Mark Bradford Leaves Sikkema Jenkins
The Los Angeles–based painter Mark Bradford has parted ways with Sikkema Jenkins & Co. after nine years with the Chelsea gallery. Read More
The Los Angeles–based painter Mark Bradford has parted ways with Sikkema Jenkins & Co. after nine years with the Chelsea gallery. Read More
The two best painting shows in New York right now, the superb “Picasso Black and White” at the Guggenheim and the convert-making “Wade Guyton OS” at the Whitney are exemplary of distinct conceptions of painting—there’s the inexhaustibly inventive, emotionally charged Modernist, all eros and thanatos, and, a bit further downtown, appropriately, the cool, cunning techno-formalist, launching surprise attacks on painting’s past.
But both shows are distinctly grayscale affairs, and as such are likely to put you in a mood for color. Luckily, sprawling canvases by two ace mid-career colorists, Jules de Balincourt and Mark Bradford, appeared in galleries this past weekend, just before Hurricane Sandy made landfall. Read More
