Gallery Press and Reviews | Spanierman Modern

AB EX RENEWED
by Piri Halasz - From the Mayor's Doorstep
"Sometimes, it seems, all that an artist really needs is the right gallery. So I conclude, anyway, from 'Frank Wimberley,' at Spanierman Modern, a vigorous and not-easily-forgotten exhibition of 19 abstract expressionist paintings, brilliantly organized by Alice Hammond (through January 14)."

Perle Fine: Still Cool After All These Years
by Jennifer Landes - The East Hampton Star
"The photographs in the Spanierman catalogue say it all. There she is with Hans Hofmann in his Provincetown, Mass., studio, then with Willem de Kooning in Springs, in a photo shoot with Ad Reinhardt, arm in arm with Lee Krasner, or standing confidently with her hand on her hip on an East Hampton beach with some of the greatest artists of the period in a 1962 Hans Namuth photograph."

Frank Bowling RA OBE Interview
by Stephanie Cotela Tanner - ArtRabbit.com
"With his recent flurry of exhibitions, Frank Bowling is taking London by storm. Having been inducted into the Royal Academy in 2005 and honoured with an OBE three years later, the artist has finally (officially) taken up his long overdue position amongst the upper echelon of the Academy's great British artists."

Journey to the Sublime
by Sam Phillips - RA Magazine (PDF)
Sam Phillips talks to Frank Bowling RA about his new works on paper.

Judith Godwin
by Gerard McCarthy - Art in America (PDF)
McCarthy says of the exhibition Judith Godwin, "This compact but nonetheless exhilarating survey covered Judtih Godwin's 60-year career with a selection of 18 oil paintings from the 1950s to the '90s."

Charlotte Park
by Robert Pincus-Witten - ARTFORUM (PDF)
On the exhibition Charlotte Park, Pincus-Witten writes, "The case of Charlotte Park is exemplary; hers was a major gift all but stifled by a happily embraced domesticity and by the critical bullying of a brutally doctrinaire art world."

Frank Bowling
by Mona Molarsky - ARTnews (PDF)
"This show was a fitting retrospective for an artist who, slowly but surely, is getting his due."

Teo González
by Kathryn M Davis - ARTnews (PDF)
"González's blues and blacks are other-worldly, something to study, like the starry sky on a summer's night."

Last Chance: Judith Godwin / Taryn Simon / Daniel Buren
by Mark Rifkin - This Week In New York
"While the holiday crowds rush to MoMA to see the outstanding “Abstract Expressionist New York,” which continues through April 25, there are several free shows in the Midtown area that are ending this week and are more than worthy of a bigger audience. The eighteen works that comprise “Judith Godwin: Paintings, 1954-2002,” at Spanierman Modern, are easily deserving of their own room in the expansive MoMA exhibit, alongside canvases by such contemporaries and colleagues of Godwin’s as Franz Kline (whose Greenwich Village brownstone she bought in 1963), Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko."

Judith Godwin
by Valerie Gladstone - CityArts
On the exhibition Judith Godwin: Paintings 1954-2002, Gladstone writes, "Judith Godwin has been an Abstract Expressionist since the heyday of the movement, never winning the attention of her more famous colleagues like Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, but producing exciting canvases that show the strong influence of architecture and dance."

Judith Godwin: Now We're Ready
by Walter Robinson - artnet Magazine
On the exhibition Judith Godwin: Paintings 1954-2002, Robinson writes, "The pictures at Spanierman carry the spirit of the New York School through to the present. They have the muscularity of Kline and Hofmann, as well as the color wingspan of Helen Frankenthaler, the jagged-edged voids of Clyfford Still and the stately architectonics of Robert Motherwell."

ART IN REVIEW-Charlotte Park
by Roberta Smith - New York Times
On the exhibition Charlotte Park, Smith writes, "It is probably too late for Charlotte Park, now over 90 and suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, to witness her ascension into the ranks of widely known Abstract Expressionists. A natural painter and gifted colorist, she is as good as several of the artists — both men and women — in the Museum of Modern Art’s current tribute to the movement, which was drawn almost entirely from its collection."

Charlotte Park at Spanierman: Refreshing, Rich, and Bold
by Jennifer Landes - The East Hampton Star
On the exhibition Charlotte Park, Landes writes, "Spanierman Modern in New York City, which has been showing her work since the mid-aughts, has held several exhibits featuring her work and has helped bring her to the attention of a national audience who has eagerly received it. Its latest installation of her paintings, from the 1950s to the mid 1980s, is richly colored and multifaceted with oils, gouaches, collage, and other artistic expressions. "

"And on 58th Street"
by Piri Halasz - From the Mayor's Doorstep
On the exhibition Frank Bowling, O.B.E., RA: Paintings 1974-2010, Halasz writes, "The 'map paintings,' with their sociopolitical overtones, are probably Bowling's best-known work, especially in England, but it is the abstract work that he has created since which to me will form the basis of his lasting fame."

ART IN REVIEW-Spray!
by Roberta Smith - New York Times
In a review of the exhibition Spray!--featuring eleven works spanning four decades of aerosol painting--the noted critic Roberta Smith pays tribute to Dan Christensen.

"Just Paint: The Art and Life of Carol Hunt"
by Rachel Morton - REGIS TODAY: The Magazine of Regis College,
Spring/Summer 2010
"Her canvases are bold. Some are colorful, others austere, but all have a power, an aggressive conviction and confidence. Hunt is mild mannered, selfeffacing with an easy laugh and a relaxed manner. Without a paintbrush in her hand, she seems almost out of place in the context of these large, bold, explosive canvases. But the art bears witness to the dynamism and ambition of this determined woman."

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