tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308326822024-03-17T23:03:24.880-04:00Joanne Mattera Art BlogGUARANTEED BIASED, MYOPIC, INCOMPLETE, AND JOURNALISTICALLY SUSPECTUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger933125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-42889891681317729302016-12-26T13:53:00.003-05:002017-02-02T20:00:36.828-05:00This blog is now an archive. Ten years' worth of posts are on this site and will remain available. A new blog with the same name (but different URL) is in the works now and will go live on January 1, 2017. Please visit me there. But feel free to return to this archive whenever you wish.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-90759783469548894182016-10-03T01:13:00.003-04:002016-12-26T13:49:54.193-05:00Chromatic Space in Lower Manhattan
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"From the rigorous flatness of hard edge painting to the celestial expanse of color field work, color can enhance or defy the flatness of the canvas, and activate the work in an exciting variety of ways. Dialogues of translucence and opacity, movement and stasis, surface and depth are played out through the use of color in the work of different abstract artists."
--Jonathan D. Lippincott, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-4687351664137224162016-09-17T15:14:00.000-04:002016-09-17T15:22:40.470-04:00"Indian Summer" in New York City
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Well, it was going to be a summer show, but a splendid tribute to the late Babe Shapiro stayed up through August, so time and title shifted to the Indian Summer Show. It certainly felt like a summer show, though: 84 degrees and tropically humid when we gathered in the early evening at the East 29th Street gallery, just off Park Avenue South.
Visible here, 12 of the 24 artists Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-76570094298688659382016-09-14T14:32:00.000-04:002016-09-16T10:01:22.920-04:00"I Always Return to Hue"
Newbury Street view of my solo show st Arden Gallery, Boston
So my big plans for a summer of reporting from Massachusetts were cut short when I launched into overdrive to complete work for this solo show. (I did manage two posts, a comprehensive Visit to the Outer Cape and a splendid installation of pattern and light at the Peabody Essex Museum.) Now we're standing on Newbury Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-69565984694261768232016-07-25T20:45:00.001-04:002016-07-26T10:44:17.034-04:00Critical Mass: A Visit to the Outer Cape
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In this series:
. The Presence of Harmonies at the Peabody Essex Museum
Tabitha Vevers at Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown
PROVINCETOWN-- My series, Critical Mass., continues with a trip to the far end of Cape Cod, highlighting exhibitions at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill in Truro, and in Provincetown at the Albert Merola Gallery and Schoolhouse Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-36191520953809984872016-07-02T13:25:00.003-04:002016-07-02T13:34:13.413-04:00Critical Mass: "The Presence of Harmonies"
Anila Quayyum Agha's Intersections installation at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
I'm spending the entire summer in Massachusetts, so as I have done from time to time in previous years, I'm reviving Critical Mass., my reportage of art in the Bay State. In this first installment we visit the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, a gem of an Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-39531495300993010132016-04-29T15:10:00.002-04:002016-04-29T16:44:52.425-04:00Black and White
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There's a lot of great work in Chelsea and the Lower East Side right now--more than I can report on in individual posts--so I'll be offering a few roundups. The first is this one: a look at a range of work in black and white. Some of the exhibitions are still up; others have closed or are about to.
Melissa Meyer, New Work, at Lennon Weinberg, up through May 7
Here, Draw the Line, 2015, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-33393048370173383142016-04-09T10:00:00.000-04:002016-04-09T18:08:22.969-04:00The Illusive Eye at El Museo, Part 2
Click for Part One
Judith Lauand, Brazil: Untitled, 1959, tempera on board
Welcome
to Part 2 of my report of The Illusive Eye at El Museo del Barrio in New York
city, a splendid exhibition curated by the museum’s director, Jorge Daniel
Veneciano. While I loved the entire exhibition, I respond more strongly to the galleries you see here. In
part that’s because we are Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-21027141721176696502016-04-03T12:28:00.000-04:002016-04-17T11:36:49.251-04:00The Illusive Eye at El Museo, Part 1
Welcome to The Illusive Eye, at El Museum del Barrio through May 21.
Left: Carlos Cruz-Diez, Venezuela: Psysichromie 321-B, 1967, plastic, cardboard, acrylic, wood; Tadasky, United States via Japan:
#B-115, 1964, oil on canvas
El Museo del Barrio
El Museo del Barrio is at the northernmost end of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile, which starts at 82nd Street and endsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-26829602458678231102016-03-24T10:00:00.000-04:002016-03-25T10:31:58.951-04:0045 Years at OK Harris
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Art history in a bound volume, 45 Years at OK Harris
(Red endpapers cast a roseate glow on the title page)
I haven’t been posting much lately. Aside from recovering from knee
surgery and the effects of pain medication, I wanted the previous post, The Onward of Art, to be visible during the two-month run of the exhibition. One of
the things I love about that exhibition, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-65857088912182616362016-01-23T19:14:00.002-05:002016-03-21T20:04:25.516-04:00The Onward of Art: American Abstract Artists Celebrates its 80th AnniversaryRead James Panero's review in The New Criterion
Closing March 26
"It seems imperative to consider not just AAA's distinguished past but, more importantly, its robust present."
