DECEMBER 18, 2017 IN ESSAYS & INTERVIEWS, MARKUS LINNENBRINK, NEWS BY MANON MARKUS LINNENBRINK Interview by Frédéric Caillard, November 2017   Can you tell us about the cuts, those thick layered paintings into which you literarily dig trenches? Yes, the cuts make up the latest body of work that I introduced in the last two years. They are similar to my drill pieces; it is […]

Posted on 29 November 2017. by Julia Couzens   If anyone understands the hugely plastic and seductive physicality of paint, it is Cornelia Schulz.  Troweled slags of cadmium yellow, puckered splots of minty green, and regressive planks of flat black collide, slip, slide, splat, and skid into the chunky-luscious concoctions that constitute Schulz’s new paintings […]

Finley and Noda: Imagination flourishes with small-scale artwork By Kimberly Chun   Published 7:31 pm, Wednesday, May 20, 2015          Small-scale realms — both natural and strange, avian and alien-like — unite two exhibits at Spun Smoke. One focuses on San Francisco artist Jeanne C. Finley’s video work “Protocol,” which captures the birth of […]

New Exhibits Open at Tarble Arts Center Nov 16, 2017 The Tarble Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University announces its exhibit openings on Nov. 18: Jiha Moon: “Double Welcome, Most Everyone’s Mad Here,” “Living Room” and “In All Around I See.” Featured in the main gallery, Jiha Moon: “Double Welcome, Most Everyone’s Mad Here” is […]

Paint on its own terms. Cornelia Schulz is a venerated abstract artist who taught at UC Davis for three decades, but you wouldn’t know her age from looking at her recent paintings. Sarcastically gloppy and garishly colorful, they are all brag and bluster — grand gesture, stunted by canvases less than a foot square. They […]

‘Last Words’ among two poignant Julia Couzens art shows BY VICTORIA DALKEY Bee Art Correspondent September 25, 2017 07:48 PM Updated September 26, 2017 01:44 PM It’s not surprising that Julia Couzens, a fine writer whose incisive art reviews appear occasionally in The Bee, should choose words as the foundation for “Last Words,” her elegiac […]