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Bradley Rubenstein
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Theater of Painting: Susan Bee + Bradley Rubenstein
by Bradley Rubenstein
2013-03-24
New York, Mar. 2013: Susan Bee is a painter, editor, and book artist who lives in New York. Bee is represented by Accola Griefen Gallery, New York, where she will have a solo show of new paintings from May 23 to June 29, 2013. Criss Cross: New Paintings will be accompanied by a catalog with an essay by art critic and poet, Raphael Rubinstein.
Susan Bee, Criss Cross, 2012, 24 X 30 in., oil, enamel and sand on canvas; Courtesy of the artist.
Bradley Rubenstein: Susan, I just saw this piece by R... [more]
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Glamorama: Nicola Tyson + Bradley Rubenstein
by Bradley Rubenstein
2013-03-17
New York, Mar. 2013: Nicola Tyson's photographs document the early days of the Blitz Kids and the beginnings of the New Romantic movement—late seventies, post-Punk London. "Bowie Nights at Billy's Club" was a weekly event in a small Soho venue, the brainchild of a young Steve Strange and Rusty Egan. The event quickly became the beating heart of a brand-new scene—a refuge for disillusioned punks; suburban art school students; androgynous, subversive, creative kids; and (most importantly) Bowie... [more]
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Luxe, Calme, et Volupté
by Bradley Rubenstein
Henri Matisse at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
December 4th, 2012 - March 17th
Posted
2/19/13
The prospect of seeing forty-nine of Matisse’s finest works should be enticement enough, however, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has upped the ante by arranging this somewhat thematic exhibition in groupings, which show the painter refining his personal explorations in modernist paintings through endless, subtle variations. Although the pedagogical aspects of this might seem a little staid at first flush, upon close study one becomes entranced by the intricate, reductive logic that lay at the h... [more]
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Game Theory: Michael Rees + Bradley Rubenstein
by Bradley Rubenstein
2012-12-16
New York, Dec. 2012: Michael Rees is a New York artist. His first New York show at 303 opened in the early 90's. Then, as now, his work displays humor with a reflective conflation of the psychosomatic, the automatic source of language and its programmatic development. He has worked widely developing animation, sculpture, installation and interactive media. As of late his interest in the object grows through collaboration, humor and language examined through a collision of medias. Upcoming pr... [more]
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Call Me Ishmael
by Bradley Rubenstein
Barnaby Furnas at Marianne Boesky Gallery 24th St
November 9th, 2012 - January 9th
Posted
12/8/12
Once, while Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
And he said unto them, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
And they immediately left their nets and followed him.
(Matthew 4:18–20)
Barnaby Furnas has always had a penchant for drama in paint. Images of heavy metal bands and great veils of crashing, velvety, blood-red seas. Here Furnas has taken as his starting point... [more]
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50 Shades of Gray
by Bradley Rubenstein
Pablo Picasso at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
October 5th, 2012 - January 23rd
Posted
11/12/12
Claiming once that color weakened his work, being merely an addition to an already finished canvas, Picasso eliminated it from his palette during many phases of his well-documented career. If one wanted to make the case that the haunting blue period and the sugary rose one were the painterly equivalents of tinted photos, then there might be a case to be made for it being a lifelong practice with which Picasso demonstrated the supremacy of drawing above all else in his work. Clearly the Guggenhe... [more]
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Five Easy Pieces
by Bradley Rubenstein
Tony Smith at Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 W. 22nd St.
September 7th, 2012 - October 27th, 2012
Posted
10/5/12
Nominally a show of sculpture, Matthew Marks is presenting something more like relics of art world myth, or a romanticized artist-buddy story (think Lust for Life or Schnabel’s Basquiat). It seems an odd pairing at first glance—Pollock, whose paintings consist of poured or dripped skeins of paint, is the archetype of Ab Ex passion, and Tony Smith, with his Buckminster Fuller-like geodesic monuments, ushered in an Age of Cool. This show presents the remains of a day, one spent at Smith’s New... [more]
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Psychosexy: Interview with David Humphrey
by Bradley Rubenstein
2012-09-22
New York, Sep. 2012: David Humphrey is a New York artist, born in 1955, who has been showing his paintings and sculpture internationally since the 1980s. Occasionally called a Pop Surrealist, his work hybridizes a variety of depiction schemes and idioms to make works charged with psycho-social content and narrative potential. He is represented by the Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, NY, and is a senior critic at the Yale School of Art. An anthology of his art writing, Blind Handshake, was published by... [more]
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L'Age d'Or
by Bradley Rubenstein
Edouard Vuillard at The Jewish Museum
May 4th, 2012 - September 23rd, 2012
Posted
8/27/12
As a young painter in the 1890s, Vuillard became a member of the Parisian group of avant-garde artists known as the Nabis (“prophets” in Hebrew and Arabic). Taking their inspiration from the Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin (who was twenty years Vuillard's senior) as well as Toulouse-Lautrec (who was just four years older), the Nabis used simplified form and planes of pure color to create decorative, subtly emotive pictures, with a somewhat spiritual bent. During his Nabi period, which lasted t... [more]
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The Order of Things: Interview with Pedro Barbeito
by Bradley Rubenstein
2012-08-26
New York, Aug. 2012: Pedro Barbeito’s exhibition at The Aldrich, Pop Violence, presents a series of work ranging from 2005 to the present that are based on images of war taken primarily from the world news media. For Barbeito, these works address the formative role of violence in contemporary life, from a political ethos driven by “terror” and deception, to the aesthetics of visual assault prevailing in popular culture. They draw upon the anxieties of an age when we are afforded, primarily... [more]
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Slow Burn
by Bradley Rubenstein
Rodney Dickson at Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc.
June 5th, 2012 - July 13th, 2012
Posted
6/24/12
To call Rodney Dickson a painter’s painter does him something of a disservice, implying that his work speaks only to the few and initiated. In fact, both Dickson and his paintings strive for a more communal, universal language—one that collectively might understand the search that he undertakes with each painting. In an age that has seen the deconstruction, reconstruction, and post-reconstruction of painting, Dickson reaches back to an era that saw the act of painterly engagement as, first an... [more]
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Don't Miss the Van Gogh Boat
by Bradley Rubenstein
Keith Haring at Brooklyn Museum of Art
March 16th, 2012 - July 8th, 2012
Posted
5/5/12
Not since Andy Warhol has an artist been as driven to achieve both popular and critical success simultaneously as Keith Haring. Although his trademark images of radiant babies, anthropomorphized televisions, barking dogs, and UFOs caught the attention of the NYC subway-riding masses, and his Pop Shop products rivaled Warhol’s Factory output, Haring received little museum attention during his lifetime. René Ricard, in 1981, wrote about Haring with great prescience:
Everyone wants to get on the Van Gogh Boat. There is... [more]
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