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March 15, 2019, 4:37pm

Personal Stars: Maia Cruz Palileo at Monique Meloche Gallery

She has finally come, born across centuries and oceans and the yawning gaps of the pied world hewn for us and by us from the flesh and bone of the Earth, across the ragged expanse—flesh hanging like foliage, necrotic, mycological and un-healing as the hearts of men (men especially, here, not “men” as the priapic stand-in for all humankind, which is a fucked up way to think and really truly indicative of the kind of men we are being dealt with here, men who happen upon a glorious verdant chain drawn across the vicious expanse which hides in it the horrors of our world, the planet's calid sacred heart, the shifting red, the immolating ring born on the Jovian finger of the true ruler who we have betrayed, just like we're betraying each other, or more specifically in this case these men are betraying each other), the men whose claret-caked hands have driven the bayonet, twist the aperture far beyond the fibrin, wipe clean the entrails and drive forward again—and she has freed, has excised, has extricated the men's targets, with a deific scalpel, debridement as deliverance, from the burdens of white men, from the alien words which fall hard, knocking teeth over like tombstones—cultural vandalism!, vandalism-cum-conquest, petty and political, in the sense of all structures being re-sorted, the scaffold a literal skeleton—as they drop like a bird kill; has cut them free of the white cloth which is the funeral veil of their own humanity, the very backdrop to the cruel slavery of scare quote science before which they pose dead on and in profile, the twin portraits of prisoners and objects, and placed them instead in the tabula rasa of a sympathetic and empathetic framer …

Listed under: Chicago, NAP Artists on View, Review

Tagged as: Maia Cruz Palileo, monique meloche, Gallery, Review, Chicago, B. David Zarley

December 07, 2018, 12:35pm

New American Paintings Alumni Take Over NADA Miami

NAP is still soaking up the sun at Art Week Miami. First, we took a trip to see the 20 NAP Alumni taking over UNTITLED Miami, now we roll on over to NADA Miami and share 17 NAP Alumni and stand-out stars. Keep reading for the booths you shouldn't miss:

1. Anthony Iacono (MFA #129)
Marinaro Gallery | Booth #1.07

Cap
2018
acrylic on cut and collaged paper
24 x 18 inches

Image courtesy of Marinaro Gallery

Listed under: Art Fairs, Miami, NAP Artists on View

December 05, 2018, 12:09am

New American Paintings Alumni Take Over UNTITLED Miami

It’s that time of year again- Art Week Miami is upon us. New American Paintings is trading in our winter coats for flip flops and jetting off to UNTITLED Miami. Come with us as we see friends of past and present, starting with the 20 NAP Alumni booths you don’t want to miss:

1. Alex Jackson (Midwest #119)
Jenkins Johnson Gallery | Booth #D22

Trance Glance
2018
oil on panel
24 x 20 inches

Image courtesy of Jenkins Johnson Gallery

Listed under: Art Fairs, Miami, Must-See, NAP Artists on View

November 16, 2018, 4:54pm

NAP Artist on View: Anthony Palocci Jr.

New American Paintings alum Anthony Palocci Jr. (Northeast #104 and #134) on view at EXCHANGE BERLIN with SEASON. EXCHANGE BERLIN is an artist/curator focused presentation organized by Sluice, London, focusing in collaborative and alternative exhibition methods, jointly exploring the potential of international engagement in localized projects.

EXCHANGE BERLIN
November 16 - November 18, 2018

For more information please visit:

SEASON
206 679 0706

Anthony Palocci Jr.
Untitled (Pencil Stub)
2018
gouache on paper
11 x 14 inches

photo courtesy of SEASON

Listed under: Art Fairs, NAP Artists on View

Tagged as: NAP Artist on View, Anthony Palocci Jr., EXCHANGE BERLIN, Season, Sluice

October 25, 2018, 2:11pm

NAP Artist on View: Annie Lapin

New American Paintings alum Annie Lapin (Pacific Coast #91) on view at Miles McEnery Gallery.

ANNIE LAPIN
October 11 - November 10, 2018

For more information please visit:

Miles McEnery Gallery
525 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
212 445 0051

Annie Lapin
Art of Heads and Hands
2018
oil, oil stick, vinyl paint, acrylic and charcoal on linen
72 x 96 inches

photo courtesy of Miles McEnery Gallery

Listed under: NAP Artists on View, New York

Tagged as: Annie Lapin, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NAP Artist on View

October 17, 2018, 12:05pm

FIAC PARIS 2018: Publisher Steven Zevitas Selects His Favorite Paintings

FIAC (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain) returns to the Grand Palais for it's 45th edition this week. The modern/contemporary art fair welcomes galleries from 25 different countries to participate in this year's iteration. New American Paintings Publisher and Editor in Chief, Steven Zevitas, lets us know which works are on his radar and which works you just can't miss:

FIAC (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain)

October 18 - October 21, 2018

GRAND PALAIS
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris

Ambera Wellmann

Homologous

2018

oil and acrylic on linen

92 x 96 cm

Courtesy of Lulu

Listed under: Art Fairs

October 12, 2018, 3:56pm

Crushing the Can: Wendy White

Oh!,my good fucking God can you hear it?, that low sounds like harnessed thunder, that rumble of plates and paradigms being pushed, the trembling, the shuddering, heaven-shaking, deity-quaking--because He is hiding—kraken's roar of an engine, an engine of creation through destruction, God's Own 1972 Plymouth Scamp column cracked and with the proper hand finally at the wheel, stepping down, stepping hard with all the driver's got, dropping that pedal like a guillotine and shredding denim and the very fabric of time and space, ripping loud and fast though an amalgamation of the decades of the American man, the formative years when the whole bloody disgusting thing, the thing which we're witnessing the apex and nadir both of now—an extinction boom, the rage-filled cry of something mortally wounded, the eyetooth corner, the coiled snake striking forth from the fly, the death rattle, please let if be the death rattle!—this hypermacho, alpha-male, dick-in-one-hand, beer-and-throat in the other toxic masculinity, and she's crushing that can now;

Listed under: Chicago, NAP Artists on View, Review

Tagged as: Review, Wendy White, Chicago, ANDREW RAFACZ, B. David Zarley

October 11, 2018, 5:27pm

NAP Artist on View: Taravat Talepasand

New American Paintings alum Taravat Talepasand (Pacific Coast #43 and #79, MFA Annual 2007) is featured in Bay Area Now 8, the Yerba Buena Center For the Arts' triennial featuring the top artists, architects, and designers in the Bay Area.

Bay Area Now 8
September 7, 2018 - March 24, 2019

For more information please visit:

YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
701 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
415 978 2700

Taravat Talepasand
Trump Runner, Made in Iran
2018
cotton tapestry, made in Iran
108 x 20 inches

photo courtesy of the artist

Listed under: Must-See, NAP Artists on View, Pacific Coast, San Francisco

Tagged as: NAP Artist on View, Taravat Talepasand, San Francisco, Pacific Coast

September 29, 2018, 12:10am

NEW AMERICAN PAINTINGS ALUMNI TAKE OVER EXPO CHICAGO: 16 Booths You Can't Miss

New American Paintings heads to the Windy City this week to explore Expo Chicago. Here's your first look at the 16 NAP alumni booths you just can't miss.

1.Amir H Fallah (Pacific Coast #91) at Shulamit Nazarian