Octoberfest

Chairman of the Board by Helen Frankenthaler at MoMA

my god, i've seen so much great art around the city this month! partially becuz i've been hitting the museums like a mad woman. last year i clandestinely acquired a pass that gets me into just about every museum for free that expires at the end of this month!....eeek! what's an artist to do? really, nyc should have some sort of paid yearly pass for residents that gives you free museum admission. but moving on....below are some highlights from this month's shows around town. i still plan on hitting the Brooklyn Museum of Art this week...so much art to see, so little time!

i walked into MoMA and was floored by the beauty above. look at that expanse of color and lovely 'white space'! this particular jaunt thru the museum fed my current interest in showcasing painting materials and their glory. the raw material itself expresses so much and the simplicity of form reinforces it. this painting really has immense grace. i'm reeducating myself on the grand poobahs of modern painting...you'll find more of the mastahs and others below.

Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 108 by Robert Motherwell at MoMA

BAM, black broad color and shape! i have always wanted to create painting w/just black, white, ocher and baby blue. to me, those colors say Motherwell. i love the mix of large loose form and rectilinear shapes.

Chief by Franz Kline at MoMA

Three Color Curl by Walead Beshty at MoMA

the pure color in his photographs is breathtaking. all of it is done in the dark room - no photoslop here.

No. 10 by Mark Rothko at MoMA

Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea by Mark Rothko at MoMA

Summation by Arshile Gorky at MoMA

on to the Whitney....

Lucinda Childs: Dance (installation view) at The Whitney

amazing to see the preliminary drawings, ideas and sketches by all 3 artists: Lucinda Childs, Sol Lewitt, and Phillip Glass. sat there for the longest time watching the performance - excellent!

Untitled (Study for Mosquitoes) by Steve Wolfe at The Whitney

this ain't just an old book cover glued to paper people, Mr Wolfe here is a master of trompe l'oeil. the exhibition included a few 'records' too. even w/out at first knowing that he lovely created all the cracks and tears, i really dug his collages. the colors and compositions are fantastic. too bad the whitney isn't a little more generous w/photos on their site. i'm not even sure if the above was at the show, but was all i could find online.

David Wojnarowics, Untitled at the Whitney

also on view at The Whitney is A Few Frames; Photography and the Contact Sheet. really great stuff, but once again, sense the whitney is not so generous w/images all i got is this description from their website,

the photographic contact or proof sheet with its apparent repetition is a recurring theme, its grid the underpinning for juxtapositions that may or may not have actually occurred as sequential exposures.






and to The Met....

The Milkmaid byJohannes Vermeer at The Met
,looked like it was lit from behind! i know a lot of people think vermeer is over rated; don't care, his paintings are lovely to look at. the frick has some nice ones too.

Louise Adele Gould by Augustus Saint-Gaudens at the Met

....yep, there's more....



Kandinsky at the Guggenheim....



Couple Riding

Several Circles (Einige Kreise)

Composition 8 (Komposition 8)






In the Black Square (Im schwarzen Viereck)







Mystery Sand Mosaic, by Shorty Lungkarta Tjungurrayi at The Grey Art Gallery

little dots made up most of all the paintings in this show - beautiful! each painting represented a myth/story or other cultural belief.

So Much To See!

Joanne Greenbaum , Untitled (Hollywood Squares #4), at D'amelio Terras
i've been m.i.a. for a while, but i've seen a lot of amazing work around the city. below are various gallery and museum shows. above is Joanne Greenbaum; ooh so good. she uses transparencies of color to build up or cover up her paintings. her strong and fierce movement and giant swaths of color are what i dig most.





Mark Bradford, Taking Up the Cross at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
liked the reduction of these works. there are lines of rope or thread underneath all that whiteness. only a few snippets of color and graphic forms are allowed to peep out.

Franklin Evans, 2008/2009., at Sue Scott Gallery
this opening was fun! the gallery was like an explosion of his mind. lots of different conversations going on. ideas literally all over the place. some precious others totally stepped on and ignored.

