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A Lesson in Art at Duckworth Gallery twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/10/a-le...
A Lesson in Art at Duckworth Gallery
Duckworth Gallery: Pedagogy of Tears, 2025, installation view. Image courtesy of the gallery. Contributed by Anna Gregor / It is a relief when the curator of a group show doesn’t tell viewers how t…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 4d
Heather Drayzen: Painting as faith  twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/10/heat...
Heather Drayzen: Painting as faith
Contributed by Lucas Moran / In times of great political upheaval and unrest, art has held us and guided us towards compassion. Picasso’s Guernica set the most titanic example of this in 1937. As w…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 7d
Susannah Phillips: A grave luminosity twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/10/susa...
Susannah Phillips: A grave luminosity
Contributed by John Goodrich / The act of painting is enough to befuddle the ordered mind. We can grasp its basic ingredients: the lines that divide a surface, directing the eye and locating forms …
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 9d
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No facts, only interpretations: David Humphrey talks with Gary Gissler
David Humphrey: I’m going to improvise this conversation, but I have a thought to start with that has to do with the title of your show, against interpretation. I want to think about each of …
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 10d
Ben Shahn’s vigilance twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/10/ben-...
Ben Shahn’s vigilance
Contributed by Margaret McCann / Ben Shahn’s lifelong advocacy against poverty, racism, and fascism is showcased in his solo exhibition “Ben Shahn and Nonconformity,” now up at the Jewish Museum. W…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 10d
Absence: The highest form of presence twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/10/abse...
Absence: The highest form of presence
Contributed by Paul Behnke / My wife Garner Behnke, who suffered from debilitating illness and took her own life two years ago this December, was a passionate, funny, intelligent, and talented woma…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 11d
Two Coats of Paint Open Studio today, Oct 5, 5-7. Long Island City, NY. DM for details
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 15d
Libby Braden’s twilight disturbia twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/10/libb...
Libby Braden’s twilight disturbia
Contributed by Patrick Neal / The artist Libby Braden lives and works in an old East Village tenement apartment that recalls the austere bohemian enclaves of James Baldwin’s Another Country or Jona…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 15d
Art history diagrammed at the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/10/art-...
Art history diagrammed at the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
Contributed by David Carrier / Anyone old enough to remember Claude Levi-Strauss’s books on structural anthropology or Rosalind Krauss’ famed structuralist account of sculpture, all richly suggesti…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 17d
Paul Feeley: When paintings want to be sculptures by @sharonbutler.bsky.social --> twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/10/paul...
Paul Feeley: When paintings want to be sculptures
Contributed by Sharon Butler / “Paul Feeley: The Shape of Things” is Garth Greenan Gallery’s fourth solo exhibition for the painter, who died in 1966. But it is the first to ask – and answer …
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 18d
Cora Cohen: Refusing closure twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/10/cora...
Cora Cohen: Refusing closure
Contributed by Saul Ostrow / “A Decade: 2012–22” is the first show of Cora Cohen’s work since her death in 2023. It includes a broad range of her late paintings and drawings, which reflect what mig…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 19d
Two Coats Resident Artist: Lawre Stone, October 20 - 25 twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/10/two-...
Two Coats Resident Artist: Lawre Stone, October 20 – 25
Contributed by Sharon Butler / On October 20, Two Coats of Paint welcomes Lawre Stone from the countryside near Hudson, New York. She is aesthetically as well as socially concerned with ecological …
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 23d
Marta Lee: Privileging intimacy and multiplicity twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/10/mart...
Marta Lee: Privileging intimacy and multiplicity
Contributed by Jason Andrew / In an explosion of color and clutter, Marta Lee’s new work, on view at Tappeto Volante in Gowanus, shakes up the revered tradition of still life painting. Lee fills he…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 24d
Pablo Benzo smites an art lover twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/10/pabl...
Pablo Benzo smites an art lover
Contributed by David Carrier / To be a happy art critic, perhaps you need to be ready to fall in love – at least with a picture. I have a friend, a very distinguished intellectual, who some years a…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 25d
NYC Selected Gallery Guide, October, 2025 twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/10/nyc-...
NYC Selected Gallery Guide, October, 2025
Welcome to the Two Coats of Paint October selected guide to painting-centric exhibitions in New York, Brooklyn, and Queens. We’ll be updating the listings around mid-month, so if you want you…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 25d
Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide October 2025 twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/10/huds...
Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide October 2025
Contributed by Karlyn Benson / October is the most beautiful month to visit the Hudson Valley and surrounding regions. Don’t miss seeing the brilliant foliage and enjoying cooler days and cle…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 26d
Paul Thomas Anderson: Raised on promises twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/09/paul...
Paul Thomas Anderson: Raised on promises
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson/ Among the syndromes that make the current American moment so vexing is a liberal contingent duly alarmed but bereft and flummoxed in the face of unprecedentedly h…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 27d
Marina Adams: Patches of sun in a shadowy world twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/09/mari...
Marina Adams: Patches of sun in a shadowy world
Contributed by Amanda Church / Marina Adams has long been exploring the range of allusions that can be conjured by various color combinations and the scale and placement of simple shapes, which pre…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 27d
Paul Gardère’s prescient eclecticism twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/09/paul...
Paul Gardère’s prescient eclecticism
Contributed by Adam Simon / Paul Gardère (1944–2011), whose work is now on view in “Second Nature” at Magenta Plains, is known for a unique version of combine paintings, incorporating assemblage, f…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · Sep 26
Spencer Finch’s inventive visual translations twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/09/spen...
Spencer Finch’s inventive visual translations
Contributed by David Carrier / Spencer Finch is fascinated by Japan, which he first visited some 50 years ago, when he was a teenager. “One Hundred Famous Views of New York City (After Hiroshige),”…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · Sep 24
Two Coats Resident Artist: Alice Pixley Young, October 12–17 twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/09/two-...
Two Coats Resident Artist: Alice Pixley Young, October 12–17
Contributed by Sharon Butler / On October 12, Two Coats of Paint welcomes Alice Pixley Young. She hails from Cincinnati, Ohio, where the Rust Belt and ancient fossil beds meet nuclear contamination…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · Sep 19
Cady Noland, playing at Gagosian twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/09/cady...
Cady Noland, playing at Gagosian
Contributed by Jacob Patrick Brooks / I saw my favorite piece of Cady Noland ephemera before I ever saw one of her sculptures. On Instagram, a gallery posted a photo of a tee-shirt. It’s well loved…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · Sep 18
Susan Rothenberg: The way things can’t be twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/09/susa...
Susan Rothenberg: The way things can’t be
Contributed by Jason Andrew / Susan Rothenberg’s exhibition “The Weather”, now up at Hauser & Wirth, is a rare chance to experience the breadth and intensity of one of most vital influences in…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · Sep 17
JoAnne Carson: Raucous retro-futurism twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/09/joan...
JoAnne Carson: Raucous retro-futurism
Contributed by Mary Jones / Exuberance is a word frequently used in describing the work of JoAnne Carson, and, in “Cosmic Chatter,” her first solo show at DC Moore, it’s in hyperdrive. Twelve large…
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Two Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · Sep 16
Robert Yoder: The gravity of modesty twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/09/robe...
Robert Yoder: The gravity of modesty
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / If On Kawara’s monumentally quotidian work was about the objective significance of the simple passage of time, Robert Yoder’s may be, in turn, about the subjecti…
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