Artnet

Beyond ‘The Rose’: A New Monograph Shines a Light on Abstract Expressionist Jay DeFeo’s Unseen Photography

Jay DeFeo barely took any photos of her hefty one-ton painting, The Rose (1958-66), during the seven years she spent layering it with inches of impasto and chiseling it. She may have forever regretted ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican

Camera obscura: "Women of Abstract Expressionism"

A famous 1950 photograph of the painter Jackson Pollock broadcasts an unwitting message. Pollock’s gleaming head commands the viewer’s eye, his brow furrowed in concentration; his body — frozen in ...
Artnet

London’s Royal Academy of Arts to Stage UK’s First Survey of Abstract Expressionism in Six Decades

This coming fall London’s Royal Academy of Arts will put on the UK’s first survey dedicated to Abstract Expressionism in almost six decades. The much anticipated exhibition is curated by an authority ...
Tampa Bay Times

What's happening in art: Theo Wujcik at MFA, abstract expressionism at TMA, photography at the James Museum

Tampa Bay's art scene lost a local icon five years ago in Theo Wujcik. The prolific artist was a professor at the University of South Florida and a master printmaker at Graphicstudio. His art was ...
Hyperallergic

Sexism and the Canon: Three Female Artists Reflect on 'Women of Abstract Expressionism'

DENVER — The paintings in Women of Abstract Expressionism at the Denver Art Museum are rich with emotion, monumental in scale, and totally original. Trine Bumiller: At Rhode Island School of Design I ...