Shinique Smith, And the World Don't Stop, at Yvon Lambert
the mash up flat spaces of color, free form "script" and cut ups are a perfect harmony. all of it just bounces on the seen and says "BAM!"

Paul Signac, Opus 217. Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones, and Tints, Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890, at MoMA
seriously, i'm not sure whether i like the title or the painting more. sense of humor - i love that in art. dali was good one w/the humor. you have to see that lily his holding to understand the insanity of this painting. so precise, gaudy and mesmerizing.

Chris Ofili, Afro Margin Six at David Zwirner
love that the forms are so simple and are built up to create a complex and striking design

More Chelsea Inspiration

made it out to a few shows in chelsea this past week. lot's of great group shows. see what caught my eye below.

Meredith Dittmar, Inter-thinking at Jonathan Levine Gallery

her work is beautifully made from clay - it's hard to keep your eyes off it. i marveled at all the delicate nooks, crannies and color schemes.




Sarah Lutz, Burst at Lohin Geduld Gallery

love this for its lushness and thick, drippy, confectionate colors. like the dense, compression of space at the bottom and wide expanse above.




Robert Jack, For the Next Three Years at Lohin Geduld Gallery

these colors don't translate well here - a bit muddy, but their original acidic quality was lovely. it's made up of tiny little dots; like the simplicity and meditativeness of the piece.





Julie Evans, Umbilcumdom at McKinzie Fine Art Inc.

i've been a fan of Julie Evans for a few years and accidentally found her work at this show. i love to follow the chartreuse ribben that weaves around the other forms over and over again.

Karen Margolis, Dvitva at McKinzie Fine Art Inc.

the undulation of color and space are fantastic! she recently had some work at Deiu Donné that i regretfully missed.

2 Steps Back

ny.07.#11

i'm a little stuck right now and sometimes it helps to look at what i've done in the past. i quickly forget becuz i'm ready to move on to the next thing and try something new. but sometimes i don't know what the new is. so i go to museums, galleries and do anything else that inspires. below are some works for the past that i'm remembering.

ny.07.#36 available at Kinsey/DesForges

ny.08.#18 available at Kinsey/DesForges

ny.08.#03 available at Jen Bekman Gallery



ny.07.#33

SHOUT OUT TO BOBBY!

Bobby Lucy recently started selling his great prints on the streets of new york - just visited him yesterday! you can also find them online at RobertLucyEditions.com i love his use of color, his use of dolls and his sense of humor. he even has a blog where he posts photos of his happy collectors on the street. check him out!

Goethe's Color Theory >> Perception

i'm just beginning to read this bear. what interests me about goethe's theories is that he's interested in how we perceive color...

...the eye especially demands completeness, and seeks to eke out the color wheel in itself. a purple color suggested by yellow contains red and blue; orange, which responds to blue, is composed of yellow and red; green, uniting blue and yellow, demands red; and so thru all gradations of the most complicated combinations.

i'll continue to share more things i find interesting as my reading progresses.

Mobile Uploads

another set of photos of patterns, colors, etc that i've seen around town...and that you might soon see interpreted in my paintings.

design on a dress

same dress, different design

crazy fish decal on the window of a gristedes...i really like the color combo

another pattern/design on a piece of clothing



cover of a baby book at target



journal at kate's paperie

Summer Inspiration in Chelsea

i've been MIA for a while...vacation, life, but below are several images from a few jaunts thru chelsea so far this summer. lots of inspiration...LOTS!

Nicola López at Caren Golden Fine Art
i've been a fan of hers for a few years now and love how she intertwines her forms. it's fascinating the way she fits it all together! so sad to hear that this gallery is closing after this show.




Mark Flood at Zach Feuer Gallery
these lace paintings were very lush and oozed color. loved their messiness.




Yayoi Kusama at Gagosian
this piece is gorgeous! the subtle undulation and the intensity of the colors were hypnotic. it made me wish they had a bench in the large space.




