Eclectic Paths

For an aspiring artist, being born in South Florida turns out not to have been such a bad thing.
The Red Dot Exhibition 2018 is a recap of the past season’s “best in show” works, called “red dots,” referring to the small stickers that judges place next to their top picks.
The Portsmouth exhibition harvests over seventy of Gertrude Fiske’s paintings from private and public collections. It is a modest venue for an ambitious agenda, namely the revival of an artist whose reputation has languished for the balance of the last century.

Luminous Geometry

Coldstream seemed to me a talented curiosity: dry, meticulous, influenced by Cézanne, and—though this is no debit—reliably irresolute. He worried his paintings through dozens of sessions without ever falling victim to a conventional standard of finish.