Jason Stopa
Ambiguity as Strength: A Conversation with John Zurier
by Jason Stopa
Zurier’s paintings treat paint as both atmospheric light and as physical material on a surface... Read more
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Beverly Fishman creates powerful abstract paintings that address technology and the pharmaceutical industry. Fishman lives and works in Detroit, where she teaches painting at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. She spent a sabbatical in New York last year, and late in the summer I had the opportunity to visit her in her studio. .. Read more
Keltie Ferris creates marks—smeared, sprayed and hand-painted—that solidify or dissolve into abstractions with a sense of perceptual depth that allows for multi-dimensional readings. The 38-year-old artist returns to Chelsea gallery Mitchell-Innes & Nash this fall for her second solo exhibition. Ferris recently spoke with A.i.A. about identity, constellations and what keeps her interest in abstraction alive... Read more
Works were hung on makeshift walls without captions, with relative unknowns appearing alongside recognized Indian masters like F.N. Souza, Paramjit Singh, Paritosh Sen and Bhupen Khakhar. This non-hierarchical approach was an effort on the part of chief curator Johny ML, fair founder Annurag Sharma and jurors K.S. Radhakrishnan, Diwan Manna, Sandhya Bordawekar and Franck Barthelemy to create what press materials called a "contemporary" experience in India... Read more
