Tag Archives: drawing

Reading a Drawing Without Labels

Posted on November 25, 2014 by melissa

published Nov. 12,2014 in Hyperallergic Dan Miller “Untitled (blue ‘ON’ and yellow with graphite)” (2011), acrylic and graphite on paper (all images courtesy Ricco Maresca Gallery) Dan Miller has created some of the most glorious work that I’ve seen in … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged Autisim, Creative Growth, Dan Miller, drawing, Melissa Stern, mixed media, Ricco Maresca Gallery, Self-Taught artist | Leave a comment

Hitting History Hard

Posted on February 19, 2014 by melissa

by MELISSA Feb 18, 2014 • Frohawk Two Feathers brings revolution to art and politics Frohawk Two Feathers is re-writing American history.  In his current exhibition at Morgan Lehman Gallery, “Heartbreaking and Shit, But That’s the Globe. The Battle of … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged American History, drawing, Frohawk Two-Feathers, Melissa Stern, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Works on Paper | Leave a comment

Working Class Art Hero

Posted on January 13, 2014 by melissa

The New York Press- Jan. 13, 2014 Spiegelman’s comix and more in Jewish Museum exhibition Much has been written about Maus, Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel that recounts the harrowing tale of Spiegelman’s parents’ experience and survival in Auschwitz. … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged Art Spiegelman, drawing, Garbage Pai; Kids, Garbage Pail Kids, High School of Art & Design, High School of Art and Design, Jewish Museum, Little Lit, Maus, New York City, New Yorker, Pulitzer Prize, The New Yorker | Leave a comment

The Haunting and Lovely World of Benjamin Jones

Posted on June 29, 2013 by melissa

Posted on July 15, 2012 BENJAMIN JONES IS an artist who lives and works within a Universe of his own making. His work functions within the perfectly rational rules that he has created. Jones makes exquisite drawings that are both … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged Atlanta GA., Barbara Archer Gallery, Benjamin Jones, drawing, graphite, Hurricane Katrina, oustder artists | 2 Comments

Further Thoughts on the Art of Melissa Stern

Posted on January 23, 2013 by melissa

Paul J. Karlstrom 19 January 2013 On a recent trip to New York my wife and I managed to see several exhibitions during what was primarily a family Christmas week in Brooklyn. Although we were staying … Continue reading →

Posted in Rants and Raves | Tagged Ann Karlstom, Archives of American Art, ceramic sculpture, Children's Museum of the Arts, drawing, Freud, Images of childhood, Melissa Stern, New York Cirt Artist, Oral Histories, outsider art, Paul J. Karlstrom, Peter Selz, QR codes, San Francisco, sculpture, smartphone technology, Smithsonian | 2 Comments

Wagging the Dog

Posted on October 5, 2012 by melissa

The New York Press- Oct 3, 2012 • WEGMAN THROWS SINCERITY A BONE Irony is one the most overused conceits in contemporary art. So much so that the term “ironic hipster” has become part of our current lexicon. I’m tired … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged Art of the 1970's, drawing, Hipster art, irony, Man Ray, New York Artists, Photography, Salon94 Freemans, video, William Wegman | 2 Comments

It All Adds Up…..

Posted on May 25, 2012 by melissa

This group of drawings, called NEW MATH, is visual therapy for my angst-ridden relationship with numbers. Remember how bewildering it was when they introduced “New Math” in school? I never got over wondering what happened to “Old Math.” Was it … Continue reading →

Posted in Rants and Raves | Tagged anxiety, black humor, collage, drawing, encaustic, humor, Math, Mathematics, New Math, numbers, Old Math | 2 Comments