“If a painting doesn’t have the right seasoning, it has to wait.”
Grill’s diaphanous brushstrokes and floating forms express a world in a state of unavoidable change.
These stunning paintings from Clare Grill excite movement with each brushstroke. The dull color palette and aged appearance of each piece suggests they might be a fragment to an ancient artifact; a…
Not that long ago, women were valued for not just their beauty, but their “accomplishments”. That term didn’t refer to earning a promotion or college degree at the time, but show…
(via Clare Grill : Touch’d Lustre | Zieher Smith & Horton)
Grill’s diaphanous brushstrokes and floating forms express a world in a state of unavoidable change.
It might seem counter-intuitive to begin a review of an abstract painting show by discussing realism. Especially now, when abstract painting is everywhere, from the Museum of Modern Art’s contentious survey The Forever Now, to artist-run spaces in Brooklyn, and the white cube galleries of the Lower East Side.
Not that long ago, women were valued for not just their beauty, but their “accomplishments”. That term didn’t refer to earning a promotion or college degree at the time, but show…
“If a painting doesn’t have the right seasoning, it has to wait.”
Grill’s diaphanous brushstrokes and floating forms express a world in a state of unavoidable change.
“If a painting doesn’t have the right seasoning, it has to wait.”
“If a painting doesn’t have the right seasoning, it has to wait.”
“If a painting doesn’t have the right seasoning, it has to wait.”
“If a painting doesn’t have the right seasoning, it has to wait.”
Real States featuring paintings by Tom Burckhardt, Clare Grill, and Sangram Majumdar Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York February 10- March 13, 2016 This is the final weekend to see Real States at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects on the Lower East Side. The show features paintings by Tom Burckhardt, Clare Grill, and Sangram […]
Contributed by Rob Kaiser-Schatzlein / In late November, I rode my bike to Clare Grill’s Sunnyside apartment-studio, where we talked about her technique, the mental space required to paint, a…
Not that long ago, women were valued for not just their beauty, but their “accomplishments”. That term didn’t refer to earning a promotion or college degree at the time, but show…
Claire Grill's wonderful blurry paintings of samplers are a wonderful celebratory homage, as well as antithesis, to the detailed and painstaking patience that goes into creating a sampler. "I think about the beliefs and stories that were handed down to me and I reinterpret them in my paintings. Family folklore, backyard rituals, religious sacraments, ghost stories, church, school, obedience and trust in what you’re told are among my subjects. The things we’re taught can be learned a thousand different ways. I like for the familiar to seem a little unfamiliar and complicated, because it is. I look at images from the past as I work because they’re heartbreaking and haunting – what was never can be again. I mess with my imagery, layering and wearing it away until I've made a painting that makes you notice the paint as much as the pictures." Claire Grill (Thank you)
here.
A bittersweetness wafts through Clare Grill's work, a tenderness toward the irrecoverable past.
Clare Grill, Flay, 2015, olio su lino, cm. 101x 84,5
By Clare Caulfield
Contributed by Rob Kaiser-Schatzlein / In late November, I rode my bike to Clare Grill’s Sunnyside apartment-studio, where we talked about her technique, the mental space required to paint, a…
Clare Grill Peacock, 2015 oil on linen 63 x 50 inches
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