gitcher hot paintings here!

So much wonderful art to see, it makes the head spin... tonight is (AT LAST!) the impatiently-anticipated opening at Feigen Contemporary of new paintings by the lovely and brilliant Jennifer Coates:


Softwall, 2006

These compelling works are mysterious and visionary, luminous and virtuosic. Trees, stones, fizz, tangles, and orifices combine to evoke a place that is both exterior and interior, mind and body.

Then on Saturday, Nicole Eisenman's enormous, landmark, earth-moving diptych, "Progress: Real and Imagined," is finally unveiled at Leo Koenig:


Progress: Real and Imagined, 2006

(click on the image for a larger version.) It was my great fortune to get a preview of this tremendous work in person, and I tell you it blew me right out of my shoes! This absolute masterpiece depicts a sweeping odyssey of epic proportions and cycle-of-life allegory. It functions wonderfully as a whole, but is also many paintings-within-a-painting, with narrative and painterly passages telling a story of humor, pathos, struggle, and hope.

And plus, last but not least, our own beloved HFP (aka Adam Hurwitz) is in a show, too!!! The 181st Annual invitational show opened last night at The National Academy of Design. The galleries and halls of their beautiful mansion are decked out with the works of over 100 artists, including this large, knockout painting by the Hyena himself:


Plug, 2005

Of course you will want to go see the fantastic piece depicted above, but there are also many other excellent works in the show; check out the list of artists on the National Academy site.