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Two Coats Resident Artist: Nichole van Beek, March 16–20 Contributed by Sharon Butler / This month, Two Coats of Paint is glad to welcome Nichole van Beek to the Residency Program, from March 16–20. For a show at the Morris N. Flecker Memorial Gallery in…

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Tappeto Volante’s rich conversations Contributed by Jonathan Agin / The fifth annual “La Banda” show at Tappeto Volante Projects in Gowanus features relatively new paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by over three dozen mostly l…

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Kate Hargrave: Unsettling and generous Contributed by Lore Heller / “MILK TEETH,” the title of Kate Hargrave’s show at Karma, implies both permanent loss and permanent gain. One gains milk teeth as a baby and loses them as adult teeth t…

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Felix Beaudry’s Malleable Boys Contributed by Bill Arning / There is something wildly compelling when an installation flips on you—reversing itself in meaning and affect if you linger more than five minutes. Felix Beaudry’s “Mal…

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Araujo, Greenberg, and Simon at Ptolemy On the occasion of their exhibition, Artist Panel, at Ptolemy, Two Coats of Paint invited Michele Araujo, Larry Greenberg, and Adam Simon to share the conversation with gallery owner Pat Reynolds t…

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NYC Selected Gallery Guide, March 2026 I was doing an artists talk with Jason Travers at 68 Prince Street Gallery in Kingston, NY, two weeks ago, and the subject of politics came up. Jason said he keeps going back to sinking ship analog…

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Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide, March 2026 Contributed by Karlyn Benson / Hudson Valley residents have been eagerly awaiting March and it’s promise of milder weather. With longer days come exciting new exhibitions throughout the regio…

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Pinkney Herbert: Unsettled Contributed by Paul Behnke / Pinkney Herbert’s exhibition “In Between” at David Lusk Gallery regards a painting less as a finished image than something unfolding in time. The title points to a plac…

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Wifredo Lam’s global reach Contributed by Margaret McCann / “When I Don’t Sleep I Dream” at the Museum of Modern Art traces the odyssey of Afro-Asian Cuban painter Wilfredo Lam (1902–1982). His 20th-century oeuvre encompasse…

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Reaching back at Ruthann Contributed by Natasha Sweeten / I thought of this quote as I viewed “Souvenir,” the current group show at Ruthann. Inspired by a poem of the same title by Edna St. Vincent Millay, the show brings …

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Jenny Lynn McNutt: Nativity of squirms figuration in ceramics as a matter of urgency rather than nostalgia. With an immediacy that heightens their corporeal impact, McNutt kneads together cultures and rituals embraced during her travels…

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Polly Shindler’s natural reverie Contributed by Lawre Stone / Known for painting interior spaces and domestic objects, Polly Shindler shifts her subject to the rural Hudson Valley landscape for her exhibition “Valley Music” at Dea…

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Two Coats Resident Artist: Stephanie McMahon, March 8-13, 2026 Contributed by Sharon Butler / This March I am delighted to welcome Stephanie McMahon to the Two Coats of Paint Residency Program. Stephanie lives and works in Alfred, New York, where she is a prof…

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Jeffrey Bishop and Mason Dowling: Worldly phantoms Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The lithely flirtatious primary elements in Jeffrey Bishop’s acrylic-and-collage Sidewinder series of screeprint-painting-collages – now on display at McKenzie F…

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“Spot On,” at 68 Prince Street Gallery in Kingston On Saturday, February 21, 2 pm. please join artist and Two Coats of Paint publisher Sharon Butler and artist Jason Travers for a conversation at 68 Prince Street Gallery in Kingston, NY. They will …

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Mitchell Kehe’s targeted irresolution Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The title of Mitchell Kehe’s solo show at 15 Orient – “Bonded by the Spirit of Doubt” – encapsulates the ambiguity and contradiction in which he traffics. Doubt …

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Barbara Owen and Olivia Baldwin On the occasion of “Slip,” Olivia Baldwin and Barbara Owen’s two-person exhibition at OVERLAP, an interesting artist-run space in Newport, RI, Two Coats of Paint invited the artis…

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Two Coats Resident Artist: Craig Drennen, February 22–27, 2026 Contributed by Sharon Butler / I’m delighted to welcome Atlanta-based artist Craig Drennen for a Two Coats of Paint Residency at the end of February. In 2008, Craig happened on Timon of Athens – th…

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Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide, February 2026 Contributed by Karlyn Benson / February’s highlights include the opening of Geary’s new location in Salisbury, Connecticut with a solo show of paintings by Alan Prazniak. On February 6,…

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Alex Kwartler: Open to the world Contributed by Shirley Irons / In a dream, I asked Alex Kwartler if his work was about the unreliability of images. God no, he yelled. “Off-Peak,” his current show at Magenta Plains, presents modes…

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Choong Sup Lim: Eastern ode to a Western city Contributed by Ben Godward / Choong Sup Lim says that he doesn’t paint his sculptures but rather finds the color in the city. This might be the most important aspect of his show “Yard” (Madan…

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NYC Selected Gallery Guide, February 2026 Contributed by Sharon Butler / It’s February and my head is already spinning. I saw a few shows yesterday and recommend a trip to 15 Orient on 72 Walker Street (enter on Cortlandt Alley) to see Mit…

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Lucas Blalock and Julia Rommel’s well-oiled machine Contributed by Jacob Patrick Brooks / Consider the hunk as a deliberate, usable form, as Julia Rommel does. Her paintings are hunks of color painted on linen – cut up, unstretched, and stapled into…

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Hedda Sterne’s infinite space Contributed by Jason Andrew / Hedda Sterne was the only woman made famous by Nina Leen’s photograph The Irascibles for Life magazine in 1951, and the group’s last surviving member when she died at …

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Anne Russinof: More than a gesture Contributed by Michael Brennan / Anne Russinof passed away a year ago at the age of 68. “Gestural Symphony” is a commanding memorial retrospective of her mostly large, emphatically gestural paintin…

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Trisha Donnelly: The real thing strange Contributed by Talia Shiroma / The drawings in Trisha Donnelly’s show at the Drawing Center are a succession of curving volumes with meticulous shading, depicting what are most aptly called not obj…

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John Kelly: The body is never abstract Contributed by Bill Arning / In the mid-1980s, great art experiences of every conceivable stripe seemed to bloom prodigiously and organically from a single club on Avenue A called the Pyramid. Out …

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Anne Wehrley Björk: Where sharks once thrived Contributed by Jonathan Agin / Formed by erosion over millions of years, Chaco Canyon was the site of the Ancestral Puebloan people’s sprawling urban center. Buildings erected there in the eleventh…

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Laura Newman: Flatness and the illusion of depth Contributed by Adam Simon / A photographer friend once asked me why painters are always talking about the space in a painting. He wanted to know what this term “space” meant. I talked about the dif…

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Peter Plagens’ portals and vortexes Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / At Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Peter Plagens’ bracing new abstract paintings don’t so much as invite you in as dare you not to enter. Each canvas consists of three ba…

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