Art, Reviews Patrick Zapien Art, Reviews Patrick Zapien

Rebecca Morris, “#34,” at Regen Projects

Rebecca Morris’s current show at Regen Projects, titled simply #34, after its place in the sequence of solo shows that constitutes the artist’s career evinces a painter who, having reached a certain stage of maturity, looks to take stock of the work she’s produced. How does it reflect her understanding of painting? What has held up and what is yet to convince?

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Essays, Criticism Gabriel Almeida Essays, Criticism Gabriel Almeida

A Farewell to Carmen Herrera

The space of Herrera’s paintings is not the real space we “inhabit” in the gallery or otherwise, but rather the illusory world of images and vision. Hers is the dream ground which, for over hundreds of years, artists have used to tell us stories, to perpetuate the likeness of people and landscapes, or reflect their feelings and visions materialized in objects.

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