The Modern Art Notes Podcast

Terry Winters, Cricket Music, 2010.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Terry Winters, who is showing collages and eleven new paintings at New York’s Matthew Marks Gallery. The exhibition is on view through April 14.

Winters is arguably the most influential painter of his generation. His interest in systems and networks, biological and otherwise, is carried forward in the work of Julie Mehretu, Mark Bradford, Matthew Ritchie and plenty more. Winters was the subject of a Lisa Phillips-curated mid-career survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1992, and in 2001 Nan Rosenthal organized a survey of his prints for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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The art: Shirin Neshat, Soliloquy Series (Figure in Front of Steps), 1999.

The news: “Women and Islam, A Debate with Human Rights Watch,” featuring numerous writers at the New York Review of Books blog.

The source: The film installation Soliloquy (1999) related to the photograph above is in the collection of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Recommended: Shirin Neshat was the guest on Episode 11 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast.

Dan Flavin, one (to William of Ockham), 1963; one (to William of Ockham), 1963; the diagonal of personal ecstasy, 1963; the gold diagonal (completed), 1963.

On the second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast, I talk with Isabelle Dervaux, the curator of modern and contemporary drawings at New York’s Morgan Library. Dervaux’s new show is a survey of Dan Flavin’s drawings. It’s on view through July 1. In our conversation we discuss the origins of Flavin’s diagonals, the 3x5 notebooks he carried everywhere and his personal collection of drawings.

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Jennifer Steinkamp, Moth 5, 2012. Computer-generated light projection, approximately 7.5-by-10 feet.

Steinkamp was the guest on Episode Four of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. She has a new show up now at ACME gallery in Los Angeles. Sharon Mizota reviewed the show for the Los Angeles Times. Work from the same series goes on view at Philadelphia’s Fabric Workshop and Museum next weekend. (In a related story, the FWM has an amazing lineup of exhibitions opening next weekend, including work by Mark Bradford, Pae White and Steinkamp.)

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Terry Winters, Branching Structures, 1996. Collection of The Broad Art Foundation, 1996.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Terry Winters, who is showing collages and eleven new paintings at New York’s Matthew Marks Gallery. The exhibition is on view through April 14.

Winters is arguably the most influential painter of his generation. His interest in systems and networks, biological and otherwise, is carried forward in the work of Julie Mehretu, Mark Bradford, Matthew Ritchie and plenty more. Winters was the subject of a Lisa Phillips-curated mid-career survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1992, and in 2001 Nan Rosenthal organized a survey of his prints for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly, click here or click on the painting above. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. You can see more images of artworks discussed on the show on Modern Art Notes.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Terry Winters, who is showing collages and eleven new paintings at New York’s Matthew Marks Gallery. The exhibition is on view through April 14.

Winters is arguably the most influential painter of his generation. His interest in systems and networks, biological and otherwise, is carried forward in the work of Julie Mehretu, Mark Bradford, Matthew Ritchie and plenty more. Winters was the subject of a Lisa Phillips-curated mid-career survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1992, and in 2001 Nan Rosenthal organized a survey of his prints for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. You can see images of artworks discussed on the show here.

On the program, Winters and I discuss:

• The evolution of his palette over the years and how he comes to color;
• How his new country home and studio in Columbia County, New York impacts his work;
• The importance of printmaking to his overall practice, and how his intense, career-long focus on that medium informs the way he makes paintings; and
• Why he chose to exhibit collages from his notebook with his new paintings, the first time he’s done so in the United States.

During the course of the program I mentioned that Matthew Marks has a particularly good artist-page for Winters, a page that features pretty much all of the work he’s shown at the gallery. You can find it here.

In the show’s second segment, I talk with Isabelle Dervaux, the curator of modern and contemporary drawings at New York’s Morgan Library. Dervaux’s new show is a survey of Dan Flavin’s drawings. It’s on view through July 1. In our conversation we discuss the origins of Flavin’s diagonals, the 3x5 notebooks he carried everywhere and his personal collection of drawings.

Doug Wheeler, SA MI 75 DZ NY 12, 2012.

Today on Modern Art Notes: I review Doug Wheeler’s new ‘infinity enivornment,’ which is on view now at New York’s David Zwirner gallery. Short version: Standing inside it was one of the most awesome experiences I’ve had.

Wheeler is the guest on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast. To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. For images of the works discussed on this week’s program, click here.

Doug Wheeler, Eindhoven, Enviornmental Light Installation, 1969. Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington. Note: That’s an actual, unaltered photograph of an actual room-sized Wheeler installation. No digital trickery. That’s what it looks like.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Doug Wheeler, one of the pioneers of light-and-space art. So far as I know, this week’s show is just the third one-on-one interview Wheeler has ever given.

A Wheeler ‘infinity environment’ installation is on view now at Chelsea’s David Zwirner gallery, where visitors have routinely waited in line for an hour (and often longer) to see the piece. A major Wheeler was just acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, which featured Wheeler prominently in its light-and-space survey “Phenomenal.” The museum’s new Wheeler will be on view in downtown San Diego until August. 

To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. For images of the works discussed on this week’s program, click here.