Chris Duncan at Jeff Bailey Gallery
love the cluster of tiny, shiny and perfectly round dots in the midst of black. the line work on the form below the dots is beautiful. this group show allowed me to see some of my favorites from this gallery including: Sarah Brenneman, Will Yackulic, and Jon Rappleye




Shane Hope at Winkelman Gallery
these 'paintings' were definitely a clusterf*%k of candy for the eyes! loved that he used opensource software to create them.




Ben Tour at Joshua Liner Gallery
the small, mainly blue or grey, paintings on paper grabbed my attention immediately! sometimes you can see so much more of the artist when they work/work things out on paper. the small drops of various color were delicatly and perfectly placed.

The BS Mashup >> Phase 2

Below you'll find the next phase in Rob Bondgren and my collab. i've included the first phase photos so you can really see the transformation.

Phase 1 >> bsMashup0901a

Phase 2 >> bsMashup0901b

Phase 1 >> bsMashup0902a

Phase 2 >> bsMashup0902b

stay tuned for more!!!

20% OFF ALL PRINTS @ 20X200 !

that's right starting NOW until midnite saturday 20x200.com is having a sale on all their prints! below you'll find images and direct links to the prints i still have available. there are still a few left at the $20 and $50 price. just enter the coupon code "RIDONK" at checkout. link to my page on 20x200

The BS Mashup >> Phase 1

rob bondgren in chicago and i are collaborating on a few paintings. these photos are phase 1 of the collab. we'll be chronicling the progress and fazes on facebook and right here...so stay tuned!

KRINK !!!

MANY THANKS to Ric Santon at Parts Gallery for introducing me to the wonderful world of KRINK. really, where have i been? these have been around for a few years and i'm just beginning to play and understand how to use them. i've bought several colors of the squeeze tube variety pictured above. they come in several different tips and in pen form too. the beauty is that depending on the pressure of your squeeze, you'll get drips galore! the 2 new paintings in my previous post below have a bit of krink in them. another great boon w/the krink sponge tip squeeze bottle is that they make perfect circles....you all know how much i love da circles!!!

New Paintings Available at The Beholder

2 new small paintings are available at beholder-art.com
enjoy!

ny.09.#10
12" x 12"

ny09.#11
18" x 24"

Provisional Painting >> Wendy White

Wendy White, No Import, 2008

Provisional Painting is a great article i just read in Art in America by Raphael Rubinstein. i have always loved unfinished, rough looking paintings and the artists that are brave enough to make them. especially in recent years, when ultra perfect and smooth paintings are the norm. biased towards these types of paintings?, yes. i leave all preliminary marks, 'mistakes' (happy accidents), and outlines in my paintings. for me, it's important to see the thoughts and the process that got me to the 'finished' painting. but have i ever been truley messy and unruly?, no. but wendy white is really inspiring me to! i already started 2 new paintings. if you scroll down further into this blog, you'll see that even in the last entry some of the artwork i'm really drawn to has an engaging surface. and i love it when an artist just seems to cancel out something in their painting. just a big schmear of color to cover up, add a layer...whatever. that takes balls and i hope to grow some soon!

Stuff in Chelsea

some highlights from a recent trek thru chelsea w/ bobby lucy.

what a like about all of these is their richness in color and texture.


PABLO PICASSO - Buste, 1970 at Gagosian
this one was by far one of my favs. the orange in this image does not do it justice.
it pops even more. it was great to see his use of mottled, muted tones w/bright, vibrant colors.





ROSEMARIE FIORE - Firework Drawing #25 at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
be sure to check out the gallery website for images of her in action.





PETER SAUL - Viva la Difference at David Nolan Gallery
these are painted absolutely beautifully!
looks like airbrush - but nope...just brush





Robert Longo - Surrendering the Absolutes at Metro Pictures
these are large ass charcoal drawings!





Jeff Bark - It's Beautiful Here Isn't It? at Charles Cowles Gallery
all of his photographs are saturated w/beautiful color and most are a little disturbing.

New Paintings !!!

