Can We Still Learn To Speak Martian?
Deborah Remington "Soot" series 2 (1963) (image courtesy of David Nolan) (click to enlarge)I.Let us start with two addresses just a few blocks from each other in San Francisco, and what was happening...
View ArticleMoving House: Chuck Webster at ZieherSmith
Chuck Webster, "Untitled" (2012) (all images courtesy ZieherSmith gallery)Chuck Webster is in his early 40s. He has been showing regularly in New York for nearly a decade. This is his sixth show at...
View ArticlePainting, Perception, and the Emphatically Handmade
Installation view, “Let’s Get Physical” at Ventana 244: Rick Briggs, “Communion” (2013); Maria Walker, “Calendar 1-65″ (2011) and “Spring” (2013); Chris Martin, “Untitled” (2013) (all photos by the...
View ArticlePoints of Contact: Small Works, Giant Steps
Richard Tuttle, “Section I, Extension I” (2007), 280 lb. Fabriano watercolor paper, acrylic, graphite, hot glue, wood, hammered aluminum armature wire and screws, 7.5 x 3.5 x 3.75 in (all photos by the...
View ArticleThe Pursuit of Art, 2014
Hans Haacke, “Gift Horse, Model for Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London” (2013). Bronze and electroluminescent film; sculpture: 18 1/8 x 16 x 6 1/4 inches; plinth: 13 x 8 1/2 x 18 in.; overall: 30...
View ArticleChuck Webster’s Breakthrough
Chuck Webster, “City to Love” (2013- 2016), oil on panel, 100 x 80 inches (all images courtesy Betty Cuningham Gallery) I have been following Chuck Webster’s work since his first show at Zieher Smith...
View ArticleWhy Something as Humble as Drawing Still Matters
Chuck Webster, “Tinkers” (2019), collage of drawings on handmade antique paper with ink and shellac ink, 25 x 22 1/2 inches (all images courtesy Planthouse) Lest we forget, the practice of drawing...
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