Tag Archives: Cheryl Donegan

Marc Handelman & Cheryl Donegan

abstraction_diptychIn the final installment of the WHAT STATE ABSTRACTION series, Marc Handelman and Cheryl Donegan discuss the resurgence of abstract painting in the early 2000s.

Carroll Dunham & Keltie Ferris

Keltie Ferris, ST. SEBASTIAN, 2009. Oil, acrylic, sprayed paint & oil pastel on canvas, 80 x 80 inches. Courtesy of Horton & Liu, New York, NY. Photo: Mark Woods, New York, NY.
In this penultimate installment, Caroll Dunham and Keltie Ferris discuss “bitchiness” in Abstract painting.

A BOMB Abstraction Primer


Abstract painting is all over New York this fall. Managing Editor Nick Stillman rounds up some vintage and recent BOMB interviews that “tackle the eternally thorny topic.”

Dan Walsh & Amy Sillman

Amy Sillman DETAIL from "Fatso," 2009, oil/canvas, full painting 7'x7.5', area of detail: approx 8 inches.
Earlier this year I posed a question to 12 admired painters: “What is the current state of abstraction?” The following is a collection of their responses, spanning the absurd, the analytical, and the visionary, all linked by an undercurrent of curiosity for the unknown.

Wendy White

Wendy White's studio.

Wendy White’s paintings are some of the most dynamic and edgy abstractions being made today. When I was first introduced to her work back in 2005, they were raw, brash, confident—everything that the art world was not at the time.