Peter Plagens

Peter Plagens: Interview

New City Art

Alan Pocaro talks to painter and critic Peter Plagens whose show, The Age of Innocence: Abstract Paintings by Peter Plagens, was recently on view at the Farmer Family Gallery at The Ohio State University at Lima. Pocaro notes that: "If the project of our lives is to integrate the many conflicting aspects of self into

Painting Pros and Cons

Artpulse

Laurie Fendrich and Peter Plagens discuss the pros and cons of painting in the 21st century. Plagens: "... painting has become pretty much a niche medium in the big-time contemporary art world... The argument that painting has value because of its history, in the way a lot of current painters invoke it, is merely valuing