Contributed by Amanda Church / Who else had never heard of Herman Cherry (1909–1992) until images of his spare and radiant paintings suddenly started appearing all over social media? With two NYC g…

Contributed by Sharon Butler / In October, Two Coats of Paint welcomes Kirstin Lamb from Providence, Rhode Island. She has taught at Brown University and Clark University and is currently a visitin…

Contributed by Sharon Butler / Two artists I know are both showing at Brigitte Mulholland in Paris this month: Dublin-based Damien Flood, whom I knew from our days showing together at Theodore, and…

Contributed by Sharon Garbe / Gathering Moss, the title of a work in Selena Kimball’s exhibition “Ice-blink” at Ulterior Gallery, describes both literal activity and metaphorical non-activity…

Contributed by Jenny Zoe Casey / In “Kin Terrains,” nonagenarian Bascha Mon’s second exhibition at Tappeto Volante Gallery, Unfinished stands out for its semi-representational approach and for rich…

Contributed by Richard Klein / The ellipsis in the title of Joseph Fucigna’s current show “In Process …” at G-Town Arts signifies a story unfolding. Known for abstract, biomorphic sculpture made wi…

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum’s decennial exhibition “I am what is around me,” devoted to Connecticut-based artists and cued by Hartford poet Wallace Steve…

Contributed by Adam Simon / At one time I would have said the paintings of Lindsay Walt fell within the domain of Minimalism. It’s clear from her current show at Helm Contemporary that the designat…

Contributed by Bill Arning / An effusively punky-queer sensibility infuses all 14 ceramic objects populating Luka Carter’s first show at Fireplace Project’s Warren Street storefront. Their image wo…

Contributed by Jacob Cartwright / This is Roy Dowell’s fourth solo exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery since 2020, so it’s not arriving out of the blue. That said, while all his previous shows have…

Contributed by Ben Godward / Mark Greenwold, the painter, once told me, “The best art is dumb.”  He said that I always understood that. I took it as a compliment. I think what he meant …

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Chicago-based Em Davenport is a Gen-Z-er, still in her twenties, yet her solo show “love,” held over at Galerie Nicolas Robert, reveals a knowing old soul, hip t…

Contributed by Sharon Butler / We are into September, which is a grueling month for the art community, like hanging out with an old friend from high school who’s developed a proselytizing passion f…

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / Late summer is arguably the best time in the Hudson Valley, with mild temperatures, sunny skies, flowers blooming everywhere, and loads of fresh produce at local mark…

Contributed by Sharon Butler / In September, Two Coats of Paint welcomes Scott Wolniak, a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist working primarily as a painter, with occasional forays into sculptur…

Contributed by Taylor Bielecki / In Shuyao Huang’s exhibition “Still Becoming,” currently on view at Art Cake, she investigates color, repetition, and form as modes of experiencing time, interrupti…

Contributed by Amanda Church / Christmas in July? Not quite, but Dimin Gallery is presenting “Blizzard” in August, normally the hottest month of the year, and it is indeed a cool, stylistically div…

Contributed by Sharon Butler / Most artists participating in the prestigious Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts 2025 Artists in Residence Program in New Berlin, New York, make art the …

Contributed by Helen Kauder / A friend once confided that he adopted a dog just so he could pick up dates while walking in the park. I was reminded of this while viewing “Deus Ex-Bark-ina,” the fli…

Contributed by Bill Arning / Ascending the stairs in Geary’s new space in Salisbury, Connecticut – a tastefully renovated suburban house – one anticipates modestly scaled artworks in small, semi-do…

Contributed by Sharon Butler / On August 8, I visited Marion Wilson in Vineyard Haven at The Floating Gallery – a studio and gallery she created on a wooden boatbuilder’s mini-barge – to talk…

Contributed by Leslie Roberts / In “Polychrome,” Bernay Fine Art presents paintings by three painters – Jenny Kemp, Audrey Stone, and Deborah Zlotsky – who all create striking chromatic relationshi…

ontributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Celebrating the 250th anniversary of a country putatively vaunted for its liberal pluralism when in fact it is nearly as bitterly divided as it was during the Civ…

Contributed by Sharon Butler / I was born in New London, Connecticut, still known as “The Whaling City,” having trailed only New Bedford in vessels and voyages in the late nineteenth century and am…

