The exhibition is a stunner, mostly because it’s DeFeo’s unremitting investigatory impulse and deft handling of (sometimes-) antagonistic media — rather than the handful of forms and objects that became both cast and crew in her work — that’s really the subject here. Jay DeFeo, “Untitled (White Spica),” 1973 Gelatin silver print 8 3/4 x […]

Like we said in Part II of our Annual Recap, what stayed with us most from 2013 was mostly small and mostly quiet, meditative works that brought us back to the pleasures of long looking. Here’s a shortlist of the galleries and museums we felt did right by riding the counter-current, giving us intimately scaled […]

Since then, I feel less and less the need for words to accompany the process of my work, and more engaged with how the unconscious functions without them. Despite the endless number of words, descriptions and characters it carries along the way, the experience it left me with was quite the opposite—a new freedom to […]

Def Louise Nevelson ‘Untitled.’ 1981. © Louise Nevelson Foundation, courtesy Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York. Remnants: Louise Nevelson & Aaron Siskind 19 September – 2 November ’13 Bruce Silverstein 535 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011 212.627.3930 Thirty-two works by Nevelson and Siskind, most of them from early in the artists’ careers, are now […]

“Once a book is written, I feel that I have said what I had to say… So I decide that it might be best for me to do something else. Lately, this “something else” has been the making of collages…which now seems to have become a fixed daily activity, and one that I have no […]