Sam Bornstein

When an artist bares an element of doubt in their work, they open a portal to the act of making. This productive doubt characterizes the art of Sam Bornstein, who, like Pierre Bonnard or Amy Sillman, is invested in searching and revision. Bornstein approaches painting from a position of uncertainty, allowing marks and thoughts to eddy on the canvas before they cohere.

Bornstein’s current exhibition, “Daydream Workshop,” comprising twelve paintings in a variety of media, such as oil, acrylic, and silkscreen, gets to the heart of his process. Take Manic Cartographers (all works 2018), an image of

picks March 30, 2018

Milton Resnick

Milton Resnick left New York for Europe in 1946, just as the New York School was reaching cohesion, casting him as something of an outsider. When he came back in 1948, he began a massive figurative canvas on which he worked for months, only to destroy it in a state of exhausted delirium. Resnick arrived at his mature style of heavily impastoed near-monochrome paintings around 1960. The works in this exhibition, “Apparitions, Reapparitions,” suggest that Resnick’s figurative turn in the early 1980s wasn’t an about-face from the sonorous abstractions for which he is best known, but that the figures