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I reviewed Maureen McQuillan: Coloratura for the Brooklyn Rail’s November issue https://brooklynrail.org/2025/11/artseen/maureen-mc-quillan-coloratura Maureen McQuillan, Untitled (C/MTY/BB), 2024. Acrylic polymer, ink, and acrylic on wood panel, 18 × 18 inches. Courtesy the artist and McKenzie Fine Art.

I reviewed John Zurier: Pink Dust for the Brooklyn Rail’s October issue. https://brooklynrail.org/2025/10/artseen/john-zurier-pink-dust John Zurier, May, Morning Evening, 2025. Oil on linen. 21 ⅝ × 15 ¾ inches. Courtesy the artist and Peter Blum Gallery.

I reviewed Paul Feeley: The Shape of Things for the Brooklyn Rail’s October issue. https://brooklynrail.org/2025/10/artseen/paul-feeley-the-shape-of-things Installation view: Paul Feeley: The Shape of Things, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, 2025. Courtesy Garth Greenan Gallery.

I reviewed Robert Mangold’s Pentagons and Folded Space for the July/August issue of the Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2025/07/artseen/robert-mangold-pentagons-and-folded-space “There is a visual grammar distinct to these paintings, a range of abstract sensations that, with concentration, seemed to recalibrate and refocus my senses, opening the paintings to me. The experience is like learning a language. Through the […]

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 wrote an essay for the exhibition catalogue of Norman Bluhm at Miles McEnery Gallery, on view from 30 January to 15 March. The catalogue is published online and can be read at: https://www.milesmcenery.com/publications/norman-bluhm2

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