Contributed by Sharon Butler / In August, it seems as though many gallerists and artists are anywhere but NYC. But there are stalwart exceptions like Spencer Brownstone (LES) , with a clutch of art…

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / The Hudson Valley’s artistic momentum shows no signs of slowing as galleries across the region open new exhibitions on Saturday, August 1. Highlights include so…

Contributed by Elisabeth Condon / Mary Jones pushes divergent visual modalities to – but not beyond – the breaking point in “Reservations” at High Noon Gallery, combining abstraction, décor, and ph…

Contributed by Will Maddoxx / At first, Fugue Gallery’s new Chinatown space seems like an apartment gallery or DIY space: the walls are brick, the windows are curtained, soft music plays on speaker…

Contributed by David Rhodes / In Peter Bradley’s third solo exhibition with Karma, all the paintings are from the previous 12 months, ranging in size from 36 inches square to 104 x 82 inches. They …

Contributed by Bill Arning / Museums and theaters are hard-pressed to introduce younger audiences to canonical works whose titles contain the word “rape.” Art history, drawn largely from the Bible …

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The painter Nora Griffin, nonpareil chronicler of New York City, grew up in Noho as her father George conjured, as she puts it, “a sweeter version of R. Crumb’s …

Contributed by Brenda Zlamany / A few days before I saw Backrooms, I attended Julian Schnabel’s In the Hand of Dante and stayed for the Q&A, with Laurie Anderson leading a conversation w…

Contributed by David Carrier / Now and again, I have second thoughts about my initial strong response in an art exhibition. That was the case, in a way that deserves discussion, with “Tracey Emin: …

Contributed by Bill Arning / Philadelphia is having a moment as a city where artists can still afford to live and work. In an essay for the journal October, conceptual sculptor Josh Kline argued ex…

Contributed by Patrick Bell / When the world stops making sense so does the body; the figure comes apart at the seams and becomes grotesque. “New Grotesque” at Management gathers 15 artists around …

Contributed by Kenneth Greiner / Jihoon Cho, a South Korean-born artist-in-residence at WIP Space in Wandsworth, London, recently unveiled his latest spatial poem “Open Canopy” in the studio buildi…

Contributed by Will Maddoxx / Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about surface. Daniel Correa Mejía’s show “El amor se esconde como un animal salvaje” (“Love hides like a wild animal”) at P.P.O.W enc…

Contributed by Bill Arning / Plunked in the middle of Matthew Gilbert’s solo exhibition “Pretend Till It Hurts” at Jane St. Art is a five-foot-tall steel construction crane buckling under the weigh…

Contributed by Patrick Neal / This time of year in Norway, the sun sets around 10 o’clock at night and rises at 3 a.m., and the day shifts from misty drizzles of rain to clear, sunny skies. Whether…

Contributed by Sharon Butler / In July, Two Coats of Paint welcomes Vermont artist and Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Middlebury College Corrine Yonce to the Residency Program. She w…

Contributed by Sharon Butler/ July and August are the slowest months for NYC galleries. Many limit summer hours to weekdays, and close early on Friday, so check and see when they are open before yo…

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / The art scene was buzzing in June for Upstate Art Weekend, and it’s not slowing down in July. New exhibitions are opening throughout the month, starting on July…

In connection with “Nancy Bowen: From A to Z and the Bodies In Between,” Bowen’s solo exhibition at Nunu Fine Art, Two Coats of Paint arranged a conversation between the artist an…

Contributed by Lucas Moran / In early March, when another gallery seemed to disappear every few days, I opened Instagram to find Hannah Studnick’s dashboard confessional announcing that Ruby/…

Contributed by Lawre Stone / The Re Institute – a dairy barn built in the 1960s that Henry Klimowicz has repurposed as rustic art gallery – seems to arise sublimely out of nowhere, exuding the free…

Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Two Coats of Paint Press recently published a limited edition of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s semi-autobiographical, epistolary novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther …

Contributed by David Whelan / Peter Acheson’s paintings and sculptures live on the edge of composure through seemingly dashed-off operations, loose frameworks, and blurred boundaries. By making art…

Contributed by Bill Arning / Comments at openings such as, “I just can’t look at another painting by a hot young artist showing off a dreamy life in Fire Island Pines” are all too familiar – “hot” …