Blocks of Color: American Woodcuts from the 1890s to the Present Sep 7, 2009
Blocks of Color continues up to the present day with prints by 43 other artists, including Polly Apfelbaum, Richard Bosman, Francesco Clemente, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Donald Judd, Karen Kunc, Sherrie Levine, Michael Mazur, and others. Drawn primarily from the Zimmerlis extensive print collection, this exhibition is also complemented by several key loans from regional collections. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Exhibit demonstrates Hans Hofmann’s unparalleled legacy Aug 25, 2009
His influence - either direct or indirect - on the American generation that included Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, and Larry Rivers is renowned. Among Hofmann s students in Provincetown were Lee Krasner, who is represented in this exhibition by a small and haunting self-portrait in pencil, and Robert De Niro (the actor s father), whose muscular and vigorous study of a seated male nude is the strongest (the most intense, concentrated, and convincing) of many similar... (Boston Globe)
Eyeing P-town’s place in American art Aug 5, 2009
Robert Motherwell was there, and Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, and George McNeil, among others. Days Lumberyard Studios 1915-1972, a rewarding exhibit at Acme Fine Art, offers just a sliver of some of the work made by artists who painted there during those years. (Boston Globe)
8 artists in Wallworks show at Yerba Buena Jul 27, 2009
It's impossible, she adds, not to be influenced by the drip-painting tradition in modern art - the work of Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler - but "it's not something I'm trying to engage with." One of her prime influences is the late earthworks artist Robert Smithson, who made "flow" pieces by pouring asphalt, concrete and glue at various outdoor sites. "I'm going to make tons of these, cut 'em up, lay everything out on the floor, start playing around with them and then put 'em on the wall," says... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
A peak inside studios of famous artists Mar 7, 2009
That fan behind Helen Frankenthaler is presumably there to help dry her paintings rather than cool her, since she's wearing long sleeves and thick trousers. It's a bit startling to see Reginald Marsh using a pair of binoculars to look out his studio window at passersby. (Boston Globe)
