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Obituaries & Remembrances is a new Two Coats of Paint project dedicated to biographies of, and stories about, beloved, talented, and influential members of the art community, particularly those whose acheivements were not recognized beyond the art community when they died. If readers would like to submit to Obituaries & Remembrances, please send a note to Twocoatsofpaint@gmail.com with OBITUARY in the subject line. Don’t forget to include a link to the artist’s website.

About Two Coats of Paint: Two Coats of Paint is an NYC-based art project, that includes an award-winning art blogazine, artists residency, a podc ast, catalogue essays for painters, and other special initiatives.

About the blogazine: Launched in 2007 and nationally read, Two Coats of Paint publishes original content with an emphasis on contemporary painting and related issues. Two Coats has been sponsored by numerous museums, universities, galleries, and arts organizations including the Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum, New Art Dealers Association (NADA), School of Visual Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art, American University, and Rhode Island School of Design. In 2014 and 2016, Two Coats of Paint received prestigious Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Grants for blogging. Publisher Sharon Butler, an accomplished painter, is affiliated with the New York Academy of Art and the University of Connecticut.

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Contributing Editor and Film Critic: Jonathan Stevenson
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Recent Posts

The Blind Swimmer: Gordon Grant Fraser (December 2, 1975 – November 1, 2020)
Two Coats of Paint has recently learned of the death of Gordon Fraser, a talented artist and art blogger who penned The Blind Swimmer, of a heart attack after undergoing a series of treatments for colon cancer.
Bushwick’s Tim Gowan
Even though making art is often an experience that happens in the solitude of one’s studio, it rarely occurs in a vacuum. Artists rely on each other for support, reinforcement, inspiration, and challenge, forming communities to avoid feeling like fish out of water in this world. Tim Gowan was one […]
Siri Berg: A life in color
Siri Berg, 98, died April 8, 2020 in her home, in New York City. Born in 1921, in Stockholm, Sweden, Ms. Berg was an accomplished painter and artist of mixed-media who enjoyed a late-career renaissance in her final two decades. In recent years, her work was the subject of several […]
April Kingsley (1941-2023): Art Historian, Critic, and Curator
Written by Tom Recchio of The Provincetown Independent / An art historian, curator, scholar, and critic, April Kingsley of Wellfleet and Truro lived her life amidst art. “I wouldn’t go anyplace if there wasn’t art to see,” she once said. She explored American Abstract Expressionism, including the work of African-American […]
Cora Cohen (1943-2023)
New York-based painter Cora Cohen died at a hospice in Brooklyn on June 22 at the age of 79. As Barry Schwabsky wrote in ArtForum International reviewing her 2022 exhibition at Morgan Presents, she was “one of the most underrated painters in New York.”

Recent posts: Two Coats of Paint

Afire: Christian Petzold’s combustible feast

Afire: Christian Petzold’s combustible feast

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Instability hovers on several fronts – environmental, political, economic – and German filmmaker Christian Petzold manifests his concern about it with remarkable astuteness. For the haunting Transit (2018), he filmed characters with new-fangled accessories in black-and-white as they sought escape from a port in a nameless fascist state, seamlessly casting the shadow of Second World War trauma over the present day. In his new film Afire, which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, he zeroes in on narcissism in a time that demands community.

NYC Selected Gallery Guide: Dec 2023

NYC Selected Gallery Guide: Dec 2023

Hey galleries and artists! If you have enjoyed being included in our NYC Selected Gallery Guide and find it a helpful way to get the word out to promote your exhibitions, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Two Coats of Paint. Kick in a few bucks to support the project in 2024. If you have already contributed, thanks for your support — you’re helping to keep the conversation going.

Colin Brant’s communion with the inconstant

Colin Brant’s communion with the inconstant

Contributed by Natasha Sweeten / You might consider the title of Colin Brant’s quietly inspiring exhibition “Mountains Like Rivers,” currently on view at Platform Project Space, an invitation to a world flipped on its end: what’s inherently solid becomes liquid, what’s up is now down. You would not be entirely wrong. Indeed, in Lake Louise/Poppies, the eponymous body of water mirrors the snowy, majestic range that anchors the painting. Red and yellow poppies in the foreground form a joyous tassel punctuating the band of blue, their stems waving like the arms of children eager to be called on.