Archive for the “Painting” category

John Miller in Cologne

by Travis Jeppesen on June 22, 2011

Miller’s work is always defined by a certain effortlessness at crossing the cerebral with the visual. In this, he is more motivated by his subject matter than any one particular mode of expression or conceptual framework. The result is that (…)

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Rainer Fetting at the Berlinische Galerie

by Travis Jeppesen on April 24, 2011

“Buildings and walls may be erected and razed, but something about the city always stays the same. Gray, sunless Berlin with its sullen, underfed inhabitants who only come out at night. Berlin in dim, chronically underlit bars where you have (…)

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Sol LeWitt & Martin Eder in Berlin

by Travis Jeppesen on April 22, 2010

My review of the Sol LeWitt show can now be read at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art. And at Artforum, there’s a review of the Martin Eder exhibition.

George Condo in Berlin

by Travis Jeppesen on February 17, 2010

Read my review of the George Condo exhibition at Artforum.

Marion Bataillard

by Travis Jeppesen on December 9, 2009

Looking at Marion Bataillard’s paintings is like peeking into a sort of madhouse or cult compound. Her figures are not quite gruesome enough to be called grotesque, but they aren’t pretty, either, and they inevitably bear expressions of rapture, existential (…)

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British Art Now

by Travis Jeppesen on December 5, 2009

My review of the exhibition British Art Now, now online at Artforum.

Rainer Fetting

by Travis Jeppesen on November 13, 2009

My review of Rainer Fetting’s Berlin exhibition, which briefly appeared here a few days ago, is now online at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.

Dicklung & Others

by Travis Jeppesen on August 3, 2009

My new collection of poetry, Dicklung & Others, is now available for pre-order from BLATT Books. The cover painting is Basan, the Fire-Breathing Chicken by Jeremiah Palecek, who also did the images for my last collection, Poems I Wrote While (…)

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Bob Tooke @ Galerie Crystal Ball

by Travis Jeppesen on August 1, 2009

My review of Bob Tooke’s exhibition at Galerie Crystal Ball is now online at Artforum.

Stéphane Pencréac’h @ FRISCH

by Travis Jeppesen on July 28, 2009

My review of Pencréac’h’s current Berlin exhibition is now online at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.