curator: Jeffrey Cortland Jones
      • Above the elbow and up to the neck
        • Jason Stopa
        • Joshua Aster
        • Lia Lowenthal
        • Curator - Jaqueline Cedar
        • Essay
      • States of Being
        • Jennifer Wynne Reeves
        • David Mc Donald
        • Sabine Tress
        • Julie Torres
        • Valerie Brennan
        • Lucy Mink Covello
        • Mira Gerard
        • Rebecca Campbell
        • Julia Schwartz
        • Essay
      • What I Like About You
        • What I Like About You
      • Tune In, Paint Out
        • Tune In, Paint Out (Essay)
        • John Fields
        • Anoka Faruqee
        • Florian Heinke
        • Scott Stack
        • Brian Bishop
      • Untitled curated by TJ Donovan
      • Shock the Monkey
      • Repetition, Rhythm, and Pattern.
        • Alex Paik
        • Anna E. Mikolay
        • Brian Giniewski
        • Corey Escoto
        • Crystal Gregory
        • Helen O’Leary
        • Kate McGraw
        • Kim Beck
        • Lilly Zuckerman
        • Megan Cotts
        • Curator: Lindsey Landfried
      • Meta Vista
        • Meta Vista
          • Rachel Beach
          • Paul Behnke
          • Vincent Como
          • Matthew Neil Gehring
          • Beth Gilfilen
          • Jason Karolak
          • Joan Mellon
          • Rebecca Murtaugh
          • Kirk Stoller
      • Emptiness is Form
        • Don Voisine
        • Karen Schifano
        • Myron Stout
        • Linda Francis
        • Curator: Jason Stopa
        • Curatorial Statement
    • 2012
      • ALLTOGETHERNOW
        • Brian Cypher
        • Brian Edmonds
        • David T Miller
        • Ian Williams
        • Inga Dalrymple
        • Julie Alexander
        • Julie Torres
        • Justine Frischmann
        • Peter Shear
        • Stephen Wright
        • Vincent Hawkins
        • Yifat Gat
      • Materials and Methods
        • Lael Marshall
        • Elizabeth Sheppell
        • Terry Greene
        • Brian Cypher
      • Obsessive Aesthetics
        • Lindsey Landfried
        • Peter Gordon
        • Leslie Shellow
        • Annie Boyden Varnot
        • Curator:Allison Long Hardy
      • YOU WERE HERE
        • YOU WERE HERE
        • PART 1
        • PART 2
        • PART 3
        • PART 4
        • PART 5
      • Focused Field
        • Focused Field
        • Essay
        • Altoon Sultan
        • Dan Roach
        • Kazimira Rachfal
        • Henry Samelson
        • Ken Weathersby
        • Sarah McNulty
        • Brett Baker
      • A Dialogue in Abstraction
        • A Dialogue in Abstraction
        • Room 1
        • Room 2
        • Room 3
        • Room 4
        • Paul Behnke
        • Sabine Tress
        • Michael Voss
        • Ky Anderson
        • Valerie Brennan
        • Clayton Colvin
        • Patricia Satterlee
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