Just updated my website w/some new ones. enjoy!
miss-sanchez.com

Neuroaesthetics

artinfo.com

Stompin' Around Chelsea

Julie Evans, Lesson from a Guinea Hen #10 @ Julie Saul Gallery
had 4 shows i wanted to check out today in chelsea. julie evans was first on my list. these paintings are definitely more spacious than her previous ones. the image above does not do it justice - that yellow/green is more yellow/orange. but this was my favorite from the show and had to put it up. check out her blog for larger images than at the gallery's site. many of the paintings also had i bit of sparkle or pixie dust in them that was ever so subtle but a delight to discover. she strikes a fantastic balance between a very wet and loose application of paint w/very price lines, circles and dots. this color palette is also much more muted or subdued compared to her last body of work and i love it!

Kamrooz Aram, Mystical Visions and Cosmic Vibrations @ Perry Rubenstein Gallery
loved the drawings in this show! the fine, tiny detail was absurd and gorgeous. i didn't realize how thick and built up his paintings are and it was amazing to see all the blazin' color he throws down. the clouds in The New Vortex Plunges Into the Heart of the Present, had day-glo green going on that really made them pop. i think it's one of the few times i've seen someone pull off using such brash colors w/out being obnoxious.




Anne Neely, Somewhere Inbetween @ Lohin Geduld Gallery
really enjoyed the great expanses of color in her work. this one was one of my favs along w/Mudflat. the grids on either end are to me, reminiscent of paul klee.




Jeff Perrott, Cow @ Morgan Lehman Gallery
seriously, depending on what state of mind you're in when you enter this show, you could be hypnotized. the images online make the paintings (ink jet printed on canvas) clearer. you can figure out what the paintings are depicting better. the cow was fairly evident to me in the gallery but the rest of them - no clue. the gallery is small and this show would have benefited from a much larger space to back up, sit down and ponder. i think it was empty canvas, that was a total visual trip. as i approached it i lost my depth perception and totally had to check myself so i wouldn't smack up against the painting. i want that cow.

Nina Bovasso

Flowers on a walk by Nina Bovasso at BravinLee programs

this is the 2nd time i've seen her work in person and i love, love, love it. besides liking her use of bold, cheery colors with black, i enjoy looking at how these pieces are put together. there is an incredible amount of white space or maybe white lines in between each element.

The Third Mind

i planned on heading to the whitney today. got there and they were closed. no problem- just a bit further uptown is the guggenheim. the current show "the third mind" was great! above is Linda Montano's Mitchell's Death (1979). in this performance montano grieves the death of her former husband mitchell. she chants/prays, remembering phone conversations, thought patterns and all other obsessive thinking we engage in while mourning. all the while she has acupuncture needles puncturing her face. a catharsis is definitely occurring. below are other highlights for me at this show.

James Lee Byars, Untitled Object.
this is the outcome from a performance, Processional, which he performed at a zen monastary. he unfolded an accordian-style book (200" long), then brushed a single line in ink.




Paul Kos, Sound of Ice Melting
i found this piece pretty amusing! and i was little concerned about the water and all those cables! "it represents 8 microphones amplifying the silence of 2, 25lb blocks of ice melting in real time. the eletronic hissing and din of environmental noise drown out the conceptual 'silence'. to contemplate the sound of ice melting is to directly apprehend transience and contingency."




La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela, Dream House
"This new site-specific Dream House installation is a rare counterpart to the 16-year ongoing Dream House installation at 275 Church Street. Young and Zazeela characterize the Sound and Light Environment as a time installation measured by a setting of continuous frequencies in sound and light." i could have stayed in this carpeted room all day. you were totally absorbed in sound and light! definetly need to check out the ongoing installation on church street.




Jordan Belson, samadhi, film w/sound(1967)
like the dream house above, i also could have stayed in front of this video for days!

Franz Kline, Painting No.7 (1952)

another piece worth noting is Robert Irwin's, Untitled 1964-66. this painting was just briliant. from a distance it looked like somebody's 'white paintings' - you know, auster, elements nearly indiscernible. once you got right up to it, you realized the painting was made up of tiny pink and green dots. the dots were laid down in a grid and the colors became darker as they approached the center. loved it!