Collage: Past, Present and Future A review of Over, Under, Next: Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913- Present April 18th to September 8th, 2013 Hirshhorn Museum by Sarah Kate Jorgensen The Hirshhorn’s collage, found object, and assemblage show– Over ,Under, Next- marks the 100th anniversary of collage. Beginning with Pablo Picasso’s and Georges Braque’s 1912 paper […]
Read More Collage: Past, Present and FutureJennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance The Hirshhorn Museum May 16th- Oct 27th, 2013 by Tim Ruane Jennie C. Jones pushes the world of art to a new place. An African American artist, Jones does this with her minimalist show, “Higher Resonance,” which turns a room of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. […]
Read More Jennie C. Jones at the HirshhornMay 2013 The Fantastic Painting Show Chelsea, NYC May 2013 By Sarah Kate Jorgensen “The Fantastic Painting Show” presents three artists: Rebecca Haskins, Shiri Mordechay and Bettina Sellmann, whose work combines the narrative, the historical and the fanciful. Each are painters who create exciting, multilayered pieces that refer to contemporary time as well as to […]
Read More The Fantastic Painting ShowThe Civil War and American Art By Sarah Kate Jorgensen Smithsonian American Art Museum & The Metropolitan Museum of Art PART 3: THE RETURN In Winslow Homer’s The Veteran in a New Field, sun shimmers off the wheat as it sways in the wind. The painting is made up of three bands of color: the […]
Read More The Civil War and American Art. Part ThreeThe Civil War and American Art By Sarah Kate Jorgensen Smithsonian American Art Museum & The Metropolitan Museum of Art PART 2: EASTMAN JOHNSON’S “NEGRO LIFE AT THE SOUTH” Genre paintings reveal personal and political narratives in the exhibit The Civil War and American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. They cover topics from […]
Read More The Civil War and American Art. Part TwoThe Civil War and American Art By Sarah Kate Jorgensen Smithsonian American Art Museum & The Metropolitan Museum of Art PART 1: THE LANDSCAPE OF THE NATION The Civil War and American Art is a phenomenal book and exhibition put on by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This challenging, […]
Read More The Civil War and American Art. Part OneDive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting October 27, 2012 through May 12, 2013 San Jose Museum of Art Art Review by Ingrid M. Reeve Eric Fischl’s exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art, Dive Deep, might be divided into two parts: Eric Fischl as painter and Eric Fischl as narrator. The […]
Read More Eric Fischl at the San Jose Museum of ArtAn Intimate World: Welling’s Wyeth David Zwirner, New York/London Art Review By Sarah Kate Jorgensen A full moon obscured by clouds, an isolated farmhouse, light through a dormer window; a wall cast in shadows; the yellowing and reddening of the leaves; a frosted window; wallpaper peeling off the kitchen wall; a cabinet of spices, windows […]
Read More An Intimate World: Welling’s WyethCapturing the Instant: Constant Flux New Photography 2012 MoMA October 3, 2012–February 4, 2013 by Deborah Johnstone In the wake of Hurricane Sandy my mind frayed. I feel blessed that we were spared the devastation of losing a home. But my heart broke for those on the Jersey Shore, in Queens, Staten Island, and other […]
Read More Capturing the Instant: Constant FluxThe Table of Plenty The National Gallery of Art by Sarah Kate Jorgensen The National Gallery of Art’s masterpiece by Willem Claesz Heda , Banquet Piece with Mince Pie (1635), builds on the extraordinary delight the Dutch and Flemish took in the richness of the visual world. The Netherlands was one of the most commercially […]
Read More The Table of PlentyPaintings for Thrills Painting Factory: Abstraction after Warhol MOCA By Hank Huang Americans do a lot of day dreaming. We all have glamorous desires. In our losing battles of corporate takeover, we should realize that it is damn tough to grasp them. America boldly flexes its patriotic righteousness, but with almost $16 trillion dollars in […]
Read More Paintings for ThrillsWomen: By, Of, About Nancy Hoffman Gallery by Jessica Rowshandel I was walking in Chelsea, on my way to another show when the Nancy Hoffman Gallery caught my attention and lured me into a u-turn. The window read, Women: By, Of, About. I was immediately intrigued and crossed the street. The gallery’s press release explains […]
Read More Women: By, Of, About at Nancy Hoffman Gallery
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