Two Coats of Paint Conversations: Recent Episodes
Sharon Butler
Two Coats of Paint is a New York art blogazine dedicated to painting. This is an archive of the live online conversations with artists, curators, gallerists, and writers that we produce each week.
"America: Idiomerica and the Terminal Century, a conversation with with R.C. Baker and Sharon Butler"
Recorded live, Saturday, February 18, 2023, at Jennifer Baahng Gallery
A BAAHNG SPOTLIGHT Production. Produced by Jennifer Baahng Gallery / Artists Bob Baker, Editor in Chief and art critic of the Village Voice, and Two Coats publisher Sharon Butler delved into the ways their work grapples with the digital miasma, as well as what culture critic Greil Marcus famously termed “the old, weird, America.” They discussed some of their older work, which is on view in “Pitches and Scripts” at Baahng Gallery through March 11. Episode notes: "Pitches and Scripts," Spotlight Series at Jennifer Baahng Gallery; R.C. Baker's gallery webpage, Sharon Butler's gallery webpage, MoMA Refik Anadol exhibition.
Recorded live, Monday, February, 20, 2023 / A multi generational conversation between Catherine Howe and Zachary Sitrin, with host, Sharon Butler, and guests Elizabeth Riggle, Peter Dudek, Elisabeth Condon, and Janice Caswell. We discuss what it means to spend a lifetime engaged in the solitary studio practice of painting. Episode notes: Brooklyn Rail Conversation with Rob Storr; Rob Storr's show at Kingfish Gallery in Buffalo; the story of the erased DeKooning; Roberta Smith's review of the Derrick Adams exhibition at the Flag Art Foundation. Read Two Coats of Paint here.
Recorded live on Clubhouse, Monday, February, 6, 2023 / Hosted by sculptor-professor Peter Dudek, moderated by Sharon Butler. A discussion about museums, espeically the ones we haven't been to in ages. With Laurie Fendrich and Camilla Fallon.
Recorded live on Clubhouse, Monday, January 23, 2023 /Hosted by Adam Simon and Laurie Fendrich, moderated by Sharon Butler. Are contemporary artists and critics too nice about the work being made today? In an era of community-building, gratitude, and identity politics what has happened to honest opinions, harsh critique, and the scathing review? With guests Elisabeth Condon, Peter Dudek, Saul Ostrow, and Alexi Worth.
Recorded live on Clubhouse, Monday, January 2, 2023 / Moderated by painter and Two Coats of Paint Publisher Sharon Butler, hosted by sculptor-professor Peter Dudek. Listen to a live discussion about the art exhibitions we missed in 2022. Is it possible for artists to see too many exhibitions? Featuring artists-writers Laurie Fendrich, Franklin Einspruch, Patrick Neal, and painters Louise Belcourt and Catherine Howe.
A BAAHNG SPOTLIGHT Production. Produced by Jennifer Baahng Gallery / Recorded live on Saturday, October 8, 2022, at 2 pm. Noted poet and art critic Raphael Rubinstein sat down with artist and Two Coats of Paint publisher Sharon Butler to discuss “Next Moves,” Butler's solo exhibition at Jennifer Baahng Gallery in New York. In this BAAHNG SPOTLIGHT event, Rubinstein and Butler explore the nature of conjunctions, addenda, commutations, and the many ways artists navigate the passages from one body of work to the next.
Episode image courtesy of Sally Apfelbaum / Sally Apfelbuam's website / Artspace website / Artspace PS109 website / Art Republic Space website / James Turrell Roden Crater project website / Donors to Roden Crater / Sacramento Warehouse Artist Lofts information
Links:
Carolyn Zick's website
Dangerous Chunky
Carolyn's "Poets vs. Painters" List
instagram.com/carolynzick/
Chapbook Project
Seattle people and organizations: Sharon Arnold, Eva Lake, Robert Yoder, Art Dish
DIY organization to bring attention to art blogs: Art Bloggers @
Joanne Mattera's blog
New York Academy of Art
Kimberly Brooks, The New Oil Painting
The Crit Lab
"Intimacies," the exhibition we discussed that features work by Crit Lab members, including Carolyn Zick.
Jonathan Silver at Victoria Munroe Fine Art
Two Coats of Paint website
Sharon Butler's website
Two Coats of Paint /
Teri Hackett /
Steve Hicks /
Chris Moss /
Sharon Butler /
Matisse: The Red Studio /
Hansen Pole Buildings /
Garage Journal /
Shirk Pole Buildings
“Pauline Decarmo: Exit,” LABspace, 2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY. Through May 29, 2022 /Details about the event / "Matisse The Red Studio at MoMA" /Jean-Michel Basquiat / Two Coats of Paint Conversations / Follow the artists on Instagram: Julie Torres / Ellen Letcher / Sharon Butler / Pauline Decarmo
Two Coats of Paint Conversations: https://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/conversations / Paddy Johnson's website / VVkrkshop / Calvin Tomkins, "The Monumental Success of Simone Leigh," The New Yorker, March 28, 2022 / Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
Painter and arts organizer Adam Simon talks with artists Kate Teale, Jude Tallichet, Elana Herzog about how they banded together to buy a painting by Larry Greenberg, the director of Studio 10 in Bushwick, a gallery where they had all had exhibitions.
Helpful links: Adam Simon / Kate Teale / Jude Tallichet / Elana Herzog / Sharon Butler / Studio 10 in Bushwick / Four Walls / Fine Art Adoption Network / Larry Greenberg's show "Slipping Space" at Slag Gallery / $50 Stock Club for Artists
Image: Giuseppe Castiglione, View of the Grand Salon Carré in the Louvre, 1861
Painter and art writer Alexi Worth joined Sharon Butler to discuss “Nearness” his solo show on view at DC Moore through February 12. Using abstracted shape and simplified color, Alexi’s fleshy new paintings, made during the pandemic, suggest, among other things, an intimate meeting between two people, sipping wine from long stemmed glasses. Alexi shared a Top Ten list of shows to see in the galleries this month.
Helpful Links:
Two Coats of Paint / "Nearness" at DC Moore / Alexi Worth on Instagram / Tom Burckhardt at George Adams/ Amy Sillman's article about Louise Fishman in ArtForum / Interview in Bomb with Carroll Dunham about writing / Joshua Marsh at Mother Gallery / Danica Lundy at Magenta Plains / The Medieval Body at Luhring Augustine / Feminism and the Legacy of Surrealism at Thomas Erben / Rackstraw Downes at Betty Cuningham / Matt Connors at Canada / Rochelle Feinstein at Candace Madey, Bridget Donahue / Chie Fueki at DC Moore / Luka Buvoli / Brenda Goodman at Sikkema Jenkins / Rachel Rose at Gladstone / Olive Ayhens and Ezra Johnson at Platform Project Space in DUMBO / Sharon Butler
Diana Shpungin joins host Sharon Butler to discuss “Always Begin At The End” her solo installation on view at Smack Mellon through February 20. She uses an inventive drawing approach, common iconography, and found objects to address loss, memory, empathy and failure between the private and public, personal and political spheres.
Useful links:
Smack Mellon Exhibition / Diana Shpungin Studio / Two Coats of Paint
Mark Tribe joins Sharon to discuss the large-scale, data-generated landscape imagery on view in “Landscape Pictures,” his first solo show at Minus Space, his early digital work, and how he ended up painting landscapes. They touch on ecological transition, human extinction, the future of our wilderness experience, and the future of art.
Useful Links:
Minus Space / Mark Tribe's Studio / Two Coats of Paint