Molly Warnock

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François Rouan François Rouan’s solo exhibition at Templon spans six decades of his "tressage" technique, weaving multiple compositions into layered abstract surfaces.

For this month's @artforum.com, I reviewed François Rouan's first solo show with Templon New York: www.artforum.com/events/franc...

Taking in Clyfford Still's PH-247, 1951, affectionately known as "Big Blue," for the Clyfford Still Catalogue Raisonné. #clyffordstill #abstractexpressionism #catalogueraisonné

In the original French: "Je songe à cette armée de fuyards aux appétits de dictature que reverront peut-être au pouvoir, dans cet oublieux pays, ceux qui survivront à ce temps d'algèbre damné."

René Char, Feuillets d'Hypnos, 1946, largely written while commanding a rural guerilla unit in the French Resistance: "I think of that army of deserters, hungry for dictatorship, whom those who survive the Faustian algebra of these times will perhaps see back in power in this mindless country."

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Wanda Pimentel, Involvement Series, 1968, vinyl on canvas, 130 × 98 cm (Art Institute of Chicago). Pimentel: “ I think my issues are the issues of our time: the lack of perspective for people, their alienation. The saddest thing is for people to be dominated by things.”

If you see this repost with something red from your gallery

Kate Shepherd, Party Over, Red, 2024, oil and enamel on panel, 52 x 46 in (132.1 x 116.8 cm)

THE EXPANSE “ROTHKO IS A WATERCOLORIST.” The typewritten note in Clyfford Still’s unpublished diary, undated but recorded no earlier than 1961, appears as if graven into a largely blank page.1 It is clearly meant...

Here's my take for @artforum.com

A few close details of Mark Rothko watercolors at the NGA in D.C. this time last year. I loved this show.

François Rouan, Mauve, rose et vert, 1970, oil on braided canvases, 1970, 202 × 150 cm. On view at Templon, New York, through March 1.

Great review!

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Sylvia Plimack Mangold Astoundingly, three decades have passed since the painter’s last museum survey, held at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (now the Buffalo AKG Museum) in 1994.

For this month's Artforum, I reviewed the superb Sylvia Plimack Mangold exhibition at Craig Starr Gallery, New York (through March 8). I cannot emphasize too strongly how much I yearn to see a full retrospective.

Writing about Yves Klein's sculpture for an upcoming talk in Nice. I've always liked this pairing at the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation in Los Angeles: Klein's Victory of Samothrace, 1962, and Kenneth Noland's Across, 1964.

Gorgeous small-format paintings by Alison Hall on view at Pazo Fine Art, D.C., through March 15. All are oil, graphite, and plaster on panel, 12 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches.

That's a great book! The quote I posted is from p. 128.

Still thinking about the Julije Knifer exhibition recently at Frank Elbaz, Paris. I like Knifer's 1983 description of his meanders: "I did not paint to have these paintings serve someone else, these paintings served me ... My painting is, in a sense, a way of behaving."

Last days for "Huguette Caland, les années parisiennes (1970-1987)," at Mennour, Paris, through January 25. This is Guerre Incivile, 1981 (oil on linen, 155 x 155 cm / 61 x 61 in). A great painter and a great show.

There's plenty more in the archives.

I'm writing about this right now--for the Clyfford Still catalogue raisonné!

One year ago today: Installing "Simon Hantaï: Unfolding" at Timothy Taylor, New York.

Paul Wallach, Truth That, 2019 (wood, lead, canvas, cloth, paint, 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 x 4 inches). Almost a mini-Morellet from the front, but full of surprises. At Fergus McCaffrey, New York, through March 1.

Beautiful Kate Shepherd watercolors in her must-see show at Galerie Lelong, New York. Through February 8.

Iria Leino Finnish artist Iria Leino (1932–2022) completed a degree at Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts in 1955 and subsequently relocated to Paris, where she enjoyed a successful career as a fashion model.

Here's my review of the Harper's show:

Following the great Iria Leino show at Harper's Chelsea 512, I had the pleasure of visiting the loft in SoHo where the Finnish-born painter lived and worked from the 1960s until her death in 2022. A fascinating time capsule, stuffed to the gills with work from all phases of her New York career.

Snapped this pic of @sharonbutler.bsky.social and Chris Martin deep in discussion the other day before Chris's opening at Timothy Taylor. Sorry to pap you Sharon but I love this image :)

From the archives: Patricia Still on behalf of Clyfford, upon an invitation to participate in a traveling exhibition organized by the US Information Agency.

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