Em Davenport’s atavistic feminism

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…

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NYC Selected Gallery Guide, September 2026

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…

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Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) September 2026

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…

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Two Coats Resident Artist Scott Wolniak, September 13–18, 2026

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…

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Shuyao Huang: Challenging calmness

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…

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A not-so-freak snowstorm at Dimin

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…

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SG & AG Gallery: The Handmade’s Tale

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 …

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Higher beings at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art

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…

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Henry Klimowicz: Marvelous and nearly impossible

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…

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Conversation: Sharon Butler talks to Marion Wilson and Louis Block at The Floating Gallery on Martha’s Vineyard

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…

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Three colorists at Bernay Fine Art

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…

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Mattatuck Museum: Diversity as Americana

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…

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Abstraction, playful Post-modernism, and provocation at the Lyman Allyn Museum

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…

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NYC Selected Gallery Guide, August 2026

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…

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Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) August 2026

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…

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Mary Jones’s risk and rigor

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…

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Immersion at Fugue Gallery

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…

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Peter Bradley: Pleasure and provocation

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 …

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Melora Kuhn: Refreshing myth

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 …

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Griffin and Griffin: City lights

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 …

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Where I Learned to See: On Backrooms, class, Cubism, and the church basement

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…

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Tracey Emin, triumphant survivor

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: …

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Todd Stong: Probing art history

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…

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Evolving horror at Management

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 …

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Jihoon Cho: State and shadow

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…

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Daniel Correa Mejía: Harmony and flow

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…

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Matthew Gilbert: Pick-up trucks, no pink carnations

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…

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Torild Stray: Between Bergen and Brooklyn, circuitously

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…

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Two Coats of Paint Resident Artist Corrine Yonce, July 19–24, 2026

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…

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