"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


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:


https://snapeditions.com/2024/02/29/david-ebonys-top-10-winter-2024/?doing_wp_cron=1709555123.4965090751647949218750



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