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NEW YORK CITY - Margaret Thatcher Projects is hosting the first New York solo exhibition of new paintings by Belgian artist Jus Juchtmans  through February 16.

In a city known more for its colonial history than for contemporary art, local artist Bill Thompson makes contributions to the field that'll take you way off the Freedom Trail. At his exhibition “Dialects,” on view at Barbara Krakow Gallery until next Wednesday, works like Loop (2007)—a shiny green form that is not as 3-D as a cube, not as flat as a rectangle, and has rounded edges that give relevance to its title—seem to reinvent shapes.

Minimalist artists Peter Weber and Bill Thompson create accessible art by deceptively
simple means. Both artists have a singularly controlled vision defined by visually
compelling abstract elements that send an immediate message. There is nothing in the
art of either left to chance. That the works are well crafted and fully resolved adds to
their soothing yet stimulating effect; the finish alone inspires admiration. As one
observes each piece, the inventive elaboration involved in the choices made by each
artist illuminates the scope and uniqueness of his inspired creative endeavor.

One of the largest landscape artworks in NSW has been installed at the $330 million Parramatta Justice Precinct.

The 22.4-metre wide and 6.3-metre high artwork, entitled Pharmacopeia of the Burramatta occupies an entire wall of the lobby at the new Justice Precinct Offices.

Internationally renowned artist, Gary Carsley said the landscape of Parramatta Park was the largest assignment he had undertaken.

...William Steiger the owner of an orderly eye if ever there were one, who selects only the most pleasing and succinct details from a tacky and complicated American landscape and paints those in flat color and high relief against otherwise blazingly blank backgrounds of whiteness.

As the wall-mounted sculptural abstractions of Vadim Katznelson: Interiority of Paint reveal, at times there are pleasures simply in pure color and form. Formed entirely of hard-drying acrylic resin, Katzenelson's aggregations of brightly colored, flower-like bursts are at once suggestive of solid, synthetic plasticity and the fractures or fissions of organic process...Continue to full story

In his most recent exhibition, "226,085 Drops," Spanish-born, Brooklyn-based artist Teo González proved himself capable of coaxing transcendent moments from mere daubs of paint. González's square grids are composed of tight clusters of thousands of miniscule "drops-within-drops."

Something must be wrong with my math. Irvine Contemporary's exhibition of the work of Teo González, two of whose obsessive-compulsive dot-patterned paintings have been acquired recently by the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, is called "226,085 Drops," but I can account for only 199,314. Don't be silly, I didn't count them all myself. ...Read Full Story

Omar Chacon's paintings are deceptive and can be considered sculptural in that he builds them up using pieces of paint as the compositional elements.

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Philadelphia artist and friend of artblog Kevin Finklea has four paintings on show at the Eagle Gallery in London. Each painting is on a solid board, either of plexiglass or MDF. No framing necessary. Each painting consists of a rectangle of darker color set against a lighter background. The rectangles are each off center to the left, in reference to British driving habits. In two of the paintings the rectangles are biased up, and in two, down.