AD REINHARDT: Blue Paintings

By Eleanor Ray

OCT 2017 | ArtSeen

Ad Reinhardt is known as an artist of extremes. While committed to abstract painting that became infamous for its austerity, he also had an expansive curiosity about art and the world. He was a vocal critic of the art market and his peers, as well as a proselytizer of art and architecture from disparate regions and periods, which he obsessively photographed for slide lectures.

AD REINHARDT: Blue Paintings

By Nathlie Provosty

OCT 2017 | ArtSeen

1943, the year Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in Tehran to discuss their war strategy, Ad Reinhardt made a deep blue and green oil painting that is the earliest work in this Zwirner Gallery exhibition.

AD REINHARDT: Blue Paintings

By Alex Bacon

OCT 2017 | ArtSeen

This presentation at David Zwirner Gallery is the largest exhibition of Ad Reinhardt’s blue paintings ever assembled, and the first dedicated to them since a seminal 1965 show at the Stable Gallery.

Sedimentations: Assemblage as Social Repair

By Osman Can Yerebakan

NOV 2018 | ArtSeen

A bleached and fractured world surrounds the artist. To organize this mess of corrosion into patterns, grids, and subdivisions is an aesthetic process that has scarcely been touched,” explained Robert Smithson in his 1968 essay “A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects.”