Brett Baker
Articles
Halsey Hathaway: Interview
An interview accompanying an exhibition of new paintings by Halsey Hathaway at Rawson Projects, Brooklyn, New York.
Al Held’s Visual Thresholds
The graphic monumentality of Al Held’s Alphabet Paintings comes from vigorously painted architectonic arrangements of letterforms painted on near-mural scale canvases.
Alan Uglow: Object & Image
Alan Uglow’s abstract paintings engage with each other and the viewer to create subtle, shifting apprehensions of flatness and illusion.
Hilma Af Klint: Paintings for the Future
A new exhibition sheds new light on a pioneering abstract painter and one of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century.
Trent Miller: Interview
Trent Miller’s presents his highly-complex and personal vision through paintings and drawings in which the observed world and that of the imagination harmoniously coexist.
Jay DeFeo: Chancing the Ridiculous
Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective San Francisco Museum of Modern Art November 3, 2012 – June 9, 2013 Whitney Museum of American Art February 28 – June 2, 2013 Jay DeFeo’s reputation as an imporatant painter was established before the eight year period (1958-1966) in which she poured her entire vision and energy into a single […]
Brett Baker: Paintings at Elizabeth Harris Gallery
Painters’ Table readers are invited to an exhibition of my new paintings at the Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York.
Eugène Leroy: Subjects & Surroundings
Christophe Loizillon documents painter Eugène Leroy at his home and studio. The film is shot in the same chiaroscuro lighting characteristic of Leroy’s paintings.
Catherine Murphy: Object & Information
Catherine Murphy comments on her desire to make paintings that function simultaneously as abstraction and representation.
John Bellany’s Human Image
For more than 50 years, Bellany has remained committed to painting the human condition in an era dominated by formalist abstraction, minimalism, installtion, and performance art.
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.
Bridget Riley: Repetition, Rhythm, & Learning to Look
In a recent interview with The Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins, painter Bridget Riley discussed “movement, shimmering, sparkling and reflecting … all those things that happen in landscape” as the inspiration for her abstract paintings. In the two videos below, Riley elaborates on the influence of landscape from an early age, and the visual power found in […]
Gillian Ayres: Video Interview
An extended look into the artist’s studio, viewers see Ayres at work and hear her thoughts on painting.
Per Kirkeby at the Phillips
Per Kirkeby speaks to exhibition co-curator Dorothy Kosinski about the necessity of time in the development of a painting.
Bernard Chaet (1924 – 2012)
Best known as the author of the seminal book The Art of Drawing, Chaet influenced thousands of artists as a teacher and a painter.
Tenses of Landscape
A new show “presents both broad and dynamic depictions of landscape revealed as motif.”
George Hofmann’s Instant Awareness
As our ability to sense individual moments is being destroyed, George Hofmann paints what amounts to a collection of instants.
Focusing the Field
While nearly every other aspect of abstract painting has been exhaustively investigated and re-imagined, examples of focusing the field to a small scale have been isolated and few.
Nick Miller’s Truckscapes
A short film by Bill Haynes documents painter Nick Miller’s mobile studio.
Frederick Hammersley: Studio Visit
Frederick Hammersley discusses his general thoughts on painting as well as the specifics and development of his practice