Criticism
 
Mary Lucier, Wisconsin Arc, 2009-2013, Single-channel video installation. Color. Sound. 26:00 (installation view). Courtesy of Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.
closing this weekend at Lennon, Weinberg ...
 
Gabriel Orozco, Island Within an Island, 1993. Silver dye bleach print, 16 x 20 inches, Edition of 5. Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, © 2009 Gabriel Orozco.
On view through May 26 ...
 
Marina Adams, Spin, 2010. Acrylic on Linen, 48 x 48 inches. Courtesy of Hionas Gallery
Quietly audacious abstract paintings on the Lower East Side ...
 


Pierre Soulages, Painting, November 20, 1956 (Peinture, 20 novembre 1956), 1956 Oil on canvas, 195 x 130.2 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Sweeney Guards the Horned Gates: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim


A recent show celebrated collecting tastes of the 1950s


Sandi Slone, Sex With Strangers, 2012. Oil, acrylic, resin on canvas, 40 x 30 inches. Courtesy of Allegra LaViola Gallery

Sex With Strangers: Sandi Slone at Allegra LaViola


Her  aggressively voluptuous paintings are on view through October 6


Stephen Ellis, Marine, 2012. Oil and alkyd on linen, 26 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Von Lintel Gallery, NY

Digital Space: Stephen Ellis at Von Lintel


The veteran of “conceptual abstraction” embraces a new metaphor.


Josef Albers, Color Study for White Line Square, not dated. Oil on blotting paper (with gouache, pencil, and varnish), 29.5 x 29.5 cm © 2012 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society New York

“The Greens are Envious of Each Other”: Josef Albers at the Morgan


Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper at the Morgan Library & Museum


Kris Scheifele, Hate Fade, 2012. Acrylic and acetate, 16 x 12 x 1-1/2 inches. Courtesy of Janet Kurnatowski Gallery and the artist

Box Cutter Sensuality: The Peeled-Off Paintings of Kris Scheifele


Fade is at Janet Kurnatowski through October 7


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Nuances That Carry Weight: Jesper Just at James Cohan


The quiver of a lip, a glance, the color of a dress…
Up through October 27


Xaviera Simmons, Untitled (Pink), 2008 © Xaviera Simmons, Courtesy of the Artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery

Arousing Desire in Post Black America: Mickalene Thomas’s Tête-à-Tête


Provocative  show was at Yancey Richardson this summer


Rudolf Stingel, Untitled, 1987. Oil and enamel on canvas, 78 by 186 inches. Courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery

Abstraction Goes Underground: The Painting Factory at LA MoCA


“Abstraction After Warhol” featured 11 painters, most not using brushes


Christopher Kurtz, Litany, 2012. Bent and hand-carved maple, oak, cedar, and paint, 64 x 156 x 60 inches. Courtesy of Tomlinson Kong Contemporary

Carpentry at the Service of Art: Christopher Kurtz at Tomlinson Kong


Four-piece sculpture show runs on Bowery through September 8


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Life with a Dolphin: A Memoir from Mrs. Clement Greenberg


“A Complicated Marriage: My Life With Clement Greenberg” by Janice Van Horne