Kate Brock interviews artist Jane Irish days before new exhibition Eureka: New Works by Jane Irish opening at Locks Gallery. They speak about Vietnam War Veterans Against War, Edgar Allen Poe, and Artist’s roles for the future. Read the interview then see the exhibition and share what you think with us!
Read MoreKate Brock reviews the exhibition “The Highwaymen: Fast Painting the American Dream.” The exhibition includes works made by a group of 26 Black painters who came together to form the collective called The Highwaymen in the Jim Crow Florida.
Read MoreOur reviewer Kate Brock says Carlisle Bell’s paintings in “Memory Be Green” showcase “a deft use of material from modernist painting within a practice of impressive range.”
Read MoreKate Brock reviews “House and Travels,” paintings by Dona Nelson, Emily Davidson and Zachary Rawe. Though each artist’s painting style and subject matter is distinct, their handling of color and paint reveals their connection: Davidson and Rawe both studied under Nelson at Tyler School of Art, and they all share an interest in breaking down the hidebound categories of “abstraction” and “representation.” Organized by the artists themselves, Kate Brock says this is a “stubborn, delightful group of paintings,” on view at Atelier Art Gallery through April 15th.
Read MoreKate Brock says this rich and complex tpairing of shows at Arcadia invites “dialogue around intergenerational, artistic exchange.” Polly Apfelbaum- maybe best known for her hand-dyed, velvet “fallen paintings”- is is an artist who shows widely; David Ellinger, who was born 42 years before Apfelbaum, was a painter of some renown, of Dutch-German-influenced scenes. He was also an antiquarian and a ‘female impersonator.’ The show, and its documentary materials about Ellinger’s life, explores the intersection of two artists of different generations who never met but whose work seems to be in dialogue.
Read MoreKate Brock has a close encounter with Sarah Gamble’s paintings and drawings, works that Brock says are in the lineage of the “spiritual-abstract” of Hilma af Klint and the surrealism of Leonora Carrington. She also brings up the exoticism of Elvis! “I see Gamble’s kaleidoscopic worlds as an effort toward a speculative realm, wherein the spiritual, the creaturely, astronomical, atomic, and Elvis all bump into each other, and new poetry is formed.” Enjoy this great review, and catch the exhibit at Fleisher-Ollman, up until March 12, 2022.
Read MoreNew Artblog Contributor Kate Brock reviews ‘Jennifer Packer: The Eye is Not Satisfied With Seeing,’ a retrospective of the painter’s radiant portraits, interiors, and funerary bouquets. “The lack of dimensional representation of Black people, especially Black women, in the history of painting… leaves the eye unsatisfied… Packer’s vision reveals the historic absences,” Kate says. Catch the show at the Whitney before it closes April 17, 2022.
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