Brett Baker
Articles
Yearning Upwards, Painting Trees
Interview with painter Emily Berger, curator of Yearning Upwards, Painting Trees at The Painting Center, New York.
Brenda Goodman: Interview
Goodman explores powerfully personal narratives animated by a visual language that moves that moves freely between abstraction and representation.
Stephanie Pierce: Sight & Sound
Stephanie Pierce’s paintings evoke a sense of place that extends beyond the visual.
Ying Li: Foreign Terrain
Ying Li’s recent paintings, on view at the College of Staten Island, fuse natural phenomena and the act of painting.
Milton Resnick: Painting to Live
Geoffrey Dorfman discusses the life and work of painter Milton Resnick.
From Edwin Dickinson to the Perceptual Painters
In a new video painter/curator Scott Noel discusses a lineage of observational painting that spans four generations.
Conversation with Alfredo Gisholt
Gisholt paints timeless, poetic worlds where the everyday and the grand tradition of painting merge.
The Ability of Paint
Interview with painter Paul Behnke, curator of the exhibition Eight Painters at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York.
Leon Kossoff: Seeing Differences
In a new video painter Leon Kossoff discusses his work and approach to painting.
David Rhodes: Schwarzwälde
Rhodes’ paintings embody minimalism’s factuality, employ the techniques of color field painting, and evoke the existentialism of the New York School.
See It Loud: Seven Post-War American Painters
Three videos provide an excellent introduction to a group of painters who pursue(d) an expansive painterly vision in an era defined by increasingly reductive approaches in art.
The Edge and a Little Beyond
Six abstract artists push out the edge of the painting. The work, verging on sculpture, clearly comes from a painter’s mind.
Conversation with Zachary Keeting
Zachary Keeting’s works evoke the beauty, emotion, order, and mayhem that lie just below the surface of everyday experience.
Joanne Freeman: In Conversation
In Joanne Freeman’s works, a richness of color, specificity of light, and a languid sense of movement arise naturally from the painting process.
Braque at the Phillips Collection
Braque’s “second career” may, in retrospect, constitute his greater legacy.
Ying Li: What’s In Front of Me
In a new video by John Thornton Ying Li discusses her approach to painting.
Nicolas de Staël: Needs to be Seen
The general neglect of de Staël is a missed opportunity for American painters.
Robert Goodnough: Subject Matter of the Artist
A new book unearths a lost primary source, penned by a significant artist, one that sheds first-person light on some of the most iconic artists of the New York School.
Carrie Moyer: Studio Visit
Carrie Moyer describes her process, which begins with small black and white collages, and discusses her influences – including Miro’s The Farm (1921–1922) and paintings by Christian Schad and Alexej von Jawlensky.