Painting

Fan Mail: Andrew Fish

Andrew Fish. Bartender, 2013; oil on canvas; 30 x 40 in. Courtesy of the artist.

Boston-based painter Andrew Fish is working out solutions—proofs perhaps—to a complex problem we all deal with on some level, every day: what is the difference between an analog and a digital visual experience? Fish, interestingly, has chosen painting—arguably the most antiquated form of visual production—to seek answers to this query. His choice of medium confronts the proliferation of digital image making and publishing made possible[…..]

Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art at Contemporary Jewish Museum

Nam June Paik, TV Buddha

In an era when organized religion is losing its hold on the industrialized world, it may seem strange that curators would want to reengage with spirituality when considering Western Modernism of the past one hundred years. Stranger still that a museum focused on exploring the contemporary shape of Jewish life would take an interest in exhibiting work by practicing Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, and New Age[…..]

Fan Mail: Gillian Willans

Mise-en-scene: Prelude, 2013; acrylic, oil on canvas; 11 x 14 in. Courtesy of the Artist and Telephone Booth Gallery, Toronto.

For this edition of Fan Mail, artist Gillian Willans of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada has been selected from our commendable reader submissions. Two artists are featured each month—the next one could be you! If you would like to be considered, please submit your website link to info@dailyserving.com with “Fan Mail” in the subject line. Gillian Willans’s series Mise-en-scène: The Paris Suite is on view at the Telephone Booth Gallery in Toronto,[…..]

Keith Haring: The Political Line at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Centquatre

Keith Haring. Unfinished Painting, 1989; acrylic on canvas; 100 x 100 cm. Courtesy of Keith Haring Foundation.

Shotgun Reviews are an open forum to which we invite the international art community to contribute timely, short format responses (250–400 words) to an exhibition or event. If you are interested in submitting a Shotgun Review, please follow this link for more information. In this Shotgun Review, Kanika Anand reviews Keith Haring: The Political Line at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Centquatre. Cohosted by Musée d’Art Moderne[…..]

Maria Lassnig at Capitain Petzel

Maria Lassnig. o.T., (2012), Oil on canvas, 205 x 158 cm. Courtesy of Capitain Petzel, Berlin. Photo: Jens Ziehe.

Maria Lassnig’s current solo exhibition at Capitain Petzel in Berlin takes a quick and investigatory look at her body-awareness paintings. At first glance, Lassnig’s works look crass. She seems to care little for surfaces and even less for her palette: lumpy, grayish figures lie casually upon the surface of the canvas, craftsmanship is squandered, and colors are straight out of the tube. However, at the back of[…..]

Roger Shimomura: Minidoka on My Mind

Roger Shimomura. Classmates, 2007;

Today we welcome a new feature to Daily Serving: Shotgun Reviews! Shotgun Reviews are an open forum where we invite the international art community to contribute timely, short format responses (250-400 words) to an exhibition or event. If you are interested in submitting a Shotgun Review, please click this link for more information. Roger Shimomura: Minidoka on My Mind at Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, by Satri[…..]

Aesthetics of the Spectacle

Kate Bonner

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into representation. —Guy Dubord, Society of the Spectacle, 1967 The Bay Area is the social media capital of the world; with headquarters for Google, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, it is no surprise that everywhere you go, people are[…..]