An interview with Sam King and Christopher Lowrance, co-curators of Tenses of Landscape, an exhibition of 19 contemporary painters whose work is influenced by landscape.
In his new paintings, George Hofmann accepts the challenge to paint what he calls the “unedited and torrential, pixellated, flickering, backlit, and instantaneous” nature of contemporary culture, with the realization that the rich tradition of painting is his best ally.
Expanding the visual field is one of the essential innovations of the New York School. Yet, 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.
[VIDEO] Nick Miller: Yard, is on view at Rubicon Gallery, Dublin through October 27, 2012. This exhibition features Miller's final Truckscape paintings, landscapes painted from the back of a truck that Miller converted to a studio in 2007.
A video interview and studio visit with painter Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009). Hammersley discusses his general thoughts on painting as well as the specifics and development of his practice, including what he calls painting by "hunch" or intuition.
In a video interview, painter Judy Glantzman discusses her work and her idea of art. She notes her interest in "the combination of a kind of a contrivance and a kind of truth - truth and contrivance simultaneously - that's what I think of as art… when I mean true, it's that I am not conscious of what my painting is going to look like, I'm more engaging in a relationship…"
via: The New Criterion
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via: Hyperallergic
via: Whitehot Magazine
