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Clintel Steed: Interview

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David Cohen interviews painter Clintel Steed. Steed remarks: "I think as an image-maker I am always searching for an image that will be challenging that will have some of the elements that I find exciting in painting... That is the thing that is magic about the visual world, when you pay attention to things, that

Lois Dickson: A Playpen Within A Battlefield

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An essay by David Cohen on the paintings of Lois Dickson. Dickson's exhibition New Worlds is on view at the New York Studio School through July 15, 2017. Cohen writes: "A ludic morphology lies at the heart of Dickson’s endeavor. Elaborations of shape and excavations of depth animate her pictorial intelligence in ways that are

R.B. Kitaj: Renewal and Resistance

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David Cohen's 2003 interview with painter R.B.Kitaj, republished on the occasion of the exhibition R.B.Kitaj: The Exile at Home, curated by Barry Schwabsky, at Marlborough Contemporary, New York, on view through April 8, 2017. "[Kitaj] is living proof of some traits his critic enemies picked up on: a promiscuous lover of big ideas, an inveterate