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Fran Shalom: Merging vernaculars twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/11/fran...
Fran Shalom: Merging vernaculars
Contributed by Adam Simon / I’ve been aware of Fran Shalom’s paintings for a while and have been interested in how at times they seem like a comic version of abstract painting. She excels at what I…
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November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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NYC Selected Gallery Guide, November 2025 twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/11/nyc-...
NYC Selected Gallery Guide, November 2025
Welcome to the Two Coats of Paint November selected guide to painting-centric exhibitions in New York, Brooklyn, and Queens….
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November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Peter Doig’s tropical opera twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/11/pete...
Peter Doig’s tropical opera
Contributed by David Carrier / Upon entering Peter Doig’s show at Serpentine South Gallery in London, you see Painting for Wall Painters (Prosperity P.o.S.), a vibrant depiction of a half-finished …
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November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Alexandra Smith’s poignant restraint twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/11/alex...
Alexandra Smith’s poignant restraint
Contributed by Jacob Patrick Brooks / Auxier Kline is a small hallway gallery on the fringes of Chinatown. Alexandra Smith’s previous shows there had an intimate sweetness – tender images of touch,…
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November 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Michelle Jaffe’s multi-sensory encounters twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/11/mich...
Michelle Jaffe’s multi-sensory encounters
Contributed by Susan Silas / Sculptor and inter-media installation artist Michelle Jaffe creates time-based experiential works at the intersection of sculpture, sound, video, and performance. Sound…
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November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide November 2025 twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/10/huds...
Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide November 2025
Contributed by Karlyn Benson / November is starting out with a busy weekend of openings all across the region. On November 1, Dogs & Cats opens at SEPTEMBER with over 80 artists participating.…
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October 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Andrew Shea’s domestic enchantment
Contributed by Jonathan Agin / Andrew Shea’s work in recent years has evolved from geometric, high-contrast scenes of city bustle to impressionistic vignettes of home life where hues interact with …
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October 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Spring Projects’ epic subway series twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/10/spri...
Spring Projects’ epic subway series
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Most New Yorkers couldn’t live without the subway. It is their savior if occasionally their oppressor. They love it so much that they hate it when it lets them d…
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October 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The enigmatic art market twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/10/the-...
The enigmatic art market
Contributed by David Carrier / We art critics are utterly dependent on the art market. Without the labors of curators, the well-dressed servants of the collector class, we would have nothing to rev…
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October 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Two Coats Resident Artist: Joseph Smolinski, November 9–14 twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/10/two-...
Two Coats Resident Artist: Joseph Smolinski, November 9–14
Contributed by Sharon Butler / From November 9 to 14, Two Coats of Paint will host Joseph Smolinski, a multidisciplinary artist and educator born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, and based in New…
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October 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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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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October 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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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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October 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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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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October 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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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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October 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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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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October 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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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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October 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Two Coats of Paint Open Studio today, Oct 5, 5-7. Long Island City, NY. DM for details
October 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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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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October 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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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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October 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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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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October 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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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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October 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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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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October 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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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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October 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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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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October 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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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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October 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM