The curatorial power team Cleopatra’s always have something to share, whether it’s new artwork in their Greenpoint gallery, a self-esteem salon at Socrates Sculpture Park, or the opening of their second gallery in Berlin. We thought they’d make a wonderful Guest Blogger for the Look section, so we invited them to do a post. Below are [...]
Category Archives: Painting
Lucien Freud
July 23, 2011 – 8:13 am
Lucien Freud died Wednesday at the age of 88. I saw his retrospective in Venice during the Biennale in 2005 and was so moved by the breadth of his work. I particularly love his early work, which is less lush than the nudes he is most known for, but feels more simple and straightforward. It [...]
Z Behl
July 2, 2011 – 10:29 am
Z Behl is a 25-year-old artist from New York working in Brooklyn. She makes drawings that wish they were paintings, paintings that wish they were sculptures, and most recently sculptures that wish they were people. This wooden army is her most recent installation, last seen at Bluxome Point in San Francisco.
Max Creasy
June 13, 2011 – 8:53 pm
Max Creasy is an Australian visual artist whose work combines photography, painting and sculpture to question the authority of photographic reality. His new work Reflections is being exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne, Australia from June 17 through August 7.
From top: Constructed Form (highlighter), Constructed Form (dish), Constructed Form (rock), Constructed Form (yoghurt container), [...]
Jonas Wood
May 19, 2011 – 8:22 pm
Jonas Wood has three paintings in the group show Greater L.A. which will be up until June 10 at 483 Broadway, 2nd floor.
Alex Massouras
April 13, 2011 – 2:35 pm
Alex Massouras is a London-based artist who has a solo show up at Skylight Projects in New York through May 2nd. The show is 18 drawings, each created using colored-pencil shavings. The paper used for each drawing comes from an old composition notebook found by the artist on the streets of Paris and all [...]
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
January 4, 2011 – 9:14 pm
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein was an outsider artist from Wisconsin who painted, sculpted and photographed in isolation while maintaining a day job as a baker. His visionary paintings were often painted with his fingers, or brushes made from the hair of his wife and muse Marie. She also served as the lone subject of his photographs [...]
Nick Oberthaler
December 6, 2010 – 10:36 pm
I recently discovered the work of Austrian artist Nick Oberthaler, and in my search, came across an interview with him in Flash Art, where he quotes Catullus. This only amplified my growing appreciation for his sensibility. “Suns come and go, but when our light expires, we have to sleep an eternal night.”
Sylvia Sleigh
November 1, 2010 – 10:37 am
Portrait Painter Sylvia Sleigh passed away this past week at the age of 94. Involved with the feminist art movement in the 70’s, Sylvia strived to portray the equality of both sexes and celebrate their sexuality as subjects rather than objects.
