Joel Shapiro Untitled 2006 wood, casein and wire 66.5″ x 23″ x 23″ [large detail of installation]
Perhaps not surpringly, it’s not all painting.
Cheim & Read’s brilliantly curated and brilliantly mounted friends of Soutine show, “The New Landscape/The New Still Life: Soutine and Modern Art” includes sculpture as well as painting. You may have already heard the superlatives of all the critics, so I’ll only say here that I thought this show worthy of every one of them.
Gandy Brodie Meditation on a Kosher Tag 1963 oil on canvas 71.25″ x 60″ [installation view]
Susan Rothenberg Untitled 2005 graphite and oil on paper 77.5″ x 58.75″ [installation view
Philip Guston Lamp 1979 oil on canvas 32″ x 36″ [installation view]
Louise Fishman Green’s Apogee 2005 oil on canvas 88″ x 70″ [installation view]