Painter's Bread
Michael Rutherford interviews Los Angeles-based painter Michael Dopp about his work and studio process. Dopp notes: "I usually spend some of my time working on something that is very deliberate and planned out, while also having works in the studio which are filled with accidents and incidentals. And somehow, maybe just through an imagined osmosis
Franklin Einspruch reviews the recent exhibition Lois Dodd: Naked Ladies, Natural Disasters, and Puzzling Events, Both Real and Imagined at Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine. Einspruch writes: "Over the decades, [Dodd's] subject has varied from still lifes to burning houses to whimsical scenarios involving nudes, but her method operates within narrow confines. She'll impose strong designs,
Charley Parker blogs about French "outsider artist" and painter Augustin Lesage (1876-1954). After voices told him to paint at age 14, Lesage, Parker writes, "began with 'automatic drawing', a practice the Surrealists employed to produce art directly form the subconscious, but one also associated with communicating with the departed by spiritualists. He moved from there
Valerie Brennan interviews painter Guy Yanai about his work and process. Yanai says "In the beginning, I'm certain that the painting/s will take a week to do, and somehow that's never the case. They get layered with opposing languages, images, and conceptions. And that begins another round of excitement. An excitement of how painting needs
Rebecca Harp profiles painter Fausto Pirandello (1899-1975). Along with posting a large image gallery of Pirandello's paintings, she writes, "Pirandello's approach into different layers of reality, while also focusing on the mundane behind closed doors, strikes deep chords ..."
Installation images with text from Nicholas O'Brien about a new collaborative mural by Frank Stella & Santiago Calatrava Mural Collaboration entitled The Michael Kohlhaas Curtain recently on view at the Neue Nationalgalerie. O'Brien writes: "The neon colors of the 98 foot mural immediately jump out and clash against the surrounding stoic tones, while the gridded
Mark Dylan Sieber blogs about the watercolors of 'outsider' artist Charles Dellschau. Sieber writes that 40 years after Dellschau's death "a student discovered over a dozen notebooks, each filled with his vibrant watercolors of imaginary zeppelins and dirigibles, crafted into collages with newspaper clippings and photographs. Years later, an unlikely researcher and UFO enthusiast would
Larry Groff interviews painter Emil Robinson about his work. Robinson says: "All painting is always an invention. Artists make decisions that build on one another until the reach something new. In the beginning, I always have ideas about how something will go. The only way the painting is ever successful is if it becomes something
Magdalen Chua blogs about the exhibition Ingrid Calame at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh on view through October 9, 2011. Chua writes: "Though emerging as paintings with energetic and abstract shapes, Calame's works evolve from a painstaking process that originates from the representation of cracks and stains of the physical environment... the tenor of the
Paul Behnke photoblogs a studio visit with Memphis-based painter Hamlett Dobbins. Dobbins says of his work: " ... there are times when we are gripped with a whole-body pleasure, a spine thrill of delight when time seems to slow and we are hyper-present. I am trying to understand what it is about these extraordinary experiences
Allison Meier writes about Kim Dorland's paintings of his wife Lori on view at Mike Weiss Gallery, New York through August 27, 2011. Meier writes: "I was overwhelmed with the aggression of the paintings... The human form is not carefully studied, but attacked out of the paint. I was shocked that works so savage were
Joey Veltkamp blogs about the recent work of painter Alexander Kroll. Writing about Kroll's previous work Veltkamp notes: "The paintings had a tension, as if trapped under a cage of his thick, geometric paint strokes." Recently, Veltkamp continues, "Kroll removed the cage and opened everything up... The new paintings have less of his previous impasto
James Kalm video blogs a visit to the recent exhibition Georg Baselitz The Early Sixties at Michael Werner Gallery. Kalm's "... walkthrough provides views of some of seminal paintings, and drawings that mark the artist's transition from Abstract-Expressionism to a new figuration."
Andy Parkinson blogs about Mali Morris' painting Angel and People (1979). He notes: " ...there is both quick physical action and slow meditative looking somehow preserved in the picture. Would it be too fanciful to suggest that there is a dialectic of doing and thinking that is transformed into the experience of viewing?"
Steven Alexander blogs about Will Barnet's consistently inspiring abstract paintings. Alexander notes that "there is no doubt still plenty of fertile ground to be cultivated creating dynamic arrangements of organic shapes with paint on canvas. The most inspiring example I know is Will Barnet, who turned 100 this year. Probably best known for his elegantly
Caleb de Jong reviews the exhibition Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum on view at the Met through October 10, 2011. De Jong writes: "Aside from sexual innuendo, moralism and paid for hire portraits (like the jewel compression on display in Petrus Scriverius and its pendant Anna Van der Aar) certain paintings illuminate a humane
Lisa Pressman photoblogs a studio visit with painter Fran Shalom. Shalom writes of her work "My works balance the formal with the playful, paring down shapes and ideas into their most basic forms. It is a search for clarity and humor... But, like life itself, there is an undercurrent of conflict beneath the whimsy, as
[VIDEO] Robin Greenwood and curator Nicholas Cullinan engage in a lively debate on the juxtaposition of works Cy Twombly and Nicolas Poussin while on a private tour of the exhibition Twombly and Poussin: Arcadian Painters. The exhibition is on view at the Dulwich Picture Gallery through September 25, 2011.
Bean Gilsdorf reviews Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage at the Berkeley Art Museum on view through November 27, 2011. Gilsdorf notes that "Schwitters' hallmark was hybridity... He was associated with and influenced by many movements, including Dada, Futurism, Cubism, and Constructivism, appropriating what he thought useful or provocative from each and synthesizing it with fragments
Interview with painter Julia Schwartz about her work and studio practice. Schwartz notes: "It is very rare for me to start with a conscious idea or concept. That said, I have the feeling that much of the time that I'm out in the world, I'm taking things in that are then going to go into