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In May, I sat down for a talk with Damin Lee of Upsilon Gallery, New York City, about their exhibition “Shared Light: The Art of Alice Baber and Paul Jenkins.” Here are some excerpts from my talk: https://www.upsilongallery.com/news/82-art-historian-talk-with-alex-grimley-shared-light-the-art-of-alice-baber/

I reviewed Claire Sherman’s show “Petrichor” at DC Moore for the Brooklyn Rail. https://brooklynrail.org/2025/03/artseen/claire-sherman-petrichor from my review: “… Inness was focused on communicating the somatic, sensory qualities of landscape—how it feels rather than how it looks. This approach to landscape painting gradually became the dominant one, and today landscape is the medium through which some of the […]

I haven’t updated this “News” page in over a year—it’s been a busy year! Here are the projects and publications I worked on in 2024.  I wrote the catalogue essay for “Sherron Francis: Splash of Serenity, Paintings 1973-1977” at Lincoln Glenn Gallery, New York, which ran between April and June.  I wrote an essay, “Drawing […]

DC Three: Davis, Downing, Mehring, the exhibition catalogue corresponding to the Spring 2022 exhibition at Yares Art, New York, was published in December 2023. The catalogue features my essay “Sensible, Autonomous, Populist: Twenty-Five Years of Painting in Washington, D.C.”

I wrote an essay for the exhibition “Object Matter” curated by artist Scott Bennett at Caldwell Gallery Hudson. The exhibition catalogue was published online and can be found at https://www.caldwellgallery.com/exhibitions-items/object-matter/press-release

https://brooklynrail.org/2023/10/artseen/Jane-Wilsons-Atmospheres I reviewed the show Jane Wilson: Atmospheres at D.C. Moore for the Brooklyn Rail

My essay on Francine Tint’s recent paintings was published in Francine Tint: The Sky is a Mirror published by Upsilon Gallery, New York.

https://brooklynrail.org/2023/09/artseen/Julie-DeVries-Survival-Moments I reviewed Julie DeVries’s show Survival Moments at Hunter Dunbar Projects for the Brooklyn Rail

https://brooklynrail.org/2023/06/artseen/Jim-Dine-Three-Ships

https://brooklynrail.org/2023/04/artseen/Kenneth-Noland-StripesPlaidsShapes