Critics who “have an agenda” are admonished for putting social, ideological, or political concerns ahead of honest judgments. But are judgments ever neutral? How can agendas productively heighten the stakes and impact of criticism? In Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism, twenty-five art writers and editors share stra... Continue reading
SBG joins NADA
Posted 11 August, 2023
Spencer Bronwstone Gallery is thrilled to announce that SBG is now a member of NADA. We look forward to contributing to this amazing community of dealers and art lovers. "NADA is excited to announce the addition of 24 new members to its international alliance of galleries and nonprofit ... Continue reading
Tulsa International Airport Commissions Shane Darwent for New Installation
Posted 10 August, 2023
Tulsa International Airport [TUL] announced that Shane Darwent will create a one-of-a-kind suspended art installation for the terminal, which is expected to be completed by summer 2024. With a total cost of $225,000, this public art project will be the largest investment the airport has funded for its collection. The ... Continue reading
Terminus in Two Coats of Paint
Posted 8 August, 2023
The best painting-centric guide to art galleries in NYC, Brooklyn, and Queens / This month in Brooklyn we look forward to seeing “Frances Brady, Much More Together,” a collaborative collage project created by Marta Lee and Anika Steppe at Underdonk (opens on August 5) and Barbara Friedman’s solo show “The Hyst... Continue reading
Krista Clark featured in Sculpture Magazine
Posted 20 July, 2023
Krista Clark's practice is featured in the July/August 2023 issue of Sculpture Magazine, by Rebecca Dimling Cochran. "In Krista Clark’s deft hands, the languages of architecture and sculpture collide, with line, composition, color, volume, and space all coming into play. Her works are crafted from materials ty... Continue reading
Katie Bell in The Picture, Acquavella Galleries podcast
Posted 20 February, 2023
Katie Bell with Acquavella director and curator Michael Findlay, and Robert Slifkin, Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, discussed the origins of minimalism and how, though the term is now widely understood as an artistic and aesthetic style, it was not ... Continue reading
Jeff Gabel in Two Coats of Paint
Posted 21 January, 2023
Jeff Gabel's selective report of details of a largely fabricated memory of the porous history of sporadic reflection and observation efforts with no urgency reviewed by Jonathan Stevenson in Two Coats of Paint. "For Gabel, a serious wiseacre, subtext is almost everything. It’s easy to imagine a ... Continue reading
Shane Darwent X Saint Laurent
Posted 12 October, 2022
Shane Darwent launches first phase of his commission with Saint Laurent. The work is a continuation of Darwent's Nocturne series first shown at SBG 11.21-2.22. The window display installation will is open through October 17th at Bergdorf Goodman. Continue reading
Shane Darwent awarded Joan Mitchell Fellowship
Posted 22 September, 2022
Shane Darwent and 14 artists are awarded the 2022 Joan Mitchell Fellowship. "New York, NY—September 21, 2022—The Joan Mitchell Foundation today announced the 2022 recipients of its Joan Mitchell Fellowship, which annually awards 15 artists working in the evolving fields of painting and sculpture with $60,000 each in unrestricted funds, distributed over a fi... Continue reading
Sonya Blesofsky, Artforum's Must See
Posted 14 September, 2022
Sonya Blesofsky's Some Noble Parts featured on Artforum's Must See shows list. Continue reading
Crucible, Artforum's Must See
Posted 11 August, 2022
Crucible featured on Artforum's Must See shows. Crucible, a group exhibition featuring works by Adrian Kiss, Daniel Boccato, Charlotte G. Chin Greene, Jane South, Lina McGinn, Mira Dayal, Trevor King, Viktor Timofeev, and Zachary White. Continue reading
Jule Korneffel in the Brooklyn Rail, Art Seen
Posted 1 April, 2022
Jule Korneffel's Here comes the night reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail's Art Seen, by Andrew Shea. "With Here comes the night, an exhibition of eight acrylic paintings now at Spencer Brownstone, Jule Korneffel declares a similar infatuation with twilight atmosphere. The gallery’s press release states that in... Continue reading
Jule Korneffel in Hyperallergic
Posted 13 March, 2022
Jule Korneffel's second solo exhibition with the gallery, Here comes the night, reviewed by John Yau on Hyperallergic: The Pleasures of Slow Looking. "Initially inspired by Mary Heilmann’s seemingly casual approach to abstraction, Jule Korneffel has moved steadily deeper into her own territory. In her debut ex... Continue reading
Shane Darwent, Sun Smoke, in the NYTimes
Posted 27 January, 2022
Shane Darwent's "Sun Smoke" featured in the NYTImes "What to See in NYC Galleries Right Now." Blake Gopnik writes: "They work very nicely as exercises in shape and composition that cleverly deploy, and recast, a humble material normally found along city streets. But ... Continue reading
New Museum Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone, in the New York Times
Posted 4 November, 2021
The 2021 New Museum Triennial featuring work by Krista Clark in the NYTimes, "New Museum Triennial Explores the Hidden Strengths of Soft Power" by Holland Cotter. "The New Museum’s fifth Triennial exhibition, titled “Soft Water Hard Stone,” is largely a product of lockdown. Much of the wo... Continue reading
A Closer Look, at Spencer Brownstone Gallery, on Two Coats of Paint
Posted 16 August, 2021
SBG's summer group show, Honoring the Dog-Legging Horizon reviewed by Jacob Patrick Brooks on Two Coats of Paint. "Contributed by Jacob Patrick Brooks / As you walk into “Honoring the Dog-Legging Horizon” at Spencer Brownstone Gallery, something feels off. The sense is vague at first, but it becomes clea... Continue reading