Friday, February 28, 2014

Lauren Luloff at The Hole with Amanda Friedman in Conversation


By Amanda Friedman





























































































Amanda Friedman:  Yellow floor = sun floor to me. Sun room? 


Lauren Luloff:  The floor is the window!  All the light is coming in from below. It's like being in a cloud, hovering above earth in the light. I always think of my paintings that way- they are in a cloudy space in the sky. The imagery- whether abstract or figurative is very real to me- very descriptive and full of particularities. But when I imagine the scene in front of me (from the paintings) I always see it far above the ground. The situation exists in a sky-zone.

AF:  Fragments and screens?

LL:  My favorite thing is to see the patterns or drawings through the screens. The scrim enhances what is seen, excites it. The veils are tall and huge although also soft and flimsy. They make you move all around, peer through them and around. They are fun, they pull you in. Like going under the covers.

AF:  Standing in one spot, a diagonal, something mirage like appeared for me. I could see through a painting moving in the air - to another on the wall. There was a house there, I think, a house pictured in the canvas hanging on the wall. And the floor was warm. It felt a world away. And there was smiling. 

LL That's wonderful!





Lauren Luloff:  Pineapples and Teapots closes March 1st.


The Hole, 312 Bowery, New York, NY 10012          212-466-1100         theholenyc.com        



all photographs by Adam Reich
all images courtesy the artist and The Hole









Saturday, February 22, 2014

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Amanda Friedman & Alissa McKendrick





AMANDA FRIEDMAN & ALISSA MCKENDRICK:  Devil's Dust
With a work by Duncan Grant
21 February – 23 March, 2014   


                          SOUTHFIRST 60 N6th Street  Brooklyn, NY  11211  www.southfirst.org














Saturday, February 8, 2014

Melanie Parke


French Wicker, 2014, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches













Table for Sonya, 2014, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches 












Evening Still with Yellow Vase, 2014, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

















Saturday, February 1, 2014

Valerie Brennan


Terra Incognita, 2012-2014, oil and spray paint on wood, 50 x 40 cm













All The Ducks Are Down, 2013, oil and spray paint on wood, 50 x 65 cm













Tracking Down Vanilla Scent, 2013, oil on wood, 50 x 50 cm













A Sound at the Door, 2013, oil on wood, 25 x 25 cm