New Work : New York Nov 12, 2009
The works call to mind artists like Philip Guston and Jasper Johns, who also explore the body and its relationship to abstraction. Using reflective aluminum grounds and a limited color palette that consists primarily of black, grey, and white punctuated with red, green, and pink, the paintings offer the viewer a contemplative dream-like space. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Art review: Sandy Walker's 'Forest' Nov 6, 2009
Their manner, bold but not self-advertising, cuts somewhere between that of Franz Kline (1910-1962) and the very spare drawings that helped Philip Guston (1913-1980) make the transition to his influential late style. Yet, Walker's style is his own, anchored in his struggle with the forest as a challenge to description and as a figure for all the worldly complexities art tries to master. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Rose Art Museum display justifies the passions Nov 5, 2009
But if you think all that sounds good, it s in the neighboring Lois Foster wing, a large and beautiful space that was added to the museum s original building in 2001, that at last we get a hearty dollop of the Rose s tremendous postwar holdings: one after the other, sensational works by de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Jasper Johns, Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell, and Louise Nevelson. The de Kooning, an untitled abstraction from 1961 in a dancing palette of blue, yellow, and... (Boston Globe)
Unusual objects Sep 13, 2009
Along with objects, the artists have many other influences on their work, from Andy Warhol to painters like Giorgio Morandi, Peter Doig or Philip Guston. Their interest in art is something that stretches back to a childhood interest in drawing. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
SFMOMA may have shot at Fishers' art collection Jul 4, 2009
Museum leaders will only say that the Fishers' rich collection of work by such artists as Ellsworth Kelly and Philip Guston would be more than welcome. "That (Fisher) collection is so great, so fine, it needs to stay in San Francisco," SFMOMA Director Neal Benezra said Thursday. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Vermont painter George Tooker made waves in the art world Mar 1, 2009
"Gradually Tooker's themes became less explicitly social and more frankly spiritual. His light, in paintings like "Woman with Oranges" (1977), and "Embrace of Peace II" (1988), came to be suffused with warm oranges and yellows that seem not just to reflect light but to generate it from within.Certainly, there is something anachronistic about Tooker's work. There always was. To be painting in egg tempera in the painstaking manner of Piero della Francesca just as Pollock was treating the canvas as... (Boston Globe)
Landscape painting shaped the direction of art for a century, then all but vanished. What happened? Mar 1, 2009
Whether it's pop masters like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, storytellers like Jacob Lawrence and Philip Guston, or more recent standouts like Elizabeth Peyton and John Currin, America's leading painters have done their most important work in other genres. It's hard to think of a major gallery that regularly exhibits new landscape painting. (Boston Globe)
Pictures are out experience is in Feb 14, 2009
Her disemboweled-seeming representations of body parts, made from densely pin-felted wool and other textiles, evoke the paintings of Philip Guston and the cartoons of R. Crumb. As with Weppler-Mahovsky's sculptures, the eye gives you wet, but the material itself goes in another direction, setting up a contradiction between how something looks and how it might feel to the touch. (Globe and Mail)
Critic's picks - visual arts Feb 8, 2009
Curated by Laura Hoptman, senior curator at New York's New Museum, and built around a theme contrasting the spiritual with the material, this generous selection from the permanent collection of the Rose Art Museum includes stunning work by Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Philip Guston, Morris Louis, and Pablo Picasso, as well as fantastic contemporary pieces by Jim Lambie, Liam Gillick, Dana Schutz, and many more. Through April 5. (Boston Globe)
