"A couple of small artist-run galleries are opening, too — Cate Holt’s
Springs Projects in DUMBO, and JJ MURPHY GALLERY on the Lower East Side.
JJ maintains @dagcentral, a beloved Instagram art review project, and he tells me that the gallery will open on Stanton Street in early February." — Two Coats of Paint
Nora Sturges Interview in The Hopkins Review (December 6, 2024)
https://hopkinsreview.com/features/nora-sturges-in-conversation
James Kalm Rough Cut YouTube video on Nora Sturges's solo show "Voices in the Dark" (November 23, 2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbYaz0FjBtA&t=76s
Roberta Smith on Mala Iqbal's "The Edge of an Encounter"
"Mala Iqbal’s show, in its last day at JJ Murphy (53 Stanton, LES) presents paintings in which the political, the painterly and the luminous collaborate, brought in alliance by a confident touch. Scenes of protest, homelessness and possibly violence are on hand. Debts to Picasso, Beckmann and Kitchener are evident, as is a contemporary cohort that includes Eisenman, Linhares, Madani others. Starting out as talented creator of watercolor landscapes, Iqbal has proceeded to her current level over the past 15 years or so. It has taken her a while, which is unsurprising. Painting takes time". — Roberta Smith, November 9, 2024, Instagram
Hyperallergic lists Mala Iqbal’s Solo Exhibition “The Edge of an Encounter” as One of Six Art Shows to see in New York Right Now (October 15, 2024)
Mala Iqbal: The Edge of an Encounter
JJ Murphy Gallery, 53 Stanton Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Through November 9
“Intractable wars and demonic weapons, entire families wiped out in one-minute airstrikes, children starved to death, elderly people crushed under the boots of soldiers, millions turned into helpless refugees, a defeated middle class rapidly sinking into poverty, unintelligent leaders, cowardly intellectuals, feckless artists, fake allies, thieves and liars at every corner, empires crashing into the dust, wolves baring their teeth, billionaires foaming at the mouth, people hiding inside their phones, where on Instagram a heart-wrenching photo of a mournful mother who lost everything is followed by an ad for a robot vacuum cleaner. On the sidelines of this mayhem that we’re living through are honest witnesses like Mala Iqbal, whose outstanding suite of paintings for this exhibition will leave you with a strange, unfathomable sense of hope.” —Hakim Bishara
https://hyperallergic.com/955543/six-new-york-city-art-shows-to-octobe/
Hyperallergic lists Charles Yuen's Solo Exhibition "Frequency Surfing" as One of the 10 Art Shows to see in New York Right Now (September 10, 2024)
10 Art Shows to See in New York Right Now
Artists including Leon Golub, Charles Yuen, Naudline Pierre, and Manny Vega are kicking off the fall art season with must-see shows.
Charles Yuen: Frequency Surfing
JJ Murphy Gallery, 53 Stanton Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Through October 5
“This newish gallery is the site of a solo exhibition by one of the original members of the influential Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network, Charles Yuen. His brash, textured canvas works have a dreamlike quality that distills seemingly simple compositions into layered scenes that occupy your imagination. “Shoulder Assist” (2023) and “This Again” (2023) are good examples of his language cutting to the core of what almost feels like various artistic anxieties. In the former, a figure sits atop another’s shoulders as they stare at a forest of ladders and dots that form the roots of a gesturally outlined forest, and in the other, a figure catches fire while their companion appears helpless to do much of anything with its ladder arms. Paint often seems to be in flux on his surfaces and the artist refuses purity in favor of a sometimes muddy line that produces a sense of speed, as if the artist was jotting something down before the idea slipped away.” —HV
https://hyperallergic.com/949302/10-art-shows-to-see-in-new-york-september-2024/
Natasha Sweeten’s review of the gallery's inaugural exhibition of David Hornung: New Work" in Two Coats of Paint (Feb. 24, 2024):
https://twocoatsofpaint.com/2024/02/david-hornungs-whispered-secrets.html
David Ebony lists David Hornung’s inaugural exhibition as one of the 10 best shows of Winter 2024:
Jonathan Stevenson on Farrell's Brickhouse's exhibition "Looking Back at Tomorrow" in Two Coats of Paint (April 23, 2024):
https://twocoatsofpaint.com/2024/04/farrell-brickhouse-the-beat-goes-on.html
Riad Miah on Farrell's Brickhouse's exhibition "Looking Back at Tomorrow" in Art Spiel (April 26, 2024):
https://artspiel.org/farrell-brickhouse-looking-back-at-tomorrow-at-jj-murphy-gallery/
Alice Zinnes on Farrell Brickhouse's exhibition"Looking Back at Tomorrow" in Entropvisions (April 25, 2024):
https://www.alicezinnes.com/entropvisions--blog-/view/6400011/0/8306820
Barbara MacAdam on "An Extended Family of Painters," Brooklyn Rail (May, 2024):
“As an off-stage adjunct to the [Peter] Freeman exhibition, there is the enlightening show An Extended Family of Painters: Hermine Ford, Robert Moskowitz, Jack Tworkov, Janice Biala, and Daniel Brustlein, at JJ Murphy Gallery on Stanton Street. The Murphy show serves as a fascinating counterpoint to the one at Freeman’s, highlighting the work of Moskowitz’s wife Hermine Ford, and Ford’s father, the influential abstract painter Jack Tworkov, who was a close friend of Moskowitz’s. Together, this family provides a stunning overview of the range of painting being made in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.”
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/05/artseen/Robert-Moskowitz-Paintings-and-Drawings-from-Four-Decades