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Margaret McCann: Interview

Larry Groff and Matthew Mattingly interview painter Margaret McCann about her work. McCann also discusses The Figure, a new book she edited, published by Skira/Rizzoli. McCann notes that "Ideally, [painting is] 'two steps forward, one step back' a forward progression. Textures build up richly this way… My compositional spaces are shaped around my experience looking […]

Margaret McCann on Diego Velázquez

Margaret McCann considers Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas (1656). McCann writes that "the uncertainties of Las Meninas’s imagery feel modern, and resound with postmodern ambiguity. Yet Velazquez’s doubt is not the existential crisis of Prufrock, anxiously asking, 'Do I dare disturb the universe? In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute […]

Margaret McCann: Vision of Atlantic City

John Seed talks to painter Margaret McCann about the portrayal of Atlantic City in many of her recent paintings, currently on view in the exhibition From Rome to Atlantic City at the University of Virginia’s Ruffin Gallery, through December 7, 2012. Seed introduces the conversation: "Getting to know Margaret and her paintings was Faustian: the more I […]

Margaret McCann: Interview

In works rich in both allusion and painterly craft, McCann merges careful observation, popular culture, and an encyclopedic knowledge of the tradition of painting.

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“Painters’ Table … reflects the invigorating range of intellectual conversation still inspired by the painter’s art.” —Jed Perl, The New Republic “The glue that holds together an unfathomably huge amount of the dialogue about painting on the internet together.” —Christopher Lowrance, MW Capacity “[Painters’ Table] looks for writers who approach art with a personal sensibility, […]

The Influence of Andrew Forge

Painter Mark Trujillo blogs about the influential artist, critic, and teacher Andrew Forge and includes remembrances from artists Ann Gale, Julie Heffernan, Denzil Hurley, Margaret McCann, Paula Heisen, Tommy Fitzpatrick, Mark Brosseau, Steve Hicks, Stuart Elster, and Denis Farrell. Trujillo writes that "[Forge's] influence was formative for me and I know for many others as […]

Conversation with Megan Marlatt

Margaret McCann interviews painter Megan Marlatt.