Galleries: Daniel Mendel-Black's colorful abstractions at Modernism Aug 12, 2007
The almost built-in allusiveness of the medium favors artists such as Robert Ryman and Richard Tuttle, who work the margins of artistic nullity. It stands in the way of someone such as Mendel-Black, who tries to wring a new, distinctive immediacy from materials and rhetoric infused with references beyond his control. (San Francisco Chronicle)
In Venice, sober art amid the spectacle Jun 17, 2007
An impression of conservatism is enhanced in the white galleries of the Italian Pavilion, where abstract paintings by such familiar modern masters as Ellsworth Kelly , Robert Ryman , and Gerhard Richter are prominently featured. Many other artists, however, assert urgently political statements. (Boston Globe)
* Art in the present tense: Politics, loss and beauty Jun 14, 2007
But at the core of the show are more enigmatic works by older contemporary masters like Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Ryman, and Sigmar Polke. Polkes skylit room of magical paintings X dark abstract, translucent canvases X had viewers returning at different times of day to witness how they changed as the weather did, from bright sunlight to rain. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Pax Americana in the Serene Republic Jun 11, 2007
There are rooms devoted to Biennale familiars Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Jenny Holzer, Louise Bourgeois, and Sol LeWitt, as well as newer introductions for an international audience such as Elizabeth Murray, Thomas Nozkowski, and Raymond Pettibon. Mr. Nozkowski's thoughtful, quirkily compact little abstractions loosely intimating specific sources and improvising playfully upon art historical precedents epitomize Mr. Storr's thesis of art at the nexus of the sensual and the cerebral. (New York Sun)
Apocalypse at the Venice Biennale Jun 11, 2007
But at the core of the show were more enigmatic works as well by older contemporary masters like Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Ryman and Sigmar Polke. Polke's skylit room of magical paintings - dark abstract, translucent canvases - had viewers returning at different times of day to witness how they changed as the weather did, from bright sunlight to misting rain. (International Herald Tribune)
And it was all yellow Jun 8, 2007
His white paintings, from the late 1950s, are the equals of Robert Ryman and Piero Manzoni ... In a way, Oiticica's paintings prefigured developments in American art during the 60s and 70s - one inescapably thinks of Frank Stella, Robert Mangold, Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, and numerous later practitioners of what came to be called "fundamental painting". (Guardian Unlimited)
APPRECIATION Apr 13, 2007
" LeWitt's willingness to delegate execution of his work to trusted assistants gave him something like the capacity to be in several places at once. I don't know whether anyone has made a count, but LeWitt probably had more solo exhibitions worldwide than any other artist of his generation, certainly far more than anyone else producing site-specific work. Born in Connecticut to Russian immigrant parents, LeWitt credited the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford with his early education in art. Late in... (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Living the eternal idea Apr 12, 2007
He took a job at the book counter at the Museum of Modern Art, where he met other young artists with odd jobs there, including Dan Flavin, Robert Ryman and Robert Mangold. He noticed the nascent works of Flavin and also absorbed early art by Jasper Johns and Frank Stella. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