--Karen Wilkin, curator of The Onward of Art
An installation view, looking toward Sixth Avenue, of The Onward of Art at the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery, New York City. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-51054739302049862162016-01-23T11:28:00.001-05:002016-01-23T11:28:07.517-05:00Snow
Image from the Huffington Post
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-55609312823807291382015-12-31T11:00:00.000-05:002015-12-31T11:19:18.439-05:00Fair Fetched: The Wrapup
See You in Miami
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 1, ABMB, Untitled, Pulse
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 2, A Couple of Hotel Fairs
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 3, Miami Project, Nada, Scope
Fair Fetched: Yes, Pink
Fair Fetched: The Phrygian Cap
Fair Fetched: Some Paintings
Fair Fetched: Punctum
Fair Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-45128382676611823572015-12-29T18:00:00.000-05:002015-12-30T10:52:21.974-05:00Fair Fetched: Material Mashup, Part 2
See You in Miami
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 1, ABMB, Untitled, Pulse
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 2, A Couple of Hotel Fairs
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 3, Miami Project, Nada, Scope
Fair Fetched: Yes, Pink
Fair Fetched: The Phrygian Cap
Fair Fetched: Some Paintings
Fair Fetched: Punctum
Fair Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-25434917464460780992015-12-28T16:00:00.000-05:002015-12-30T10:52:41.382-05:00Fair Fetched: Material Mashup, Part 1
See You in Miami
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 1, ABMB, Untitled, Pulse
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 2, A Couple of Hotel Fairs
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 3, Miami Project, Nada, Scope
Fair Fetched: Yes, Pink
Fair Fetched: The Phrygian Cap
Fair Fetched: Some Paintings
Fair Fetched: Punctum
Fair Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-55944072775112143292015-12-27T12:06:00.001-05:002015-12-30T10:54:34.735-05:00Fair Fetched: Punctum
See You in Miami
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 1, ABMB, Untitled, Pulse
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 2, A Couple of Hotel Fairs
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 3, Miami Project, Nada, Scope
Fair Fetched: Yes, Pink
Fair Fetched: The Phrygian Cap
Fair Fetched: Some Paintings
Fair Fetched: Punctum
Fair Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-79237154609174214072015-12-25T13:36:00.000-05:002015-12-30T10:55:18.185-05:00Fair Fetched: Some Paintings
See You in Miami
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 1, ABMB, Untitled, Pulse
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 2, A Couple of Hotel Fairs
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 3, Miami Project, Nada, Scope
Fair Fetched: Yes, Pink
Fair Fetched: The Phrygian Cap
Fair Fetched: Some Paintings
Fair Fetched: Punctum
Fair Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-9886478532683220782015-12-21T23:56:00.001-05:002015-12-30T10:55:38.846-05:00Fair Fetched: The Phrygian Cap
See You in Miami
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 1, ABMB, Untitled, Pulse
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 2, A Couple of Hotel Fairs
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 3, Miami Project, Nada, Scope
Fair Fetched: Yes, Pink
Fair Fetched: The Phrygian Cap
Fair Fetched: Some Paintings
Fair Fetched: Punctum
Fair Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-80697616231994724842015-12-20T01:39:00.000-05:002016-01-21T01:30:56.710-05:00Fair Fetched: Yes, Pink
See You in Miami
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 1, ABMB, Untitled, Pulse
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 2, A Couple of Hotel Fairs
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 3, Miami Project, Nada, Scope
Fair Fetched: Yes, Pink
Fair Fetched: The Phrygian Cap
Fair Fetched: Some Paintings
Fair Fetched: Punctum
Fair Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-67407358174551124382015-12-16T15:52:00.001-05:002015-12-30T10:56:22.514-05:00Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami, Part 3A Few More Fairs
See You in Miami
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 1, ABMB, Untitled, Pulse
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 2, A Couple of Hotel Fairs
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 3, Miami Project, Nada, Scope
Fair Fetched: Yes, Pink
Fair Fetched: The Phrygian Cap
Fair Fetched: Some Paintings
Fair Fetched: Punctum&Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-16783397254460441842015-12-13T17:48:00.001-05:002015-12-30T10:56:51.537-05:00Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami, Part 2
A Couple of Hotel Fairs
See You in Miami
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 1, ABMB, Untitled, Pulse
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 2, A Couple of Hotel Fairs
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 3, Miami Project, Nada, Scope
Fair Fetched: Yes, Pink
Fair Fetched: The Phrygian Cap
Fair Fetched: Some Paintings
Fair Fetched: Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-57644670834222400212015-12-10T19:32:00.000-05:002015-12-30T10:57:11.795-05:00Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami, Part 1
See You in Miami
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 1, ABMB, Untitled, Pulse
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 2, A Couple of Hotel Fairs
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 3, Miami Project, Nada, Scope
Fair Fetched: Yes, Pink
Fair Fetched: The Phrygian Cap
Fair Fetched: Some Paintings
Fair Fetched: Punctum
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-68500254123207658032015-11-30T09:30:00.000-05:002015-12-30T10:57:34.152-05:00See You in Miami?
Read my Morandi report here
See You in Miami
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 1, ABMB, Untitled, Pulse
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 2, A Couple of Hotel Fairs
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 3, Miami Project, Nada, Scope
Fair Fetched: Yes, Pink
Fair Fetched: The Phrygian Cap
Fair Fetched: Some Paintings
Fair Fetched:Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-17282853211297880982015-11-27T21:00:00.000-05:002015-11-28T13:21:13.195-05:00Giorgio Morandi, “Peculiar Realist”
Detail of Autoritratto (Self Portrait), 1930, oil on canvas
This is the last of the very few self portraits Morandi painted
There are several ways
I could begin this report. The first would be to tell you that when you walk off the
elevator on the fourth floor of the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) in
SoHo you encounter a
many-times-larger-than-life photograph of Morandi’s&Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30832682.post-37196397996252559322015-11-08T11:00:00.000-05:002015-11-08T17:41:47.819-05:00Morandi: A Look Back (at a Look Back).
With two Morandi exhibitions in New York City right now--at the Center for Italian Modern Art in Soho. left, and David Zwirner in Chelsea, below--I'm linking to a 2009 interview I did with the art dealer Stephen Haller, who spent time with Morandi at the end of the artist's life. Click here for the story.
Haller with a book on the artist. The frontispieceUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1