Jay Shinn has studios in both Dallas and New York and I have been interested in seeing his work for some time. Since the second grade Jay has known he wanted to be an artist. He experimented using oil, tempura, and pencil to make both figurative and abstract works, however, it was in the ninth [...]

I did a cursory run through of this spectacular show at MoMA at the opening. You must go see it. If you don’t live in NY, it is actually worth a trip to see these works in person. I have to go back and spend a few hours there before I write about it and [...]

The National Academy Museum originally opened before museums as we know them today existed. The goal of the Academy was to assemble a body of work that would demonstrate the styles, tastes, and contributions of American art and architecture from the 1820s-1970s. The founders stated that upon election, members had to donate one artwork representative [...]

Peter Eleey has done a magnificent job of curating a moving and artistically solid exhibition. He explained to the small group he led through his show at PS1 that the idea for it had been brewing in his head for awhile. Curators are usually the experts trying to teach the audience something with an exhibition, but in [...]

Originally from Southern California and Phoenix, Arizona, Laurel attended Boston for her undergraduate degree. Initially Laurel was interested in dance but at 15, she made the switch to the visual arts and attended an arts high school in Southern California where her family now lives. After dabbling in drawing, photography and painting, she knew she [...]

Chelsea was hopping on Saturday and it wasn’t just a browsing crowd, I saw some big collectors out shopping.
Here are my picks to see in Chelsea:
Nick Cave-”Ever-After” at Jack Shainman in collaboration with Mary Boone (513 West 20th Street)
It is about time the general public discover what the art world has known for awhile, [...]

On view at the Guggenheim are the works of Lee Ufan from the 1960s to the present. Born in 1936 in Korea, Ufan has lived and worked in Korea, Japan and France. He attended art college in Seoul and then moved to Tokyo in 1960 receiving a degree in philosophy. Throughout his life he has [...]

My initial reaction upon entering the studio of the young artist Juliana Romano is that I was struck by how much I like her paintings. I am always a bit leery when it comes to figurative painting, especially portraits that so intimately capture the sitter. However, in Juliana’s case, there is no sitter, only images [...]

I thoroughly enjoyed the exhibition “Ostalgia.” And it’s about time the New Museum finally got some kudos for a show. Stemming from a term that came about in the 1990s, the title describes “a sense of longing and nostalgia for the era before the collapse of the Communist Bloc.” In the struggle for people to [...]

Born in Tripoli, Fawad Khan has lived in Pakistan, Baltimore, and now New York. His environs tremendously impact his artwork; his oeuvre includes drawings with ink and gouache, paintings, wall drawings that incorporate video and installations.
His powerful work, which has most often included subject matter related to suicide bombings and the violence that has become [...]