Larry Groff

Larry Groff interviews fellow painter Barbara Grossman about her career and work. Asked about how "modernist notions of flatness and respecting the picture plane’s integrity benefit [her] work," Grossman responds: "I believe it is another way to present ‘near and far’ without the conventions of perspective, which is a concept and not at all how

Larry Groff interviews painter Peri Schwartz on the occasion of her recent exhibition at Gallery NAGA in Boston. Asked about her most recent work, Schwartz comments: "My new work uses the same elements that have been my subject for almost twenty years. The difference is that in the early Studio paintings it looked more like

Larry Groff interviews painter Richard Raiselis. Raiselis comments: " I often say that I paint what I see. I do my best to paint the differences that I perceive where colors touch, both inside a form, like the change of color on the sunny and shady sides of a house; and outside the form, like

Larry Groff interviews painter Donald Beal whose work will be on view in On the Shoulder of Giants, curated by Thaddeus Radell, at Westbeth Gallery, New York, on view through March 25, 2017. Beal comments: "The paintings done from life have given me the chops I need to meaningfully push color and tone around until

Larry Groff interviews painter Joan Wadleigh Curran. Curran remarks: "I think of my approach as a kind of hybrid involving careful description that incorporates still life and a kind of portraiture. I find objects seductive and hope for a kind of animism in how I paint them. I am particularly interested in the power of

Larry Groff interviews painter Susan Abbott. Abbott remarks: "I used to go back and forth on trying to figure out how to construct my paintings. It felt like a very big philosophical issue to me, and was exhausting (much more so than the actual painting) to try to decide whether there was a right and

Larry Groff interviews painter Derek Buckner whose work was recently on view at George Billis Gallery, New York. Buckner notes: "... one of the reasons I am drawn to the industrial landscape is because it is visually different than what we see in our usual urban surroundings. The trucks are different, the structures are different,

Larry Groff interviews painter Grant Drumheller whose work will be on view at the Prince Street Gallery, New York from December 1 - 29, 2016. Drumheller remarks: "The notion of making a painting is the farthest thing from my mind. I want a painting experience! Even when I am painting a small image, the beginning

Larry Groff interviews painter Ying Li on the occasion of her exhibition Geographies at Haverford College, on view through October 7, 2016. Li comments: "I think these two are really one thing; they’re so tied together, looking out and then looking in on the canvas. I try to make that switch as short as possible

On the occasion of his upcoming exhibition at Prince Street Gallery, New York ( July 29 - August 16), Larry Groff writes about his new paintings and his career as a painter. Groff notes: "To me great landscape painting is abstract painting that also has a structure and is intrinsically bound to certain visual restrictions.

Larry Groff blogs images from a "a rare show in Alba, Italy of Giorgio Morandi's Landscapes where some 70 landscape paintings were shown." In addition to the landscape paintings, Groff also includes an interesting image of Morandi's view finder. Giorgio Morandi: The Essence of Landscape, curated by Maria Cristina Bandera was on view at the