At 4:18 PM on November 2, 2022, Carolyn Zick, the artist and renowned and pioneering art blogger, passed away at her home in New London, Connecticut.
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Recent posts: Two Coats of Paint
Raphael’s innovations and influence
Contributed by Margarett McCann / The sophisticated visual storytelling of Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520) is emphasized in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Raphael: Sublime Poetry. Figure and architectural drawings, collaborations in printmaking, tapestry, and a quarter of his painting oeuvre are accompanied by precedents he imitated and peers whose progress he surpassed. Portrait of a Young Woman with a Unicorn shows Raphael’s seamless meld of real and ideal, solid and delicate, old and new. Gothic simplicity, medieval symbolism, and Flemish detail elegantly cohere with luminous chiaroscuro, perspective, and neoclassical plasticity.
Angelo Vasta: Comfort in darkness
Contributed by Alessandrio Teoldi / Angelo Vasta’s exhibition “Luci Spente” (Lights Off) at Tappeto Volante in Tribeca centers on a simple gesture: turning down the light. Not removing it, not rejecting color, but softening its intensity. For an artist whose visual language has often featured bright, vibrant palettes, this is a bold shift of deliberate subtraction.
Amorelle Jacox’s spiritual science
Contributed by William Corwin / Depictions of spirits and monsters are often combinations of the diagrammatic and the visceral: attributes packaged in an erotic or terrifying container. Amorelle Jacox’s luminous female presences in “Mothers of Time,” now on view at Management, are unassuming and recessive beings peering out between throbbing bands of color and eerie cones of light. She populates her large-scale canvases with measurement devices – rulers, color wheels, and sundry visual and geometric rubrics that guide the viewer’s interpretation of the powers invested in each of the goddesses or muses she has invented.