William Corwin

New York

Co Editor, Architecture Section at The Brooklyn Rail

Sculptor, Co-Editor Brooklyn Rail Architecture, contributor Art & Antiques, ArtPapers. Hieroglyphic, Archaeology, and Rubble enthusiast, Native New Yorker.

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Articles

Up: Janet Goldner’s Zigzags at FiveMyles

1 month ago | artspiel.org | William Corwin

A cavernous cubbyhole with a variety of enigmatic gunmetal stalagmites emerges from the relative monotony of the urban backdrop of St. John’s Place in Crown Heights.
Keisha Prioleau-Martin: Recenter at Olympia

2 months ago | artspiel.org | William Corwin

Recenter is a delightful return to Impressionism in many ways. Prioleau-Martin chooses for her subject matter decidedly impressionistic themes—moments at home, moments of introspection, and unrehearsed tenderness, all the casual yet poignant subject matter that marked painting’s initial move from the historic and fantastical to the everyday and human in the 1870s. She also employs the paint with a focus to capture the spur of the moment and the unexpected.
GREGORY RICK | TUSSLE

Jan 11, 2025 | tusslemagazine.com | William Corwin

The pacific and gentle face of Harriet Tubman is what will jump out at the viewer in Gregory Ricks painting exhibition Active Shooter at Our Baptism, when standing in the compact and brim-filled space of Hair and Nails; a gallery recently arrived from Minneapolis on the Lower East Side.
Loren Munk and James Kalm

Nov 14, 2024 | tusslemagazine.com | William Corwin

In the raucous painting What Manhattan Makes Brooklyn Takes (2004-2006), myriad names in colorful bubbles swarm at the center of the canvas in a way that seem to vibrate and expand, drifting over the map which vainly attempts to site those names in space.
Crafting the Ballets Russes

Aug 23, 2024 | brooklynrail.org | William Corwin

Crafting the Ballets RussesThe Robert Owen Lehman Collection, The Morgan Library & MuseumJune 28–September 22, 2024New YorkMostly we just talk about Vaslav Nijinsky. Oliver Herring and I walk through the exhibition Crafting the Ballet Russes at the Morgan Library.
Hugh Hayden: Hughmans

Jul 1, 2024 | brooklynrail.org | William Corwin

ArtSeen On View Lisson GalleryHughmansMay 2–August 2, 2024 New York Hugh Hayden’s exhibition Hughmans takes the form of a series of bathroom stalls ringing the three walls of Lisson gallery in Chelsea, creating a life-size advent calendar experience. Viewers move from stall to stall, excitedly unlocking the doors (all open except for one), peering inside, and finding themselves greeted in each by a singular sculpture or installation.
Eva Hesse: Five Sculptures

Jul 1, 2024 | brooklynrail.org | William Corwin

ArtSeen On View Hauser & WirthFive SculpturesMay 2–July 26, 2024New York My father celebrated his ninety-firstbirthday last weekend. If I try hard, I can remember him when he had thicker hair, more teeth, and full cheeks. But as I see him often and always have, the aging process has been gradual.
Franklin Einspruch | TUSSLE

Jun 6, 2024 | tusslemagazine.com | William Corwin

It’s refreshing to see an artist who revels in being self-consciously stylized, as does Franklin Einspruch. In figurative painting, there is a school of artisans who clearly want the viewer to follow along with each intentional gesture and apprehend the “why” of the artist’s decision-making process: Leger, Ozenfant, Braque all embody this spirit at some point in their careers. The subject matter of Einspruch’s oil paintings is purposefully chosen to assist his aesthetic maneuvers.
Françoise Gilot - Art & Antiques Magazine

May 1, 2024 | artandantiquesmag.com | William Corwin

by William CorwinGilot’s line is the first thing you notice, her tool for expressing an image. In her portraits in pencil, the line becomes the central element, almost tattooed into the paper. In her paintings, both figurative and abstract, Gilot’s line acts either as a boundary of form or as a central element or elements, weaving in and out amongst the other forms or creating complicated knots and patterns.
Paint as Experience

May 1, 2024 | artandantiquesmag.com | William Corwin

by William CorwinAt age 10, in 1918, Norman Carton and his mother were in hiding during pogroms unleashed by the Russian revolution; six years later the same boy found himself safe and sound in Philadelphia, rescued from Eastern Europe by the intervention of his older brother, who had already relocated to the States. The pogroms in Ukraine during the Russian civil war resulted in the murder of up to 250,000 Jews.