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Jennifer Bartlett at Locks Gallery, Philadelphia

Originally published in Art in America’s December 2015 issue. â—Šâ—Š It is challenging to choose terms to describe the works in Jennifer Bartlett’s recent show at Locks, titled “Hospital.” We are told in press material that the show’s 10 oil paintings, all 54 inches square and made in 2012, are […]

About Anthony Miler

Originally written for Art 3 Gallery. â—Šâ—Š ANTHONY MILER (American, b. 1982 in Toledo, Ohio, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) Anthony Miler is as much a painter of the human subject as he is of its unruly tendencies, which he denotes with jarring swathes of color, jagged lines, and […]

Ben Berlow at Rawson Projects

Originally published in Hyperallergic. â—Šâ—Š Rawson Projects is a miraculously bright spot in the neighborhood of Greenpoint, where many first-floor businesses are still in repair after Hurricane Sandy. Inside the gallery, Ben Berlow’s show of new drawings seems timely and thoughtful in its intimacy and sympathy for weathered materials. Each […]

Anne-Lise Coste Between Painting and Text

Originally published in  ArtLog. ◊◊ Last Thursday the French New York-based artist Anne-Lise Coste visited toomer labzda to give a talk about m, l, e, her latest body of work on display at the young Lower East Side gallery. For the exhibition, forty-eight small and medium-sized canvases filled two walls of the gallery space […]