It is intimate, materially omnivorous, hyper-spatially curvy, dissonantly evocative, eccentrically constructed, and defiantly connected to a notion of sculpture as abstract statuary, a three-dimensional site of anthropomorphized contemplation (the sort of art Ad Reinhardt described as “something you back into when you’re looking at a painting”).
[13] In 2005, his exhibition entitled "Monkey Wrenches and Household Saints" was shown at the Clifford Gallery at Colgate University (catalogue).
And because it’s not seemingly geometric or representational, it’s something that is not easily categorizable.”[12] 2020 Sarah Bahr, Ensnared by the Fine Art of Scam”, NY Times, Oct. 12t 2016 Will Heinrich, “Art in Review: John Newman and Jo Nigoghossian,” NY Times, Nov. 18th Carroll Dunham, “Into words: the collected writings of Carroll Dunham: John Newman”, Badlands Unlimited Anderson Turner, “Intersections at Akron Art Museum will expand your horizons,” Akron Beacon Journal, October, 14th 2014 R.C.
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120, Summer 2012 “In conversation: John Newman with Phong Bui”, The Brooklyn Rail, April Peter Plagens, “Balancing Grit with Wit”, Wall St. Journal, March 17-18th 2009 Roberta Smith, “John Newman”’ New York Times, February 27th Stephen Mueller, “John Newman: New York Studio School”, Art in America, May Ben La Rocco, “John Newman”, The Brooklyn Rail, March Stephanie Buhmann, “Exploratory Territories”, The Villager, Volume 78, Number 37 February 18–24 2006 Roberta Smith, "Critic's Notebook: Chelsea Is a battlefield: Galleries Muster Groups”, New York Times, July 28 David Cateforis, "John Newman at the Byron C. Cohen Gallery", REVIEW, December 2006 Ken Johnson, "From carved creatures to Disneyland rugs", Boston Globe, September 26 Stephanie Buhmann, "Review", Sculpture Magazine, April 2006, Vol.
BOMB, Summer 2005, Number 92[16] Linda Yablonsky, "Why Small Sculpture is Big", Artnews, December 2003 Roberta Smith, "John Newman", New York Times, Friday, May 30"[17] Sandra Wolfer, "Sculptures find niche at seniors' home", Daily news, July 3 Roy Proctor, “Look up in the sky!”, Richmond Times Dispatch, Nov. 14th Paulette Roberts-Pullen, “Art around us”, Style Weekly, Richmond, Virginia, Nov. 26th 2001 Janet Koplos, "John Newman at Von Lintel and Nusser", Art in America, November Grace Glueck, "John Newman: Homespun", New York Times, Friday, May 18[18] Linda Yablonsky, "John Newman: Homespun", TimeOut, May 3–10, 2001 Mario Naves, "Creepy Fetishes, Lazy Eyes, Bad Boys in the West 20's", New York Observer Daniel Rothbart,"The Protean Forms of John Newman", NY Arts, April, Vol.
4 Edith Newhall, "Talent-Material Culture", New York Magazine, May 7, 2001, Will Jones, "Station's sculpture stirs up a buzz", Richmond Times-Dispatch, Nov. 22 H. Peter Stern and others, "Earth, Sky and Sculpture: Storm King Art Center" Raphael Rubinstein, "A Stealth Revolution in Sculpture: John Newman", catalogue essay for GrandArts exhibition Nancy Princenthal, " Homespun", catalogue essay for Edition Von Lintel and Nusser Robin Trafton, ""C" is for Contrast", Kansas City Star, Dec. 7th, 2001 Janet Purcell, "Grounds for Celebration", Trenton Times, June 14