Some Current Painting Shows
There's a wealth of good painting in the New York galleries in January, and much more on the way.... Marina Adams at Salon 94 through February 22Marina Adams shows a powerful group of abstract...
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Here are a few images from my exhibition, Places To Be, at The Curator Gallery in Chelsea through February 18, 2017.STEVEN ALEXANDER: PLACES TO BEThe Curator Gallery520 W 23 St.New York, NYJanuary 11 -...
View ArticleSome Great Shows - March and April
Suzanne Caporael at Ameringer McEnery Yohe - Through April 22, 2017More on this exhibition later. Vija Celmins at Matthew Marks - Through April 22, 2017 Perl Fine at Berry Campbell - Through April 15,...
View ArticleJOAN WALTEMATH at Anita Rogers
Joan Waltemath, what happens (West 1 1,2,3,5,8...). Oil, graphite, bronze, lead, phosphorescent and florescent pigment on honeycomb aluminum panel. 37 ” x 15 9/16” Joan Waltemath, what happens (West 1...
View ArticleMAKING SPACE at MoMA
Lee Krasner, Gaea, 1966, oil on canvas, 69 x 125 in.On the third floor at MoMA, just below the magnificent Rauschenberg exhibition, is Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction. The...
View ArticleMay and June in New York
Alain Biltereyst at Jack Hanley Back Room at Cheim & Read -- Joan Mitchell, Louise Bourgeois, Ron GorchovHybrid Form at Margaret Thatcher -- Kevin Finklea (above), Frank Badur, Omar Chacon, Freddy...
View ArticleEFFORTS OF AFFECTION at Gremillion & Co
Here are a few images from my show (just closed), Efforts of Affection - A Decade of Painting at Gremillion & Co Fine Art in Houston. It afforded a rare opportunity to show a group of paintings...
View ArticleAD REINHARDT at Zwirner
Ad Reinhardt Blue Paintings at David Zwirner, just closed on October 21Ad Reinhardt, 1950, oil on canvasThis museum caliber exhibition presented a rare opportunity to see works from about a five-year...
View ArticleJOHN ZURIER at Peter Blum
John Zurier: Stars Without Distance at Peter Blum on Grand Street through November 11Like a Zen master, Zurier makes paintings that seem at once effortless, and impossible. In their spare lyricism,...
View ArticleALISON HALL at TOTAH
Alison Hall: unannounced at TOTAH on Stanton Street through December 17Alison Hall, Ancestral, 2017, oil, graphite, plaster on panel, 91 x 71 inchesAlison Hall makes paintings on panels coated with...
View ArticleJACQUELINE HUMPHRIES at Greene Naftali
Jacqueline Humphries, One Cat, 2016, oil on linen, 100 x 111 inchesJacqueline Humphries, One Cat, 2016, DetailIf you are in New York, don't miss the exhibition of new paintings by Jacqueline Humphries...
View ArticleSome Highlights from 2017
In a year that saw new atrocities every day, accumulating to become the dystopian nightmare that is our present moment, we looked to reminders of our humanity, evidence of our aliveness, for hope that...
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I am very pleased to announce that my work is now represented by Spanierman Modern, New York.http://www.spaniermanmodern.com/artistsSteven Alexander, POET XIV, 2016, oil & acrylic on canvas, 72 x...
View ArticleWILLIAM BAILEY at the Century Club By Eric Holzman
William Bailey, Morra, 2000, Oil on linen, 15 7/8 x 19 3/4 inchesFor years I‘ve seen William Bailey as a revolutionary painter. He is a most unlikely painter for these times, and surely an unlikely...
View ArticleDENNIS OPPENHEIM at Marlborough
Dennis Oppenheim, Violations, 1971-1972, installation with b&w videotape w/sound, monitor, hubcaps There's a reprise of a wonderful iconic installation by Dennis Oppenheim in his heyday, at...
View ArticleNew Works on Paper
Here are a few of the small paper pieces I've been working on lately. Steven Alexander, Untitled, 2018, oil and acrylic on paper, 10 x 8 inchesSteven Alexander, Untitled, 2018, oil and acrylic on...
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